Piers Morgan Uncensored - ‘‘Keep Your Fat Ass At HOME!” ICE Shooting With Nick Shirley & Adam Carolla

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

Millions around the world have been divided after viewing the distressing footage of an ICE agent fatally opening fire on 37-year-old mother Renee Good. Many think the officer’s perspective was the ...proof they needed that Good was in the wrong. But it does seem clear that both citizen and officer made mistakes. Many in the administration have called her a ‘domestic terrorist’ - but either way, she was the mother of a young boy, and did not deserve to die. Piers Morgan discusses the incident with YouTuber Nick Shirley, senior counsel with the Article 3 Project, Will Chamberlain, journalist and commentator, Geraldo Rivera and The Bulkwark commentator Tim Miller plus interviews Adam Carolla. Piers Morgan Uncensored is proudly independent and supported by: Mando: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code PIERS at https://shopmando.com! #mandopod Veracity Selfcare: Visit https://VeracitySelfCare.co & use code PIERS for up to 45% off your order! Cozy Earth: Start the New Year with real comfort. Go to https://cozyearth.com/PIERS for up to 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I think everybody made a mistake in this situation, but only one person got executed. I'm a lawyer. I've been trained. I've read a lot about the law of self-defense. This was the most obvious self-defense shoot I've seen in quite some time. Really? She's barely moving to a grocery store parking lot, Will. How do you get out of Walmarts without shooting somebody? Women have been sort of weaponized. There's women screaming, shoot me, shoot me at ICE officers. They're physically fighting with these people. You're 48, you're morbidly obese, and you're not armed and you have no training.
Starting point is 00:00:37 So they'll just knock you over. Hello, we'd like to ask where the money's going. What was this money spent on me? Tim Walts got caught red-handed. He could have stopped the fraud a long time ago. For that reason, he's decided not to run for re-election. Many millions of people around the world have now seen the distressing footage of an ICE agent fatally opening fire on 37-year-old René Good. As every new detail emerges, the wildly opposing views on what happened
Starting point is 00:01:03 to become only further entrenched. For many whose impulse is to defend law enforcement wherever possible, this video of the officer's perspective was the proof they needed that René Good was in the wrong. Anybody who says they know definitively what was going on in either of their minds is lying. But it does seem clear that both made mistakes. Officers are trained not to stand in a vehicle's path and to not shoot at moving vehicles. René Good should have been obstructing the road. and she shouldn't have ignored the very clear instruction she was given.
Starting point is 00:01:32 But she's not a domestic terrorist, as many in the Trump administration, have tried to say. She's the mother of a young boy, and she didn't surely deserve to die. It's easy to be an expert after the fact, and this was clearly an emotional and chaotic few seconds for both of the people involved. The officer broke the law, the law should still be enforced. George Floyd and BLM led to ways of total insanity in the United States. Right now, looks like people on both sides of the argument have learned, well, pretty much nothing at all. We'll be debating all that with journalism commentator Haralda Rivera, Will Chamberlain, Senior Council with the Article III project,
Starting point is 00:02:06 Tim Miller, commentator with the ballwalk. And first I'll be speaking to Nick Shirley, the YouTuber whose work on alleged Somali fraud has prompted the federal investigations. Nick Shirley, welcome to our sensitive. Thank you, Pierce. How's it gone? Good. I mean, when you... Listen, all due respect, I'd never heard of you until about two weeks ago,
Starting point is 00:02:24 and then suddenly you're the guy who's made a video watched by about 140 million people. First of all, what's that been like for you? Yeah, it's been interesting. I've been doing YouTube making these documentary style of journalism videos for a very long time now for over two years. And so, and I've known about this fraud happening for a while. And so when I was able to meet up with the man by the name of David in that video to go out and investigate the fraud,
Starting point is 00:02:49 I obviously resonated with a lot of people knowing that fraud is happening here inside the United States and that we were able to show it open and blatantly for the people to see. You have, I believe, I believe, part two coming out imminently. What can you tell me about what's in that? Yeah, so the daycare fraud is only, it's only one part of the fraud. There's a lot of more fraud that's happening in Minnesota,
Starting point is 00:03:11 especially with these companies called non-emergency medical transportation vehicle companies that kind of uphold a lot of the frauds, so that way these companies and they're able to continue getting money with these welfare programs. You've been criticized by a lot of people and praised by a lot of people, Tim Walts, Minnesota's Democratic governor,
Starting point is 00:03:32 announced he wouldn't seek re-election in the aftermath of your video going so viral. In the days before the announcement, he said you were, he said, Ms. On X, a far-right YouTuber, a delusional conspiracy theorist, but then he made his own announcement
Starting point is 00:03:48 about not seeking re-election. What's your message to Tim Walts? Yeah, I think Tim Walts got caught, red-handed. He's known about the fraud since 2019. been saying he's been fighting fraud for that long. He's even said that organized crimes happening is a fault for a lot of the stuff that's happening inside Minnesota. And so he could have stopped the fraud a long time ago. And he knew about the fraud for a very long time. So for me to go there
Starting point is 00:04:15 and with one day show the fraud happening openly for everyone to see, obviously Tim Waltz, he got caught. And for that reason, he's decided not to run for re-election. You've had people in mainstream media being quite sneering about you and your journalism. But conversely, do you think mainstream media has failed the American people by not doing the very kind of thing that you were doing in this video? Yeah, 100%. Everyone else had the opportunity as well to go and make this video and go talk to the people and hear what a lot of people were messaging me about this fraud.
Starting point is 00:04:53 That's why I went and did the video. because that's what Minnesotans wanted me to do. I had received thousands of messages beforehand. Have you had a bad reaction in terms of people threatening you since this? Yeah, I mean, obviously, when you expose fraud, a lot of the fraudsters are going to be upset, and then it turned into a race and political issue. And I was just going to show fraud that was taking place.
Starting point is 00:05:17 This was never meant to be a right or left issue. It was just to show that fraud is happening, and that fraud is bad. and then you see how it becomes a race and political issue, and that was never the intention of the video. One of the things that's happened is that a lot of people have come out and they kind of tarred the whole Somali community
Starting point is 00:05:36 with the same brush of being frosted. That's upset a lot of people in that community who are not criminally minded. What do you feel about that? Yeah, it's tough because the fraud that's happening in Minnesota, 89% of the fraud that is happening is from Somalians. And so that's just a fact about the issue is that a lot of the fraud being committed is by Somalians.
Starting point is 00:05:58 There's also a white woman who was in charge of feeding our future, who's locked up in prison. And then you also had a man who got convicted in charge of $7.2 million in Medicaid fraud, but a white liberal judge let him walk and reversed that. So you're seeing how this political correctness has enabled this fraud to happen. What do you feel, we're going to bring the rest of the panel in in a moment,
Starting point is 00:06:20 But this video of the ICE officer shooting René Good, we've all had a chance to watch this from multiple angles now for the last week. What is your view about what happened? Yeah, it's super sad. And I've gone to these protests. I've talked to these people. And she put herself in a position where the officer was duty-bound to protect himself as well. The officer obviously doesn't want to feel like his life's in threat.
Starting point is 00:06:46 And she shouldn't be putting the officer's life in threat. and do I think he should have shot her? I don't know. I'm not in the position of the officer, but like I said, he's duty-bound to protect himself, and she shouldn't have put herself in that position. She knew what she was doing. She was impeding a federal law enforcement investigation.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Would you actually think she was trying to run him down? I do. If you watch the video, she was obviously aiming towards there, and there was even a moment before where she hit the gas and the tire didn't catch tread. Who knows what would have happened if the tires did catch tread and she was able to do it.
Starting point is 00:07:21 And her girlfriend was saying, drive, baby, drive. But that could be just to get away rather than run anybody over. Yeah, that could be. But if you watch the video, her tires are aimed at the officer and she hit the gas and luckily her tread did not catch beforehand as well. Okay, just bringing the rest of the panel, you're going to stay with us, Nate. Tim Miller, this has been an unbelievably divisive story. You know, my view is having watched this many times now
Starting point is 00:07:51 from every possible angle, is that everybody involved made mistakes, but that ultimately that woman should not have been shot dead and no one can persuade me otherwise. I do not believe the videos collectively showed her deliberately trying to run anybody over. And in fact, her demeanour prior to this happening a few seconds earlier is the convert.
Starting point is 00:08:16 of being confrontational. So there's no suggestion there that she had any malicious intent towards running people over, and yet she's dead. What's your view of this? Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't know what Nexus was looking at if he thought that she was aiming for him. I agree with you, peers. I think everybody made a mistake in this situation,
Starting point is 00:08:38 but only one person got executed. And so I think we should look into why that was and what happened there and just be honest about what happened. happened. He greeted the officer, Jonathan Ross, had seen her, as you mentioned, 20 seconds before he shot her. And she said to him, that's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you. She was smiling. He could see into the car. There's a dog in the back seat. There are children's toys in the passenger seat of the car. And then he walks around to the front. She's backing up. And as she starts to move away, this car is moving like two miles an hour. It's not moving any faster than any car does
Starting point is 00:09:16 at any grocery store parking lot anywhere in America. The wheel is clearly pointing away, moving away for him. And then he shoots her, not just one time, but then he shoots her a second time and a third time through the side window. When he fires the third shot, he's completely to the side of the car. He's not at any danger at all. And so I just don't see how anybody could see this
Starting point is 00:09:40 and think that this person legitimately felt like his life was in danger. I'd also note that he has a couple colleagues. that are standing there. None of them pulled their weapon. None of them thought, seemed to think his life was in danger. And then after the car with the dead driver goes away, he walks to it easily.
Starting point is 00:09:58 And he calls her a fucking bitch. So I just look, I think this is a very clear situation. I think everybody trying to make this complicated or trying to say she tried to kill him. They either are just intentionally spinning for the administration because they're hacks. or like maybe they're just very easily scared individuals who I don't know how you would get through life
Starting point is 00:10:20 by thinking that somebody in that situation was going to kill themselves. It was in danger of it. Well, let me bring in Will Chamberl who says nonsense. Why do you say that? New Year is all about starting afresh and today's sponsor will help you to do exactly that. Mando whole body deodorant is created by doctors
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Starting point is 00:11:25 Basically, every way that Tim characterized that was just unbelievably uncharitable to the police officer who clearly shot in self-defense. He was directly in front of the vehicle when Ms. Good hit the accelerator. Now, maybe she was going to continue turning, but maybe she wasn't. He was two feet in front of it. And that woman had justified a lawful order to be detained. I mean, we have to understand before this happened. And that's not, again, not to say that she deserved to be shot.
Starting point is 00:11:53 This execution thing is so frivolous because it's not about her being given punishment for her actions. It's about her creating the scenario in which another person felt a reasonable fear of deadly injury. Well, she committed multiple felonies in this context, parking car in the middle of the road, obstructing a law enforcement investigation. And then finally, this aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a car is not a trivial thing. And, I mean, you think about police stops
Starting point is 00:12:20 all over the country. The primary danger is people fleeing in their vehicles which are two tons of metal coming at them. And it's also not just self-defense. It's defense of others as well. There's a person hanging on the side of the car right there who could easily be dragged along. But Will, you and I had an exchange on X
Starting point is 00:12:37 about whether this constitutes domestic terrorism. I think that's such a ridiculous phrase to use about what we've all witnessed with our own eyes here. She's not a domestic terrorist. She wasn't trying to commit an act of terrorism against this ICE officer. Now, I happen to think that what may be a key part of this is that it emerged that six months earlier, the same ICE officer had been dragged by a car in a similar situation, hundreds of yards and have suffered injuries and probably a lot of trauma. Right? We don't know how much trauma, but how much was that playing on his mind when he's there?
Starting point is 00:13:14 He's ignored his training, which is the ICE officers should not be standing in front of a car in that situation, nor should they fire at a moving vehicle. That's what they're trained not to do. That last part is certainly incorrect when you are allowed to fire at a moving vehicle in self-defense or in defense of others. Right. If you genuinely think your life is in danger, right? Now, the question, so the question is, that's not. I'm sorry. How does firing at a moving vehicle make you more safe? This doesn't even make sense, Pierce.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Again, she's barely moving. If you shoot someone, as we saw with that car, if you shoot someone driving the car, they're going to lean forward and press on the gas. It makes it look dangerous. The point I'm making, the point I'm making is we don't know what was in anyone's minds. I think it's quite likely that what was in the mind of this ICE officer is what happened to him six months earlier, right?
Starting point is 00:14:08 and it may be that he panicked because he feared the same thing happening again. I'm not excusing or justifying what he did. I'm explaining what may end up being one of the factors involved in it. It doesn't seem to me to be irrelevant that the same guy was dragged by a car and could potentially have been killed in that incident six months earlier. Well, my point is... Everybody is ignoring the original sin. Hold on a second. I've been spoken yet.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Everybody is ignoring the original sin, which was to use a brigade-sized deployment of paramilitary forces to presumably or reportedly, or the pretense was, to go after the worst of the worst of the criminal aliens. Did that happen? Absolutely not. What happened instead? You had this deployment of these masked desperadoes. 2,000 strong, descending on the community with attitude. There was hostility on both sides from the get-go. And what in the world are paramilitary forces doing, enforcing immigration law to begin with? This was a bait and switch. This was using the specter of immigration. I'm surprised they didn't bring in transgender, you know, transgender.
Starting point is 00:15:36 aliens. This was absolutely a fraud. This was a catastrophic failure. What did they get for all this, aside from the dead Renee Good, the dead woman? What did they get? They say they arrested 500 or detained 500 undocumented immigrants so far in this operation in Minneapolis, in the Twin Cities. 500. How many of the 500 were the worst of the worst? Is it not a fact that 70% of the American people oppose the way this deployment has gone down. The Trump administration set the stage for this catastrophe, this tragedy to happen. The southern border peers, as you pointed out correctly, has been sealed now for months. There's zero influx of undocumented immigrants. So if the, supply of the problem has been cut off, isn't it time now for President Trump?
Starting point is 00:16:35 to use some common sense and some compassion, for God's sakes. Some compassion. Can I respond? Yeah, well, you respond. Yeah. First, I mean, is there some list of federal laws that federal authorities are not allowed to enforce? You should probably inform them of that. I think that's a little bit ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:16:51 And second, if we're going to go to a poll. What are you talking nonsense? You're talking nonsense. You're basically saying the federal government's not allowed to enforce immigration law because you actually need to bring in large numbers of people to obtain people. They are allowed to enforce immigration laws. What they are not allowed to is to impose a police, with attitudes and long guns.
Starting point is 00:17:06 When did you see masks? If you want to know who's at fault for that, it's the sanctuary jurisdictions. When did you see mask cops? I don't know how much police work you've done. I've done a lot for the last over 50 years. You don't bring masked, heavily armed SWAT team, effectively SWAT team or Delta Force,
Starting point is 00:17:23 a kind of combatants into a situation where the problem is undocumented immigration. If that's the problem, you go and you pursue the normal, ordinary, reasonable, prudent ways of dealing with the social problem. It's immigration. As I said, the supply has been cut off of immigrants. Now is the time. What about the dreamers the kids brought here at an early age who've been here and committed no crime?
Starting point is 00:17:51 Isn't it time for them to get? I think that you're not far afield. This is the issue undocumented immigration? Isn't that what you're talking about? Illegal aliens, so called? Isn't that what we're talking about? They're masked. They're masked because the radical left in Antifa cops are never masked. State troopers are never masked. And if you're mad about the policy question, can I just make this point? If you're mad about the policy problem, which is the fact that the administration needs to send in militarized forces, forces that are ready for responses, that's because Minnesota has sanctuary state policies and doesn't cooperate with detaining criminal aliens. In other states, they don't need to send in Bortak to detain people. What's the rush? Because they did it here in New Orleans will, supply as well. It's the Minnesota state authorities that are responsible for creating dangerous situations like the one that happened in Minneapolis.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Okay, but, no, I, Geraldo, we can, obviously, none of this is irrelevant. But in terms of the actual incident itself, what do you feel about what happened there? In my heart of heart, and remember, I've covered every war in Central America, every war in Middle East, Afghanistan, 11 assignments, Iraq, 11 assignments. I've seen guns and guns and firing, and you know when to use your gun and when you don't use your gun. That was absolutely an awful, awful mistake by those officers who aggressively sought to confront as you peers have clearly laid out. The woman in that car had presented no threatening image. Look at the car. That's the weapon.
Starting point is 00:19:30 That makes her a domestic terrorist. They car moving at two miles an hour, then five miles an hour. The wheels clearly turn to the right. Come on, I'm sick of the excuses. It's one thing to have ideology and be as conservative as you want to be. But don't make up a situation with it fails right there. When you say domestic terrorists, I covered Timothy McVeigh, 1995 Oklahoma City. You want to see a domestic terrorist?
Starting point is 00:20:00 He killed 168 American men, women and children. That's a domestic terrorist, or the Unabomber. Or Luigi Manzioni. Or any, you name them. Today's show is sponsored by Veracity and their metabolic power protein. Let's be honest, life moves fast and regular meals sometimes don't have the punch we need.
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Starting point is 00:21:13 Let me bring Nick Shirley back in here. I mean, the thing is, Nick, because of camera phones now, so much of this stuff we can analyze for ourselves, I think that when you see J.D. Vance, Donald Trump and others, and they try and tell us something that we just have. haven't seen with our own eyes. In other words, they want us to look at a video in a way that just doesn't represent what we watched. No one can convince me that what we saw there was a woman whose demeanor leading up to that
Starting point is 00:21:45 was intent on causing harm to that officer and who then wanted to run him over. I've just seen nothing that shows that. Now, if it did, I would say so. I think part of the problem with these stories is everyone takes their partisan political position to its exact. extremity immediately, almost as a defensive mechanism. In other words, the left immediately took the position right. This is obvious, clear evidence.
Starting point is 00:22:09 The ICE are a bunch of Nazis, and they murdered her in cold blood and blah, blah, blah. And then people on the right immediately go the opposite way. This woman brought it on herself. She's a radicalized left-wing lunatic. She's a lesbian. She's this. And I think all of that is wrong. All of that distorts the debate about what happened here, which is, I think,
Starting point is 00:22:30 made mistakes. She shouldn't have behaved the way that she did. He shouldn't have done what he did. It was a situation which we've watched in slow freeze frame, but actually in real time was very, very quick. And I think this guy was suffering from a little bit of trauma from what happened to him a few months earlier. And he reacted instinctively. And it may well be he genuinely did fear that he was going to get hurt. But he shouldn't have been in front of the car to start with us against their training. So all of it was governed by a series of errors. Why can't it just be that? Why can't we all just be honest about what we've watched?
Starting point is 00:23:06 Yeah, it's an ugly situation on both sides, right? You have a lady who's impeding a federal law enforcement investigation. She shouldn't be in the middle of the road. And then if you watch the body cam footage from the ICE officer, he did get hit. And that same officer had been dragged 300 feet beforehand just a few months ago. And so who of us is to say whether or not we felt like his life was at threat? Maybe he felt like his life was at threat. and therefore that's why he's shot.
Starting point is 00:23:32 And why is that lady impeding a federal law investigation in front? And has her car stopped while they're doing a targeted ice raid? And so obviously there's wrongs on both sides, but you can't justify. No one wants to see a woman get killed, but you can't also say, well, that officer was in the wrong because maybe he did think that his life was at threat. And when we watched the video, it's instantaneously. It's within a few seconds. Well, it's interesting, Tim Miller, because...
Starting point is 00:24:01 I'm sorry, Pierce. Yeah, Tim, I mean, the point I would make, Tim, is that from a purely legal perspective, put aside the morality of what happened or anything else, from a pure, lawful perspective, I suspect it's quite likely that this officer will not end up being successfully prosecuted for this. Look, that's going to be a question for a jury, peers. But at the point, look, people are on the right, a lot of... folks are praising Nick for just honesty and journalism when they felt that there was you know not honest things were being said about the daycares can we just be honest about
Starting point is 00:24:39 this like there is no way this person's life was at risk the third shot no one will just no one will address this the third shot that he shoots the third shot he is to the side of the car he shoots her through the through the driver's side window the car has already passed him and then he calls her a fucking bitch like this guy's life I wonder if I got hit by a car. You're trying to make this. And others, they try to say it's a both side saying, oh, it's a partisan. Obviously the Trumpers defend them and the never Trumpers don't.
Starting point is 00:25:08 That's not true. If you look at Tim Dillon, who's a pro-Trump podcaster, Joe Rogan just today, has said this was totally inappropriate and wrong. Pears, you know, at times you've called it both ways, but you've been friendly with Trump. You're seeing it clearly. Only 28% of the country in a recent poll said this shoot was appropriate, including only 64% of Republicans. Like, no, any 10% of independence, nobody who looks at this with open eyes can think this was justifiable.
Starting point is 00:25:37 I'm sorry, that's just the truth. Like, we should just be honest about this. Like, there is no reason to kill that woman with her kids' toys in the passenger seat. Well, well, Timlin, why do you say Timbiller's making matters? Well, he's essentially accusing all of us of bad faith. Like, I'm a lawyer. I've been trained. I've read a lot about the law of self-defense.
Starting point is 00:25:57 This was the most obvious self-defense shoot. I've seen in quite some time. Really? And the idea. Come on. Really? Absolutely. He's directly in front of the car, two feet in front of the car.
Starting point is 00:26:07 And she's barely moving to a grocery store parking lot, Will. How do you get out of Walmart without shooting somebody? I'm hoping you're not carrying a weapon when you're going through the grocery store parking lot. Because every day across the country, people are more scared than this guy. This is crazy. Offer arrests by police officers? Is this like the normal thing on the left now? Like, apparently like you guys are all for law enforcement until it comes time to actually enforce the law.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Hey, Will, I have a question for you. How many people do you think should have been murdered on January 6th? How many people do you think the Capitol Police should have killed that day? How many people should have killed? I don't think that have killed anybody in the sense that I don't think Renee Good should have been killed. But I actually think the Ashley Babbit in this very analogous. Because how many just like Renee could have been killed?
Starting point is 00:26:51 No, I'm asking you, how many justifiably could have been killed on January 6th? So did Ashley Babbit. She committed felonies. Well, I think, well, I think, well, will. But Will, the argument you and I had will was about this phrase domestic terrorism. And I made the point, which other people had raised anyway, which is, you know, that was on January the 6th. By that criteria, by that criteria, you could argue that everyone that was violent that day was a domestic terrorist. Would you agree with that?
Starting point is 00:27:17 You think they were? Yes, I agree. I think I have a broader view of domestic terrorism than apparently you do. The use of violence or the threat of violence for political ends in this kind of. is domestic terrorism. And by that definition, both Renee Good and Ashley Babbitt were domestic terrorists. I have no problem saying that.
Starting point is 00:27:34 I don't think that applies to the people who were peacefully walking through the Capitol, for instance. That's not violence. But anybody who tried to swing at a cop on January 6th, yeah, that's domestic terrorism. I said that on that day. All right, Haraldo, what do you feel, I mean, we've discussed the domestic terrorism part.
Starting point is 00:27:50 But we are living in a weird time where we all watch the same video, and yet many people, can have completely different interpretations of what they're watching. And I fear a lot of it, I'm not saying this about Will, only you know, but I'm not disputing that you'll say what you're saying
Starting point is 00:28:10 in good faith. But I think so many people now do say stuff in bad faith. They will see something, and if it doesn't suit their own sides' agenda, they will argue black is white. They just will, because that's where we've got to. And it's fueled by social media, And I also think social media is responsible for a lot of what was going on with the two women here with René Good and her partner,
Starting point is 00:28:34 where you see the partner actively goading the ICE officers all on camera as well to make itself a bit of a social media hero, perhaps. All of this is fueled by social media. But where does that leave us as a society? I think that that's an excellent question. But I think the litmus test for this particular situation or this popular situation, or this population, let me, you cannot, if you have to wear a mask when you go to work, then inherently there is dishonor in the work that you're doing. There's a reason why no law enforcement, absolutely not in the United States of America, wear masks, but for ICE agents, not even everybody
Starting point is 00:29:19 in customs and Border Patrol wear masks. It is specifically for this population. Why is that? We have to ask ourselves. Why is it that unique in all of the hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers, this cadre is mass wearing? It is because I submit they are doing work that is inherently unpopular. They said they were going after the worst of the worst. Instead, they're going after Rosa, the Baker, or Pablo, the snow shoveler. It is a cop-out. I call on the president to end it. Stop sending military units to enforce this specific law. Be patient. You have stopped the supply of undocumented immigrants into the country.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Be patient now. Go after the worst of the worst. Do police work. Get warrants. Get named warrants. Stop stopping Latinos on the street because they happen to be brown and there's a probability or possibility that they're here without proper documentation.
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Starting point is 00:31:40 who exposed the fraud in the Somali community in the Twin Cities. I thought it was really, it was gutsy, balzy, you know, street reporting. I'd like to think that that's the kind of stuff that I was doing. in the 70s and 80s and 90s. That's what I felt. A good was done, but I also submit that you guys go to any community in the country. We threw money at all of these nonprofits during COVID. We just, the president and then the first Trump and then Biden, all they wanted was the economy to stay whole during the epidemic.
Starting point is 00:32:17 They threw money at everybody. They allowed people to take wheelbarrels full of federal cash. out of the building without proper documentation or follow-up of any kind. I think that what's happening with the Somali community will be replicated from coast to coast if we have any guts in the justice. Yeah, okay. I've got to leave it there. Tim, you've got to get off. Thank you all very much indeed for a fascinating debate.
Starting point is 00:32:42 Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Well, join me now with his reaction to the shooting in Minnesota is the host of the Adam Carolla show. Adam Carolla. Adam, great to have you back on Uncensored. This is one of those stories where I saw so many people take an immediate position before anyone really knew exactly what had happened or why it may have happened
Starting point is 00:33:05 or understanding the motivations of the people involved, which is kind of a sign of a times, I guess. And then as more and more video footage emerged, people got ever more entrenched into their views. What's your view about what happened here? Well, I'm always consistent and sort of philosophical about this, which is you have to be very careful when people have guns and you don't, whether they're law enforcement, whoever they are, if a person has a gun and you don't, you probably shouldn't spit on them or threaten them in any way or do anything. And you can say, well, that's wrong. Maybe it is.
Starting point is 00:33:52 And maybe their training should be better or maybe they should be less human. But they still have a gun and you don't. So we should start just sort of based on that, whether it's a cop pulling you over or who knows. By the way, who knows? That guy could have caught his wife having an affair the night before, could have been drinking that day. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:34:16 I'm just saying people go, oh, well, the cop was wrong. I think the cop was wrong, but I still would like to see nobody get shot by cops. So for the time being, treat them like people that have guns and you don't. And it doesn't mean you can't protest and doesn't mean you can't debate. But when it starts getting into automobiles or spitting or pushing, now you're getting into a gray area where they may use. their gun. You see, I think everybody here made fundamental mistakes.
Starting point is 00:34:53 Probably based on, in the cop's case, of the ICE officer's case, a false presumption that she was trying to cause him physical harm or run him over. He might well have believed that. I think it's very relevant, as I've discussed earlier, that a few
Starting point is 00:35:08 months earlier, he was in a very similar situation as guy, and he ended up being dragged by the car for several hundred yards. I don't think irrelevant at all. I think in that moment, he may have feared the same thing was happening and may genuinely have feared for his safety, right? So who knows what was going to, but we don't really know what was going through his mind, do we? No, but what I'm saying is, is if a cop has a gun and you don't, and all of a sudden you make a quick move to grab something out of your pocket,
Starting point is 00:35:40 he may shoot you. Right. And what I'm basically saying is, don't make that quick move. Just Comply, comply, comply. Because every single one of these tragic shootings, it doesn't matter. Here in the United States, we never get tired of talking about, white cops shooting black people, motorists, and blah, blah, blah. 99.9% would be solved with compliance. I would never happen. I totally agree.
Starting point is 00:36:08 I mean, I would, I would add, as a non-American, who's put his head over the parapet on this issue many times, not entirely successfully, that the presumption by law enforcement, quite understandably, in a country with 400 million guns in circulation, is that everyone they pull over may be armed. And they don't know who they really are
Starting point is 00:36:31 or what they may do. And therefore, to your point, if you do absolutely nothing and do exactly what law enforcement tell you, then you're going to avoid a situation where any trigger movement of any kind may, in their heads, make them think there could be a gun involved or whatever,
Starting point is 00:36:49 and they have to shoot you. And also, the problem with human beings, and I mean, you can say cops, you can say training all you want, but at the end of the day, it's a human being. If you have a weapon, if I have a gun, and there's even a 2% chance you could hurt me, because people do this all the time to go,
Starting point is 00:37:10 where the cop shot the guy, well, all the guy had was a butter knife, or he's just swinging around a bowl, pulling pin or something like that. You go, if I have the gun and you don't and there's one percent chance you could hurt me, whether it's a car or a butter knife, then oftentimes the person with the gun will do it, even if the odds are greatly in their favor. Meaning they are not taking any chances.
Starting point is 00:37:35 You know, they go, was she trying to run him over? I don't think she was trying to run him over. I doesn't look like her wheels were turned. It doesn't matter. That guy has two tenths of a second to decide. whether he's trying to be run over or not, and he's the one with the gun. So do not put yourself in that position, everybody. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:54 And there are other parts of this story, like, you know, what is a young mom doing out there protesting in the way that she was doing, you know, parking the car in the middle of the road, blocking the ICE officers from doing their work and so on? It's clear from her partner who was there that this was a planned thing, a planned resistance, if you like. We don't know the full extent yet of the group they were part of and so on.
Starting point is 00:38:20 But all of these are not irrelevant aspects to this story. There is a kind of slight dementia with people towards these issues, which I think you've said this, that people go slightly nuts and they lose their natural sense of caution. Yeah, well, a couple things. So just to summarize what I've said a million times about this,
Starting point is 00:38:44 or any other shooting, any situation like this. I basically say this. You may decide that you would like to steal your neighbor's barbecue, which they keep on their back porch and use it for yourself. And nine times out of ten, you can hop over your neighbor's fence and grab his barbecue, and it'll be yours. But one time out of ten,
Starting point is 00:39:07 he may be cleaning his gun in the backyard, and you may get shot. And then people will say, the barbecue is $50. You deserve to get shot over a $50. And the answer is no. But once you jump over the fence, you're opening yourself up to that possibility.
Starting point is 00:39:25 And I'm saying don't go over the fence. That's basically. Yeah. What do you feel generally about what ICE has been doing? It's becoming incredibly divisive. It seems to me most Americans agree with what Trump has done on the southern border. They like the fact that the number of people
Starting point is 00:39:42 coming in illegal on the border has virtually reduced to nothing from the millions under Biden. I think most people don't seem to have much of a problem with people who are in America illegally to start with who then commit crimes unconnected to their status, getting deported. Most people agree with that. The real flashpoint has been the removal of people who may have come in illegally originally or come in with their families, and then they've been responsible citizens, they've got jobs, they've paid their taxes, they've bought up families, and so on, and they're being targeted by these guys in masks bashing down, you know, Home Depot doors and so on.
Starting point is 00:40:19 What do you feel about what ICE has been doing? Okay, so Biden leaving the border wide open was insane, and now there's a mess to clean up. So, you know, I don't think Trump and many supporters and people like myself, I didn't want to be in this position in the first place. But the border was left wide open. And there's many people to gather up. I totally agree that there should be a distinction between the criminal and the person that's been here, law-abiding, raising a family, so-and-so-forth. I really don't know. That subject would probably poll very badly, even amongst staunch Trump reporters, you know, supporters, I should say.
Starting point is 00:41:10 We, we, nobody that I'm aware of wants the hardworking day laborer who's been here for 15 years is raising a family taken out of the country. Now, I think in order of importance, I would like the cartel guys and the gangbangers and, you know, the human traffickers and blah, blah, blah. At some point, when that's all done, then you can get down to the people that are playing by the rules, paying their taxes, raising their children. children, so and so forth. And then we can have a discussion about what that would look like. That, to me, but to assume that everybody ICE is going after is a hardworking mother of three who's just working as a maid and has been all nonsense and BS, and that's more narrative stuff that gets cooked up by the left.
Starting point is 00:42:05 And then they go out and fight and push. and they essentially create chaos and then say they don't want chaos. So it's essentially tons of chaos saying we don't want chaos and then saying, don't you want the chaos to stop? And I'm like, yeah, I'd like the chaos to stop, but the answer isn't abolish ice. The answer is you keep your fat ass at home. Right.
Starting point is 00:42:30 Yeah, I mean, it seems to me, I also think social media is a key component to whipping up a lot of this stuff. Do you sense that we're in just very different times now? Well, so what I've been sort of drilling down on my podcast is there's so many women involved now. And women are the majority of society. I mean, you know, they're 51% or whatever it is,
Starting point is 00:42:57 but it's half. And women have been sort of weaponized. They weren't like this in the past. You go out and see the footage, there's women screaming, shoot me, shoot me at ice officers. They're physically fighting with these people, with the ice officers. Yesterday, one spat in the face of one and then got tackled. And when she was being tackled, she was yelling what's going on.
Starting point is 00:43:25 And I realized they didn't grow up with rough and tumble play. Mammels, male mammals grow up wrestling, finding limits and pressure points. And by the way, knowing who to mess with and who not to mess with. I mean, you learn that real fast by getting punched in the face when you're 13. So we get that and we can kind of govern ourselves. Women don't grow up with rough and tumble play. So they're having trouble with guidelines and limits and assessing danger. And you see it every day.
Starting point is 00:44:02 First of all they talk about is getting out and fighting and you have to, you know, I see fat middle-aged school teacher saying, ICE, if you come to my classroom, you've got to go through me first. Well, you're 48, you're morbidly obese, and you're not armed and you have no training. So they'll just knock you over. There's all these these proclamations, these narcissistic proclamations, meets a blind spot, like literally pushing vans, you know, standing in front of 5,000
Starting point is 00:44:34 pound V8 vans and leaning on the hood and trying to push it back like you have some kind of superhero strength or something. It's tons of women and tons of women who don't seem to understand what the limits are and who they're dealing with. And I think it's because they didn't grow up testing it like we did.
Starting point is 00:44:56 Well, I thought Renee Good's partner, you know, who's on video being very defiant with the ICE officers, was clearly reveling in the resistance, as she would put it. But to your point earlier, you know, had they shown zero resistance when ICE actually approached them, and had they been just model citizens and done what they were told, all of this would have almost certainly been avoided. But there was a kind of gleeful impunity,
Starting point is 00:45:26 particularly I thought from the wife on video, towards a almost like defiant. them, there's nothing you can do about us. And again, to your point, maybe it is just a, it's a modern phenomenon where they just don't understand the jeopardy that may put them in. She's got a guy who's got a gun, and she's calling him fat ass.
Starting point is 00:45:50 So that's just there alone. And you can go, oh, why are you defending these officers at them? I'm really not. I'm just saying I would like people now. I would like people not to get shot. And I would say if the other side has a gun and you're spitting on them or pushing on them
Starting point is 00:46:09 or insulting them, it ups the opportunities for you to get shot. Final question. The Golden Globes saw a number of celebrities, Wonder Sykes, Mark Ruffalo, Aaron La Grande, all wearing badges reading Be Good and Ice Out in support of René Good. Bill Maher responded by saying this. Mark Ruffalo and Wanda Sykes also wearing a B-good pin for Renee Good, obviously,
Starting point is 00:46:38 and trying to use this platform for activism. Do you feel that's effective or now? Come on. We're just here for show business today. You know, it was a terrible thing that happened, and it shouldn't have happened. And if they didn't act like such thugs, it wouldn't have had to happen. But I don't need to wear a pin about it. What did you make of that response?
Starting point is 00:47:02 Yeah, I mean, Bill's pragmatic. I think that's why he's drifting a little over to the slightly more conservative types of thoughts as the left gets loonier and nuttier. You know, he's a Democrat, he's on the left, but the left is not Bill Clinton anymore. He was, you know, Bill Maher was, you know, agreed with Bill Clinton in the 90s,
Starting point is 00:47:26 But he's not, you know, with the transgender stuff and all the lunacy and after the fires and all the climate change crap and stuff. I don't think he's willing to go that nutty. And he knows that wearing a stupid button or badge or flag or whatever you're putting on your lapel is not going to cure anything or fix anything or bring anybody back. It's all virtue signaling. And they're all idiots because there's much bigger fish to fry, much bigger problems, many more people being killed in other countries. here as well, but they're always focused on the thing that's going to bring them popularity and make them feel the best about themselves. You know what was noticeable to me?
Starting point is 00:48:05 Not a single one of them said anything about Iran and the protest is being killed in huge numbers. You could set your watch on the irony. It's really gays for Palestine. Adi Krola, great to have you back on our census. Thank you very much. Thanks, Pierce. Piers Morgan Unscensored is proudly independent. The only boss around here is me.
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