“I saw an unlawful killing,” Sunny Hostin said after ICE killed a 37-year-old Minnesota mother, while Whoopi Goldberg said “if they can do this to her, they can do it to you, too.”

The View cohosts condemn ‘awful, tragic, horrendous’ deadly ICE shooting as evidence of ‘dictatorship in the making’

"I saw an unlawful killing," Sunny Hostin said after ICE killed a 37-year-old Minnesota mother, while Whoopi Goldberg said "if they can do this to her, they can do it to you, too."

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- *The View* cohosts collectively condemned the deadly ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota.

- "If they can do this to her, they can do it to you, too," Whoopi Goldberg warned.

- Joy Behar said the shooting is evidence that America is now a "dictatorship in the making."

*The View* cohosts have joined forces to strongly condemn Wednesday's deadly ICE shooting of Minnesota mother Renee Nicole Good.

Whoopi Goldberg began Thursday's live show with a discussion about what she called a "disturbing, awful, tragic, horrendous video of an ICE agent in Minneapolis shooting and killing an American citizen, and mom of three children," before the cohosts weighed in on the news.

"It is basic law enforcement training to not step in front of a vehicle that can move because it creates an opportunity for that vehicle to become a death threat, and therefore unnecessary shootings like this," said Sara Haines, while former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin staunchly opposed the tactics used — and captured on camera — by an ICE agent who opened fire on Good's vehicle as she attempted to drive away from agents surrounding her car.

"In America, the punishment for evading law enforcement in a vehicle or on foot is not death," Griffin stressed. "The DOJ has specific guidelines that specifically say firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. The DHS' are a bit more nuanced, but it talks about de-escalation."

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin on 'The View'.

"What's most disturbing to me is this," Griffin continued, citing social media vitriol she said she witnessed moments after the shooting happened. "Within minutes of this video being published.... it felt like there was such a mad dash to confirm one's partisan opinion" to "fit their partisan narrative," Griffin observed.

"When did we become a country that a woman my age and a mother of three is killed — the facts will play out, we may learn more — but is killed and our first thought is, how do I make this a win for the party I vote with? I find it sickening the way it played out," she continued.

Joy Behar said she felt that the video is evidence of America becoming "a dictatorship in the making" and that "we are now in it" beyond questioning.

Legal expert and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin alleged that, "When I looked at the video from several different angles, I saw an unlawful killing," calling her assessment "very clear" given the videos circulating online.

"We need to be at a point in this country where we call a thing a thing and stop listening to propaganda and being Orwellian in terms of not believing what your eyes are seeing," she said, referencing right-wing reaction to the videos.

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Goldberg attempted to bring the conversation back to a relatable point, turning toward the studio crowd around her as she said, "That young lady could've been anybody in this audience. Forget color, it could've been anybody, and if they can do this to her, they can do it to you, too."

Hostin then cited a 1985 Supreme Court ruling after a police officer shot and killed a man fleeing the scene of a crime, with the case finding that "a police officer may use deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect only if the officer has a good-faith belief that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others."

The panelist summarized it as a law enforcement agent not being able to "use deadly force to shoot at a moving vehicle with an unarmed person in it," before doubling down on her assessment of it being an "unlawful killing" of an American citizen.

"When that woman went in reverse and moved away from the officers... all that officer needed to do was move out of the way," Hostin said.

** has reached out to representatives for ICE, Homeland Security, and the White House for comment.

Countering criticism lobbed at political figures defending the ICE agent, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good's driving an "act of domestic terrorism" targeted at ICE officers, claiming that Good “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him."

Donald Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that "the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense," and said that the ICE agent who shot at Good was "recovering in the hospital" despite not being struck by the car in reported footage from the scene.

A later *New York Times* report noted that Trump told reporters at the White House, "I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either."**

Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for 'The View'.

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Other celebrities have weighed in on the shooting after viewing footage of the incident that, as many said on social media, contradicts how Noem and Trump have characterized the incident. Actor Patton Oswalt posting a sardonic reply on X after Fox News host Jesse Watters mockingly pointed out that Good had "pronouns in her bio" and pointed out her "lesbian partner" and "child from a previous marriage."

"Pronouns in her bio? A POET?!?!! Why didn’t that brave ICE agent empty his full clip?" Oswalt shared on the social media site.

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Fellow *View* cohost and TV personality Ana Navarro, who wasn't at the Hot Topics table on Thursday, as she typically only appears on Mondays and Fridays, reacted to the news on social media as well.

"This is tragic. Unnecessary. A young woman was killed, leaving a 6 year-old boy, an orphan," Navarro shared on Instagram. "She was a white US citizen, who showed-up in support of her immigrant neighbors. Her name is Renee Nicole Good."

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.

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