{"id":17493,"date":"2026-01-09T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-minneapolis-shooting-appears-to-be-self-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:46:50","slug":"mike-johnson-says-minneapolis-shooting-appears-to-be-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-says-minneapolis-shooting-appears-to-be-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson says Minneapolis shooting appears to be ‘self-defense’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Friday there needs to be “a full investigation” into the shooting death of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent while asserting that the officer was “operating in self-defense.”<\/p>\n

Johnson said he understood many people on social media, including “elected officials,” are commenting on the video of the shooting. “But we all understand there has to be a full investigation,” he added. “That’s the appropriate thing. That will happen.”<\/p>\n

Johnson quickly added it “appears to us that the officer involved was operating in self-defense” and “he made a snap judgment, as they do.” <\/p>\n

He also mentioned reports that the ICE officer responsible for the shooting had been involved an incident last year where he had been dragged by a car and injured<\/a> and thus had reason to think his life “was in danger.”<\/p>\n

“We’ll have to see,” Johnson said, referring to the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Friday there needs to be “a full investigation” into the shooting death of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent while asserting that the officer was “operating in self-defense.” Johnson said he understood many people on social media, including “elected officials,” are commenting on the video of the shooting. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}