Press Secretary Clashes with Reporter on ICE Shooting

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clashed sharply with a reporter during Thursday's briefing, accusing him of bias after he questioned the administration's handling of a fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Minneapolis. The exchange highlighted ongoing tensions over federal immigration operations in the state, which have sparked protests and a threat from President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

The confrontation arose when Niall Stanage, a columnist for The Hill, pressed Leavitt on recent statements by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that ICE agents are following protocols and doing everything correctly. Stanage cited statistics from 2025, ICE's deadliest year in two decades, including 32 deaths in custody, the detention of 170 U.S. citizens and the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent last week. "How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?" Stanage asked.

Leavitt responded by questioning why Good had been killed. When Stanage replied that an ICE agent had acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably, Leavitt labeled him a "biased reporter with a leftwing opinion" and a "leftwing...