Cline: killing Renee Good was “law enforcement engaged in enforcing the law”

In one of Congressman Cline’s frequent softball interviews with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business (he spends more time talking with her than he does with his constituents at town halls), he was asked about the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

He said:

Well, anytime you have a loss of life, it’s a tragedy. But what we have is law enforcement engaged in enforcing the law. What we need is for Americans to respect that action by law enforcement and to allow law enforcement to continue to do its job. When we see these tragedies occur, to have the governor of Minnesota inflame tensions by talking about using National Guard troops to prevent ICE from doing their job, that’s not only irresponsible and dangerous, that does cross a line.

In other words, no recognition that those who are supposed to be enforcing the law sometimes violate it in horrific ways. No recognition that by terrorizing a community, ICE is making make the people of that community less safe. No recognition that local officials have the right to protect residents from abusive and brutal behavior no matter the source.

Cline’s record of publicly justifying or silently accepting everything Trump and his functionaries do or say remains unblemished.