JD Vance on Friday shared a new video of the deadly shooting of a Minnesota mom at the hands of a federal agent, and what is even more troubling than watching an American citizen get killed for the crime of her partner disrespecting that officer is that the vice president of the United States believes that, somehow, the footage has some exculpatory value.

It does not.

What it shows is that the victim was polite, telling the masked agent that she is not mad at him, and that he curses at her after having fired the deadly shots.

Of course, we also know that his brush with her car, which the victim was trying to move out of the way as instructed, caused no significant injury, and that any claims that he acted in self-defense are ludicrous since all shots were fired after the front of the vehicle had cleared him.

It’s not our place to call this murder, which seems like a stretch, or homicide. That should be up to prosecutors and, ultimately, a jury – even though it appears as though the Trump administration seems to be determined not to let that happen.

Here is what we do know: If the Capitol Police had been as trigger-happy on January 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed Congress and actually assaulted cops, then that insurrection would have ended in a bloodbath.

And we know that the president’s supporters are hypocrites for calling the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot while in the process of committing a crime, “murder” while somehow justifying the killing of Renee Good on Wednesday.

As a reminder, more than 140 Capitol Hill Police officers suffered actual injuries on January 6.

They would have been justified to fear for their lives and use deadly force… certainly more than Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who violated protocol by walking in front of a running vehicle.

Let’s also not forget that the White House on Tuesday tried to rewrite the history of January 6 by blaming the Capitol Police for “escalating tensions.”

And it’s absolutely insane that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls what happened in Minnesota “domestic terrorism” while the administration refers to the pro-Trump mob as peaceful patriots.

A woman who is recording (and perhaps even impeding) government agents with a well-documented history of doing their jobs overly aggressively (to put it mildly) is not a “terrorist,” and, no matter what Vance and others seem to think, she does not deserve to be killed.

The fact that this is even in dispute shows that the country has problems that go way beyond releasing masked goons on the public and letting them know that they don’t have to fear any count of accountability, even if they kill Americans.