{"id":40861,"date":"2026-01-31T23:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=40861"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:32:12","slug":"stephen-a-smith-says-the-ice-agent-in-minnesota-acted-completely-justified-under-the-law-in-the-womans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=40861","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith says the ICE agent in Minnesota acted \u201ccompletely justified\u201d under the law in the woman\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith\u2019s comments cut straight into America\u2019s deepest fault line: what we accept as \u201clegal\u201d versus what we recognize as \u201cright.\u201d He concedes the ICE officer will almost certainly avoid prosecution, arguing the shooting fits the narrow confines of lawful use of force. But he refuses to let that be the end of the story, asking why a woman had to be killed when other options were possible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\"><\/div>\n<p>Around him, the narrative fractures. ICE claims the SUV was a weapon; witnesses and the mayor call that story a lie. The federal government praises \u201cproper training\u201d; a 37\u2011year\u2011old is dead in a crashed car. Smith stands in that tension, insisting both that she was wrong to flee and that her life still mattered. His final judgment is haunting: if this is what the law protects, then it is not just criminals who are becoming lawless, but the system itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith\u2019s comments cut straight into America\u2019s deepest fault line: what we accept as \u201clegal\u201d versus what we recognize as \u201cright.\u201d He concedes the ICE officer&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stephen A. 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