‘What ghouls are justifying this?’: Joe outraged by claims shooting victim was a domestic terrorist
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Those are law enforcement officers being physically attacked. |
| 0:06.0 | By this standard, would any of those officers being justified in shooting and killing the people causing them physical harm? |
| 0:13.0 | Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on. |
| 0:18.0 | But they know that when people are putting hands on them, |
| 0:25.8 | when they are using weapons against them, when they are physically harming them, that they have the authority to arrest those individuals. |
| 0:27.9 | The president pardoned every single one of those people. |
| 0:30.7 | And make sure that they're getting justice for their actions going forward. |
| 0:34.4 | President Trump pardoned every single one of those people. |
| 0:36.2 | And every single one of these investigations comes in the full context of the situation on the ground. |
| 0:43.7 | Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome pressed yesterday on the apparent double standard |
| 0:48.8 | for Capitol police officers during the January 6th riot and ICE agents currently on the ground in U.S. |
| 0:56.0 | cities. |
| 0:57.0 | It depends on the situation on the ground. |
| 0:57.8 | Well, does that mean it's okay if police officers have the hell beaten out of them because |
| 1:05.1 | they buy into a bullshit conspiracy theory? |
| 1:08.7 | I don't see that in police regulations. I don't see that in |
| 1:14.0 | ICE regulations. I don't see that in any regulations in Washington, D.C., but people that were |
| 1:20.3 | beating the hell out of police officers, people who are found guilty by a jury of their peers for beating the hell out of police officers |
| 1:31.7 | on January 6th, pardon. |
| 1:35.9 | Noam is now sending more federal officers to Minneapolis as protests continue there in response |
| 1:43.0 | to the deadly shooting of Renee Good last week by an ICE agent. |
| 1:48.2 | And while the Trump administration is trying to crack down on protests at home, President Trump is showing support for demonstrators in the Middle East amid growing unrest across Iran. |
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