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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference in New York.<\/span>Yuki Iwamura\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kristi Noem<\/span> spent Sunday defending the actions of ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Ren\u00e9e Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week. The Trump administration, she asserted, was fully committed to ensuring that laws are enforced evenhandedly.<\/p>\n But it quickly became clear that wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n During the Sunday interview<\/a> on CNN\u2019s State of the Union<\/em>, the Secretary of Homeland Security reiterated the Trump administration\u2019s position on the shooting, insisting that Good had supposedly been \u201cbreaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.\u201d Noem repeated the extremely dubious allegation that Good had \u201cweaponized\u201d her vehicle to \u201cattack\u201d Ross in \u201can act of domestic terrorism.\u201d And she said that Good had \u201charassed\u201d law enforcement at additional locations throughout the morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThese officers were doing their due diligence\u2014what their training had prepared them to do\u2014to make sure they were handling it appropriately,\u201d Noem insisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n But when anchor Jake Tapper played video of the January 6 insurrection, Noem struggled to explain how Trump\u2019s mass pardons for the Capitol rioters could be reconciled with the administration\u2019s current support for federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on,\u201d she said<\/a>, without directly mentioning the Capitol attack. \u201cBut they know that when people are putting hands on them, when they are using weapons against them, when they\u2019re physically harming them, that they have the authority to arrest those individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n