Dave Matthews: I Don't Want My Taxes Dollars Paying for "Masked Thugs" in ICE [View all]

Source: Consequence

Dave Matthews says he doesn’t want “my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart.”

The singer-songwriter shared an impassioned rebuke of ICE and the Trump administration following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this past week. “We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn’t be, you know, throwing people to the ground,” the Dave Matthews Band frontman said in a video posted to Instagram on Friday.

“Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good. Murdered in front of her fellow citizens in Minneapolis, murdered in the streets. And no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos,” Matthews continued. “Maybe if they show you one and they slow it down and they tell you where to look, you might think, maybe there’s a chance, maybe there’s a chance. That the gunman was felt threatened. But from most angles, near and far, it looks like she was trying to get away, and he shot her three times in the head, murdered in cold blood.”

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Read more: https://consequence.net/2026/01/dave-matthews-ice-masked-thugs/

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Instagram video with his full statement in the article at that link.

My GD thread with the same complete video from Facebook and Threads:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220926862

There are other GD threads with a small part of Matthews' statement from YouTube Shorts and X. The links I've posted from his Meta accounts have the full video.