Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers revealed that he was standing by his criticism of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stating that the “training of ICE is horrible.”
Before the game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics, Rivers was asked by OutKick reporter Dan Zaksheske about his previous comments calling the fatal shooting of Renee Good “straight up murder.”
“A few weeks ago, you said the shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota was a ‘straight-up murder,’ and you called the broader ICE situation a travesty,” Zaksheske asked. “Now that some time has passed, do you still stand by those words, and when you said murder, can you explain if you meant that in the legal sense or as a moral condemnation?
“Both,” Rivers responded. “And, I don’t change that at all.”
Rivers explained that his dad “was a cop,” and that his best friend “is a cop,” and added that “he’s probably more upset about it” than Rivers is.
“The training of ICE is horrible, we all know that,” Rivers continued. “And, being in Minnesota, where there’s 130,000, I think, undocumented people — why not Texas, where there’s 1.7 million undocumented?”
OutKick reported that Rivers also claimed that NBA star