Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs recently attempted to distance herself from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes following a TV interview, where the radical left Attorney General suggested that Arizonans can shoot and kill ICE agents under Arizona’s stand your ground law.
Mayes, who is up for reelection this November after stealing the 2022 election by just 280 votes from now-Rep. Abe Hamadeh, recently suggested in an interview that you could lawfully shoot and kill ICE agents in Arizona.
“You have these masked Federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks. And we have a stand your ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger, and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force,” Mayes said.
“You’re not allowed to shoot peace officers,” she added. “But how do you know they’re a peace officer?”
Mayes further presented a possible legal defense for anyone who shoots an ICE agent, telling 12 News’s Brahm Resnik, “It becomes, did they reasonably know that they were a peace officer?”
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Mayes later attacked “right-wing media” and Arizona Republicans, claiming her words were “mischaracterized” in a damage control statement. Notably, she did not walk her comments back, but instead doubled down, accusing ICE agents of “destroying the public’s trust in law enforcement and putting every American, including local law enforcement, in danger.”
“Arizonans do not want masked agents entering their homes without warrants. It is un-American and threatens the rights and safety of everyone in our state. But we have all witnessed the increasingly chaotic and dangerous activity of ICE agents in cities across the country,” Mayes continued before pointing to the deaths of violent leftwing agitators Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
Hobbs, who is also up for reelection after barely stealing the 2022 election from Kari Lake, told reporters that Mayes’s comments were “inappropriate” and “didn’t hit the mark.”
“She should retract them,” Hobbs said. “It is the responsibility of every elected official to turn down the temperature and do everything we can to be very careful with our language about ramping up the potential for violence.”
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Reporter: As you know, the Attorney General made some comments that got a lot of attention. What do you think of what she said? Was it justified?
Hobbs: I think her comments were inappropriate, and she should retract them.
Reporter: What about them was inappropriate?
Hobbs: It is the responsibility of every elected official to turn down the temperature and do everything we can to be very careful with our language about ramping up the potential for violence.
Reporter: But her point was, she said she was trying to promote safety.
Hobbs:I’m not going to defend her remarks. I’m not going to litigate her remarks. I think they were inappropriate, and I think she should retract them. If she’s had to do as much explaining as she has, it didn’t hit the mark.
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