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Watch Chris Cuomo’s Face As Bill O’Reilly Calls Him Out Over Anti-ICE Rhetoric

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NewsNation host Chris Cuomo’s eyebrows furrowed on Wednesday when former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly chided him for suggesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were trigger-happy.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Jan. 7 after she abruptly accelerated her vehicle during a confrontation. During a debate on “CUOMO” about how local police should work with ICE, Cuomo asked whether agents needed to “shoot everybody who comes after them,” prompting O’Reilly to tell him he was “getting out of control.”

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“If I were the mayor, I would not put my police up to defend you running around and grabbing the wrong people in the wrong way,” Cuomo said. “I’m not going to have my police protect you going into a church and grabbing people during mass. I’m not doing that.”

O’Reilly replied that Cuomo’s comment was “wrongheaded.”

“They’re not protecting anybody other than Minneapolis protesters who are going to get hurt if they physically confront federal agents,” he explained.

“You’re talking about ICE like they’re Bengal tigers. Aren’t they trained to deescalate?” Cuomo asked. “Do they have to shoot everybody who comes after them?”

O’Reilly took issue with Cuomo’s sweeping generalization.

“‘Everybody,’ Cuomo? I think you’re getting out of control now,” he said.

Local and state police enabled rioters to impede roads and attack a hotel during demonstrations against immigration enforcement, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported on Jan. 26. The DCNF witnessed demonstrators block streets with objects and crowd a block outside a hotel and vandalize it with minimal law enforcement response for hours.

Federal officials have publicly criticized what they characterized as a lack of local help in calming the unrest, which escalated after the Good shooting and the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol on Jan. 24.

Border czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday a withdrawal of 700 federal law enforcement personnel from Minnesota, highlighting an “increase in unprecedented collaboration” with state and local authorities.

“We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets,” Homan said.