Overview
- Before Sunday’s Bucks–Celtics game, OutKick reporter Dan Zaksheske asked Rivers if he still considered Renee Good’s shooting “straight-up murder,” and Rivers replied he meant it both legally and morally.
- Rivers condemned ICE training as “horrible,” suggested “brown people” should be worried about enforcement, and invoked Hakeem Olajuwon as an example of who could have been “taken off the streets.”
- Rivers cited Tom Homan to argue racial targeting, while critics noted Homan’s past comments emphasized the “totality of the circumstances” and said physical appearance alone cannot justify detention.
- Coverage highlighted a contrast with Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who recently apologized for spreading “misinformation” about ICE, as Rivers declined to retract his statements.
- The remarks follow January incidents in Minneapolis that left residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti dead in encounters with federal agents, and as of Tuesday evening OutKick reported the NBA had not commented on Rivers’ stance.