WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said that anti-deportation activist Renee Good “violated the law” and was justifiably shot dead by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

The 37-year-old mother of three was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our officers to do their job,” Vance said at a White House briefing, after calling Good a “deranged leftist” on X.

Vance lashed out at the media and leftists who have depicted the shooting as “murder” rather than an act of self-defense by a federal agent doing his job.

“If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws,” Vance said.

“We’re not going to give in to terrorism on this,” he added, saying that anti-ICE activists had, in some instances, thrown bricks and harassed officers at home.

“This is classic terrorism, and we cannot say that when a far-left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials, that we’re no longer going to enforce the law.”

The shooting drew an outcry from local Democratic officials who already were resisting President Trump’s deployment of immigration agents to track down and deport alleged illegal immigrants in the Twin Cities.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said at a press conference Wednesday that “I have a message for ICE: To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also had harsh words for the feds, saying “an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2024, said he doubted a federal shooting investigation would have a “fair outcome.”

“Look, Tim Walz is a joke,” Vance said at the White House briefing.

“His entire administration has been a joke. The idea that he’s some sort of freedom fighter, he’s not. He’s a guy who has enabled fraud and maybe, in fact, has participated in fraud… I don’t care what Tim Walz says.”

In response to a reporter’s question, the vice president said that Good, who was shot while accelerating her car in the ICE officer’s direction, may not have intended to harm the man.

“Look, I don’t know what is in a person’s heart or in a person’s head. And obviously, we’re not going to get the chance to ask this woman what was going on,” he said.

“What I am certain of is that she violated the law. What I am certain of is that the officer had every reason to think that he was under very serious threat or injury, or in fact, his life. What I’m certain of [is] that she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy.

“I don’t know what was in her heart and what was in her head, but I know that she violated the law, and I know that officer was acting in self-defense.”

Vance referred to the shooting as a “tragedy” of Good’s “own making.”

“I’m not happy that this woman lost her life,” he said, while also giving a forceful defense of the officer who was previous injured in a car attack.

The officer “nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?” Vance said.”That guy is protected by absolute immunity — he was doing his job.”