Dave Matthews: I Don't Want My Taxes Dollars Paying for "Masked Thugs" in ICE

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Source: Consequence

Dave Matthews says he doesn’t want “my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart.”

The singer-songwriter shared an impassioned rebuke of ICE and the Trump administration following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this past week. “We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn’t be, you know, throwing people to the ground,” the Dave Matthews Band frontman said in a video posted to Instagram on Friday.

“Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good. Murdered in front of her fellow citizens in Minneapolis, murdered in the streets. And no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos,” Matthews continued. “Maybe if they show you one and they slow it down and they tell you where to look, you might think, maybe there’s a chance, maybe there’s a chance. That the gunman was felt threatened. But from most angles, near and far, it looks like she was trying to get away, and he shot her three times in the head, murdered in cold blood.”

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Read more: https://consequence.net/2026/01/dave-matthews-ice-masked-thugs/

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Instagram video with his full statement in the article at that link.

My GD thread with the same complete video from Facebook and Threads:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220926862

There are other GD threads with a small part of Matthews' statement from YouTube Shorts and X. The links I've posted from his Meta accounts have the full video.

[SheltieLover]

1. Reminds me of Not In My Name, during dubya's contrived war

[randr]

2. Magats make a big deal of not paying for abortions

We should all have the choice of where our tax dollars go.

[BaronChocula]

6. Unless it's for the girlfriend they're cheating with n/t

[FredGarvin]

3. David Matthews

He goes by David now.

Glad he supports peace

[underpants]

4. Always loved him.

His band played at a club called The Flood Zone in Richmond every Wednesday night. This was in the 90’s when they were selling tapes out if the back of their van. I never went and saw them and I regret it.

[Initech]

5. Damn right!!!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. Former NFL Minn Viking kicker Chris Kluwe- running for assembly in HunBch CA

Started a petition- I have passed it on to Bernie, Peter, Becca and Indivisable
WE SHOULD ALL BE DOING THIS!

PVD,

Our kids aren't safe with Trump in office (in more ways than one sadly).

Apart from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, Trump is now unconstitutionally withholding BILLIONS of dollars in childcare and social program funding from blue states like California because he thinks that "fraud and abuse" is happening.

PVD, this will harm families and working people in the entire state.

Trump is once again dangling federal funding over our heads to try to force us to bend the knee, but there's something we can do about it.

And it's why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington.

If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.

PVD, if you agree with my plan, will you sign our petition and help me prove to others that Californians are ready to fight back against this administration?