After a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot
Posts spreading the claim alongside the video largely spread on X, but also circulated on other social media platforms including Threads (archived, archived, archived, archived, archived).
Here's what DeSantis said in the video:
And we also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets, and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida.
In an email to Snopes, DeSantis spokesperson Molly Best highlighted an X post in which the governor called the claims circulating "intentionally false framing."
DeSantis also shared comments from one of his other spokespeople, Christina Pushaw. In response to a post claiming DeSantis defended Good, Pushaw wrote:
Listen to what @GovRonDeSantis SAYS here. Under the law, if you're driving somewhere, there is a riot blocking your way, and you get surrounded in your car by a violent "mob", you do not have to stop and let them potentially harm you. That's self-defense. You have NO right to run over a law enforcement officer, and if you try to do that, the LEO has every right to shoot you in self-defense.
Multiple reputable analyses of videos from the shooting contradict claims that Good attempted to run over the ICE officer before he shot her; she appeared to be driving away from the agent. Multiple news outlets
DeSantis' full interview with political commentator Dave Rubin, published on June 11, 2025, can be found below. DeSantis' comments from the circulated clip start at 7:51.
DeSantis was talking about people caught in the crossfire of protesters shutting down streets and their rights in Florida. Here's the full context of his statement, beginning at 6:45 (emphasis ours):
RUBIN: So in Florida, what is our policy? If they are going to take over. It's not just about throwing rocks, let's say, which obviously they'd be arrested. You know, over an overpass or something like that. But if they're going to take over a street without a permit, or something like that, are people going to immediately be arrested? What is actually our policy, the second they step over that line, as blurry as they want it to be?
DESANTIS: Well, the Hamas demonstrations, when that was in vogue, they tried to do that in the city of Miami, and the Miami PD got 'em off the street in 13 minutes. They tried to do it in central Florida on a state road and our state highway patrol — they were able to dispatch them in 11 minutes. And so, yes, there is zero tolerance. You have no right to commandeer streets.
And first of all, it's just wrong. Second of all, that has huge impacts on people's quality of life. You may have a parent needing to go pick up a child from day care or from a camp or from school. You may have somebody that has a medical issue that they need to get — and what, you're going to clog all of the roads? So we have an absolutely zero-tolerance policy for that.
And we also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets, and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you. You don't have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida.