Minneapolis sports commentator apologizes for paid protesters comment

Paul Allen’s comments came when people were demonstrating against ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good

A veteran Minneapolis sports radio broadcaster has apologized and says he is “taking a few days off” after invoking a conservative conspiracy theory that people demonstrating against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown were being paid to protest.

Paul Allen’s comments about the protesters on Friday came a little more than two weeks after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot Renee Nicole Good to death on 7 January as she drove away from an encounter with him in Minneapolis, igniting street protests.

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