Jon Stewart says an activist driving car at officer is 'small act of defiance'

Comments by television host Jon Stewart are going viral online after he describe attempting to run over a federal agent as a “small act of defiance” on the heels of the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

The clip, shared widely on social media by several outlets including Timcast News, shows Stewart talking about resistance to law enforcement during a broader conversation about protests and authority.

In the clip, Stewart says, "When I look at that video, I don't see both sides in a dogmatic stance. I see a woman, maybe naive, sitting in a car thinking she has to do something and she's going to block something, and a wildly extreme overreaction to that small act of defiance. And then, like, I just—when they say, like, she was radicalized, I just think, well, there are masked gunmen in her neighborhood who she's read about taking 17-year-old kids and pulling them off the street.

"That wasn't—it didn't feel like—I'm used to—I know what a terrorist attack looks like," referring to comments by the Department of Homeland Security that Good was a domestic terrorist.

Good, a Minnesota mother who was trained as an ICE aggitator was shot and killed last week during a federal immigration enforcement operation. ICE officials state the agent fired after perceiving her vehicle as an imminent threat. Video footage and witness accounts from the scene have sparked debate on whether or not the officer's use of force was necessary, though multiple video angles show that the federal agent was struck by Good when she was driving.

Law enforcement agencies classify the use of a vehicle against an officer as potentially lethal force, a standard frequently cited in use-of-force investigations nationwide.