Tommy Brennan on Weekend Update highlights Minnesota unrest

Nbc reported that New Season 51 featured player Tommy Brennan made his second "Weekend Update" visit on January 17 and offered a Minnesota native's view of unrest following the death of resident Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent. Though the segment didn't air during Finn Wolfhard's episode, the cut clip provided one cast member's take.

Brennan told the SNL audience, "You know, it's pretty scary what's happening in Minnesota right now," and acknowledged "there's nothing I can say that will ease the grief and anger and fear that a lot of people are feeling right now." Michael Che called it "a really heavy thing to talk about," then Brennan showed a viral video of a border patrol agent with his face covered slipping on ice.

According to Snopes, the man in the video is a Customs and Border Protection agent, not an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, though both are in Minnesota as part of the Trump administration's "Operation Metro Surge" deployment into U.S. cities. The Studio 8H audience cheered as Brennan replayed the clip several times and quipped, "Minnesotans are famously nice." Brennan, who hails from St.

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Culture, Tommy Brennan, Renee Nicole Good, Operation Metro Surge, Minnesota