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CBS News “Exclusive” That ICE Officer “Suffered Internal Bleeding” Draws “Huge Internal Concern”

HeadlineJan 16, 2026

In media news, some employees of CBS News expressed concern after their network cited two anonymous U.S. officials on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis “suffered internal bleeding to the torso” after the incident. That’s according to The Guardian, citing internal emails which reveal top CBS News editor Bari Weiss expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call on Wednesday. CBS News senior vice president David Reiter pushed back, writing, “I’m no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity. … We do know that the ICE agent walked away from the incident — we have that on camera.”

This comes after CBS’s new news anchor, Tony Dokoupil, concluded his second-ever broadcast of the CBS Evening News with a lighthearted segment about Secretary of State Marco Rubio, displaying AI-altered meme photos of Rubio and saluting him as “the ultimate Florida man.”

Tony Dokoupil: “For Rubio’s hometown fans, which are many around here in Miami, it is a sign of how Florida, once an American punchline, has become a leader on the world stage. Marco Rubio, we salute you. You’re the ultimate Florida man.”

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