Emily Kopp is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation
Pop star Zara Larsson, a Swedish national, declared her “love” for criminals and a litany of leftist causes — as well as her hatred for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — in a rambling Instagram story Saturday.
The “Lush Life” and “Can’t Tame Her” songstress, 28 wrote in the social media post, “I love criminals,” as well as “immigrants,” “trans people,” “abortions,” “queers,” “slutty women,” “contraception” — adding at the end of the list, “I f*cking hate ICE.” Larsson, a multi-platinum recording artist who boasts nearly 10 million Instagram followers, also emphasized that she loves “welfare” and “socialism.”
Larsson’s declared embrace of criminality and opposition to immigration law enforcement follows anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, Minn., Friday night in which demonstrators vandalized and forced entry into two downtown hotels and caused a disruption because they believed them to be the temporary residences of ICE agents, according to multiple reports.
Despite a reportedly delayed and anemic police presence, 30 people were arrested and received citations, the Minneapolis Police Department confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The “Ain’t My Fault” singer defended her comments after receiving pushback from Instagram users for lauding “criminals,” stating she was “heavy on that sh*t,” and would “rather have someone smoking crack on my couch than a f*cking ICE agent ewwwwwwwww.”
She said her stance stems from her stated claim that her boyfriend, widely reported to be dancer and choreographer Lamin Holmen, cannot visit the U.S. because of a criminal conviction for marijuana.
“We spend months and months apart every year because of a little spliff over 6 years ago,” she said. “I’m just saying there’s thousands and thousands of people who go to jail and prison over non-violent crimes like drugs, mostly black and brown people because of [former President] Ronald Reagan being racist in the 80s.”
“They’re criminals too,” the Swede wrote of ICE, apparently making an exception to her moments-earlier embrace of criminals. “Killing, kidnapping, violent, hateful ones.”
Larsson defended the spelling and grammar errors in her screed in which she seemed to muse about the psychology of the federal agents she lambasted.
“Not to be Jesus boots but ironically the people who needs the most love is the evil clowns. Ooooooop the room went silent!” she wrote.
Larsson’s apparent foray into an American political debate comes despite the fact her primary residence remains her birthplace of Stockholm, Sweden.
Thousands of people descended upon Minneapolis on Saturday for the fourth consecutive night of protests following the fatal Wednesday shooting of Renee Good. Good was shot by an ICE agent as she drove toward him, which followed her apparent attempt to obstruct ICE operations, a viral video published by Alpha News shows. Marchers have converged at the site of the shooting, according to local reports.
The Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal agents to Minnesota amid a crackdown on what one U.S. attorney described as “industrial-scale fraud” that was conducted largely by people of Somali descent.
The DCNF’s request for comment sent to Sony Music, which licenses Larsson’s music via an agreement between subsidiary Epic Records and Larsson’s label Sommer House, did not immediately receive a response.
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