Late last Wednesday night, I was standing on a street corner in the Hawthorne neighborhood in North Minneapolis when I witnessed an extraordinary confrontation. A federal agent marched up a narrow residential sidewalk flanked by modest bungalows, kitted out in gear fit for the battle of Falluja: full body armor, military boots and camouflage fatigues and helmet, with a heavy machine gun slung by his side. His carriage was erect, his gaze fixed straight ahead, seemingly oblivious to the crowd of protesters who blew whistles and shouted curses as he passed, enraged that one week after Renee Good was gunned down by an ICE agent, another civilian had been shot by ICE in their city.
Suddenly, the tense scene dissolved into slapstick. The federal officer slipped on a patch of ice and tumbled to the ground. A raucous roar of laughter and jeers erupted from the protesters surrounding him. He scrambled to his feet and marched on. But a few seconds later one of the protesters shouted, “He dropped his magazine!”
Temu Nosferatu seems to be intent on triggering violent response to the predations of Federal goons. It's not an exaggeration to say they are acting like the Gestapo, engaging in full-on racial profiling. ICE grabbing people because they look foreign is like the Gestapo grabbing people because of the shapes of their noses.
1 comment:
Ida loved to have seen that.
But seriously...a "Heavy Machine Gun"?
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