I’m reporting on a political retribution campaign, disguised as immigration enforcement, in the community where I live
I knew they would come here.
If you’re a president hell-bent on retreading 2020 and retaliating against your enemies, the midwestern state that started the George Floyd protests, with a generous social safety net and diverse population, governed by a vice-presidential candidate you vehemently hate, is a certain target.
But I don’t think most people thought it would look quite this bad, quite this fast, for quite this many people. I don’t think we could have fathomed what 3,000 agents would look like in a smaller city – the relentlessness of their presence – or the level of violence they intended to bring.
And, I don’t think the Trump administration realized just how much the people of Minnesota would not stand for it. Or how the rest of the world, viewing repeated video footage of agents’ brutality as they killed two US citizens, would cheer the people on.
