"Do You Have No Decency?"
A frustrated Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz encourages peaceful protests in the wake of a deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis
It’s another sad day in Maritsa’s hometown of Minneapolis where an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car. It happened just blocks from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020.
Several videos taken at the scene show what happened— DISCLAIMER: this footage is extremely disturbing.
Now compare the video above with how DHS Sec. Kristi Noem described the incident:
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pulled no punches in a press conference held shortly after the shooting, telling ICE to get out of his city.
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit,” Mayor Frey said. Then he had this to say: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz promised a full, fair and expeditious investigation in a post on X, saying, “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”
Walz held a separate press conference later in the afternoon when he pleaded with Minnesotans to protest peacefully.
“Maybe we're at their McCarthy moment. Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever,” Walz said. “Enough. Enough is enough. And so to Minnesotans, don't take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to invoke the insurrection act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state. And let's let this investigation play itself out. Let's make sure we protect our neighbors. I encourage you to use your first amendment rights and all of your constitutional rights, but do so in a peaceful manner.”
We will continue following all of the developments out of Minneapolis and go live to discuss. Be smart. Be safe.
There can be no doubt in any rational American mind hat one of the prime motivations behind Trump’s (through the puppy killer) deployment of thousands of masked and armed ICE agents into primarily blue cities was to create exactly the kind of tensions it has, with the predicable results.
Trump is dying for a reason to use the Insurrection Act both as a demonstration of his dictatorial powers and as a way to feed red meat to his supporters and to distract them from the damage his economic policies are doing, not to mention the Epstein files. And putting these masked thugs, most of whose training, backgrounds, legal records, and political leadings are entirely unknown into the streets, with essentially carte blanche to do whatever they want is an open invitation to just the kind of trouble we’ve been seeing.
I won’t even comment on the utter absurdity of a Trumpchick wearing a cowboy hat several sizes too big describing an incident about which she could have had no complete factual knowledge at the time, only excuses from the field by some agent who was either dead to any concept of conscience or very worried about possible consequences.
This will happen again and again until this administration is sent packing into the dustbin of history, and that cannot happen soon enough.
Domestic terrorism? Give me a break. The only ones committing domestic terrorism are the masked federal agents. This needs to stop.