Calls for Accountability over Feds’ Deadly Use of Force in Minneapolis Have Not Relented. Here’s Why that’s Complicated

Trump’s ICE Invasion Is Upending Daily Life for Minneapolis Children

Vera Swanson is like many 5-year-olds. Her favorite colors are purple and sparkly blue. She loves strawberries. Art is her favorite subject in school. She really likes drawing axolotls. “They’re so cute. I made them today,” Vera said while sitting on her couch in St. Paul with her parents nearby, just days after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in… Source

Letter: ICE actions are making us unsafe

Law enforcement's job is to help make our cities safe. As citizens, we are also responsible to keep our communities safe. People can point fingers at one another but the fact remains that Renee Good and Alex Pretti are dead. Both deaths could have been prevented. Our country’s attorney general wants to charge demonstrators for violating the law but she refuses to charge ICE officers who killed two people. Our president justified and pardoned the…

(Guest opinion) Andrew Morehead: Government officers need to be held accountable

Federal action in the streets of Minneapolis goes well beyond immigration. It is a test of the government’s power to use armed violence against its own citizens. It is a dividing line between liberty and tyranny. It may not be the last. President Trump has not given up his power to impose a paramilitary force on unwilling states. He and his officials have told agents that they enjoy “absolute immunity” even though they do not. Judges are complai…

Cottom: ICE is watching you

In the latest stop in Donald Trump’s war on liberal democracy, federal agents in Minnesota have shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. It was difficult to avoid the videos of what I can only think of as their executions. The images captured by bystanders and immigration agents were reminiscent of the lynching postcards that white spectators once bought and traded — reproductions of retributive violence, tailor-made to titillate and intimida…

Glenn Beck issues chilling read of America’s ‘dashboard’: Red, yellow, and green lights signal where we’re headed next

America is navigating a moment of intense polarization. Widespread civil unrest over federal immigration enforcement, deepening distrust in institutions, and a sharp surge in gold prices have much of the nation steeped in economic and institutional anxiety.Many Americans are fretfully asking the question: What’s next for our country?News outlets, influencers, and podcasters are all answering that inquiry differently using various metrics, opinio…

Calls for accountability over feds’ deadly use of force in Minneapolis have not relented. Here’s why that’s complicated

Looming is the question of whether the federal immigration officers who pulled the triggers in both cases actually broke the law, a question that will come down to complicated issues that are much harder to define than the outrage that prompted calls for accountability.