This video on circulating on Threads captures a second at a Minneapolis protest that’s troublesome to observe and unimaginable to dismiss. A MAGA supporter overtly celebrates the demise of Renee Good, a mom of three killed by ICE, and threatens the gang with additional violence.
Screaming, “We executed one among you yesterday,” the wild-eyed MAGA guarantees extra bloodshed. ICE brokers standby showing much less concerned about de-escalation than in defending the person issuing threats in opposition to the protesters. One lone girl repeatedly urges calm, making an attempt to maintain the scenario from spiraling additional.
That is what escalation seems like when it’s inspired from the highest.
The US is quickly approaching a boiling level, and its management is as soon as once more stoking the flames. Emboldened by a president who pardons legal insurrectionists and affords imagined justifications for brutality, and inspired by a vp who rebrands extrajudicial killing as “enforcement,” it’s now not clear the place the road is drawn. What is evident is that the road retains transferring.
ICE brokers behave like individuals who know they won’t be held accountable. A brownshirt kicks over a memorial for the girl killed the day earlier than and smirks as a protester reacts in anguish. There is no such thing as a seen concern, no restraint, no try to decrease the temperature. Solely confidence.
President Invoice Clinton famously as soon as stated, “There’s nothing flawed with America that can not be cured by what is true with America,” again in 1992. Watching this video, it’s laborious to not conclude that what’s flawed now’s being actively protected, and what’s proper is being instructed to face down or else.
Beforehand:
• MAGA requires Hilton boycott after resort turned away ICE brokers
• Comic trolls ICE brokers with animal costumes and protest songs
• ICE arrested MAGA-worshipping proprietor of ‘Trump Burger’ in Texas — now faces deportation
• ICE shoots and kills mom of three in Minneapolis
• ICE car rear-ends neighborhood observer in Oxnard
