SecurityQuiet 90d · day 90
ICE's Minneapolis crackdown draws comparisons to militarized policing
After ICE kills a bystander and floods Minneapolis with agents, investigative journalist Radley Balko says the operation resembles a warrior-cop nightmare.
What to know
- ICE has sent about 3,000 federal agents into Minneapolis in what its acting director called the 'largest immigration operation ever.'
- The operation escalated after ICE killed US citizen Renée Good, whom the administration branded a 'domestic terrorist' despite video appearing to show her driving away.
- Protests have spread nationally; Minnesota's governor mobilized the National Guard and Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, with 1,500 troops readied by the Pentagon.
- Police militarization historian Radley Balko says the tactics echo decades of drug-war-era militarization and describes the situation as one of his 'worst fever dreams.'
“Law enforcement leaders around the country are horrified by what they're seeing”
Radley Balko, Investigative journalist, podcast host · More To The Story podcast / Mother Jones · Aug 12
Radley Balko Investigative journalist, author of Rise of the Warrior Cop
Todd Lyons Acting director of ICE
Renée Good Minneapolis resident and US citizen killed by an ICE officer
Tim Walz Governor of Minnesota
Donald Trump President of the United States
The record 2 articles and posts · last 30 days
What people are saying 1 voices from 1 site · best of 2 · verbatim
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"Nobody thinks that how Trump is using law enforcement right now is appropriate or consistent with the principles of a free society."