A reader of this blog emailed me with come comments. In particular he mentioned that shouldn't it have been local PD in Minneapolis controlling the crowd?
The simple answer is, yest, it should have been local PD. But they work for a government (city and state) that consider themselves a sanctuary location. Their mayor and governor side with illegal immigrants. The local PD should have been there to arrest every individual in the crowd that threw objects at the ICE personnel, that sent firecrackers to the ICE personnel, that weaponized their vehicle against ICE. Peaceful protests are one thing, demonstrators that commit crimes should be arrested by the local PD and charged accordingly. Maybe, the shooting could have been avoided if the local PD had been released to do their job and enforce crowd contril measures. But, when you have a mayor, a governor and other government officials ramping up the rhetoric these kinds of things will happen.
