The Week: Unrest in Minneapolis

• Decades come and go, but one story never changes: “Clintons refuse to testify in scandal probe.”

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis continue to be the focus of an intense campaign of harassment meant to chase them from the city. Apologists call these agitators “legal observers” or say, as Mayor Jacob Frey does, that they are “protecting” their neighbors. But they aren’t mere observers, and they often break the law. It wouldn’t be considered admirable neighborliness if residents, say, tried to obstruct the arrest of drug dealers or car thieves. The anti-ICE campaign—which is semiorganized, involves coercive tactics and sometimes violence, and is meant to resist a lawful operation of the federal government—is insurrectionary activity. Sure enough, President Donald Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. It would be better if everyone de-escalated, and de-escalation should begin with progressive politicians’ telling their residents not to impede and threaten federal law enforcement agents.

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• Decades come and go, but one story never changes: “Clintons refuse to testify in scandal probe.”

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis continue to be the focus of an intense campaign of harassment meant to chase them from the city. Apologists call these agitators “legal observers” or say, as Mayor Jacob Frey does, that they are “protecting” their neighbors. But they aren’t mere observers, and they often break the law. It wouldn’t be considered admirable neighborliness if residents, say, tried to obstruct the arrest of drug dealers or car thieves. The anti-ICE campaign—which is semiorganized, involves coercive tactics and sometimes violence, and is meant to resist a lawful operation of the federal government—is insurrectionary activity. Sure enough, President Donald Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. It would be better if everyone de-escalated, and de-escalation should begin with progressive politicians’ telling their residents not to impede and threaten federal law enforcement agents.