• So that’s what it takes to get left-wingers to go to church.
• In Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good after she blocked the road with her SUV at the scene of an apparent immigration enforcement operation, refused to follow officers’ orders, and then accelerated toward one of the officers, hitting him as she turned. Since then, unrest has erupted in Minneapolis, and ICE officers have become 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. Governor Tim Walz (who had earlier announced that he won’t be seeking another term) has fanned the flames at every turn, accusing ICE of “atrocities” and suggesting that he would summon the National Guard. This is appalling behavior. Protesters even interrupted a church service because a pastor works for ICE — possibly breaking a federal law protecting churchgoers. President Donald Trump’s immediate labeling of Good as a domestic terrorist has also inflamed matters. 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.
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