A message for ICE

Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis, this afternoon, has a message for ICE. My transcription:

“To ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That’s on you. And it’s also on you to leave.”

If you watch the video of an ICE agent shooting and killing a driver whose vehicle was blocking the street, you’ll agree that it’s absurd to characterize the driver’s movement as “domestic terrorism” and the ICE agent’s response as self-defense, as Kristi Noem has. The driver was driving away. The shooter was not injured, much less run over, as the current occupant alleges. Having watched the video many times, I think that the driver may have backed up so that she could move forward at an angle that let her avoid hitting the ICE agent who then shot her in the head.

Mayor Frey: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: that is bullshit.”

George Orwell: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

To my friends in Minneapolis: I am sorry for what has happened in your city.