We’re back to this again. It’s a time loop, and we’ve come around full circle. In 2020, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) penned an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the deployment of troops to quell nationwide unrest during the summer, spurred by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Anytime something cataclysmic happens as of late vis-à-vis ginning up leftist mayhem, it can always be traced back to the Great Lakes region, but I digress. That piece led to another uproar; it got an editor fired, but Cotton was right. And Trump must do that in Minneapolis, now that it’s become an epicenter of progressive chaos.
It all started because Renee Nicole Good thought she could ram a federal agent and nothing would happen to her on January 7. Wrong—she got shot in the face multiple times. We knew the liberal take on the initial video of the incident was wrong. It wasn’t murder or an execution. Days later, the ICE agent’s cellphone footage was released, showing Good accelerate into the agent, striking him, which led to him opening fire in self-defense. It was a justified shooting. Good’s partner could be heard screaming, “Drive, baby, drive.”
This was a woman who was calm and collected and knew what she was doing; she’s done this sort of anti-ICE disruption before. The narratives that this was murder, she was scared, she was fleeing for her life, that she was a legal observer, and she was just an innocent passerby all imploded.
It's led to brawls in the streets, hotels being besieged by leftist mobs, and innocent bystanders being harassed for looking like ICE agents. Five software engineers were mobbed while eating lunch. These leftists’ activities are reportedly coordinated by an anti-ICE chat on Signal. The local police cannot do anything since they’ve been ordered to stand down on anything ICE-related, so we have these incidents and zero local support for crowd control, which is why thousands of additional agents have been deployed.
The anti-ICE pamphlets being distributed to prevent arrests are a literal “how to get shot in the face” guide—it pretty much instructs how and when to assault federal officers trying to enforce federal immigration law. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz have poured fuel on this progressive fire, telling ICE to leave, claiming this wasn’t self-defense in the case of Frey, and likening ongoing clashes between protesters and federal law enforcement to the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, as Walz recently did.
There are reportedly 1,500 troops on standby should President Trump invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the unrest. It’s a move he should’ve executed in 2020. I don’t care about what the liberal media thinks about this, or any national Democrat. We won the election, not you. So, sit down and let us clean up the messes your atrocious approach to public policy has laid bare. If our military is needed to keep these animals in line, so be it.
We’re at a point where the mob is bum-rushing into churches, as we saw with Don Lemon recently, because they thought an ICE agent was inside. The priest was even accused of working with federal law enforcement. The mob is getting larger and more unruly. It’s time to nip it in the bud.
Deploy the troops, deploy tanks, get the helicopters in the air, and squash this thing. If you have to go door-to-door to root out the agitator, so be it. The troops leave when the mayhem ends, so it’s really up to Minneapolis residents, should the Insurrection Act be invoked, who determine whether this occupation is temporary or permanent.
