Renee Nicole Good. George Floyd. Different tragedies, but the same grief for a community betrayed by the people who were supposed to protect and serve.
Crowds gathered again in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, marching through the same streets where some of them were protesting five and a half years ago after Floyd’s murder.
The full force and fury of the federal government landed on Minnesota last week.
“You will be held accountable for your crimes,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Jan. 6, as the largest immigration enforcement action in agency history surged into the state. It felt like she was addressing all Minnesotans, not just the handcuffed man she paraded before the cameras.
Minnesotans reeled as masked ICE agents descended on the state. They said they’d come to root out fraud. They tackled people to the ground in city parks and harassed parents and children on the way to school.