Remember the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), in Portland, Oregon, in 2020? Well, the protesters in Minneapolis are doing the same thing.
On Saturday, The Daily Caller reported:
Left-wing rioters erected barricades in the streets of Minneapolis after Border Patrol agents fatally shot a man in possession of a gun Saturday.
Alex Pretti, 37, was killed during what a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statement described as a “targeted” enforcement operation at 9:05 a.m. local time, triggering riots. Jorge Ventura, reporting for the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), posted video of one such barricade made with dumpsters and trash cans Saturday afternoon.
“Protesters have blocked and barricaded multiple streets near the shooting, many people from out of town are starting to arrive here in Minneapolis and despite the massive amounts of tear gas used by authorities, the crowd is only getting bigger,” Ventura says.
Ventura told the DCNF that Minneapolis police and the Minnesota State Patrol “are letting them take to the streets” and not making any effort to remove the barricades. The Minneapolis Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.
The article concludes:
ICE deployed hundreds of agents into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia following reports of welfare fraud in Minnesota by City Journal in November. Some of the proceeds from the scams reportedly went to the Somalia-based radical Islamic terrorist group, al-Shabaab.
President Donald Trump declared an end to Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in the state Nov. 22. Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was then moved to announce during a Dec. 7.on Minneapolis-area TV station WCCO that Minneapolis police would not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement operations.
It is time for this to stop. It is no longer a peaceful protest when protesters are carrying guns, attacking federal law enforcement, and blocking streets. Just as the federal government used force to segregate southern schools, they need to use force now. Officials who refuse to enforce the law need to be removed.
Just a note–notice that we are not currently hearing anything about the Somali fraud. Do you believe that is just a coincidence?