Staff Reports
Minneapolis has exploded into chaos this week after a series of federal immigration operations touched off violent clashes in the streets. What began with the tragic, highly contested shooting of Renee Nicole Good has metastasized into nightly confrontations between federal agents and enraged crowds, leaving a city that once prided itself on safety looking like a war zone.
The situation escalated again when federal officers reported being attacked during another operation and an agent fired in self-defense, wounding a man, while crowds gathered at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and police deployed tear gas. Local leaders have pandered to outrage instead of restoring order, and school and court closures have become the new normal as lawlessness spreads.
Independent journalists and social-media footage posted from the scene show rioters breaking into abandoned federal vehicles, rifling through equipment, and hauling away what some accounts describe as weapons lockers, arrest warrants, and sensitive documents. Videos circulating online and amplified by conservative outlets captured men pulling items from trunks and tearing open lockboxes, and at least one posting claims a rifle and ammunition were taken from a federal vehicle.
To be clear, major mainstream outlets have not yet independently verified every detail of the social-media claims about stolen firearms or classified materials, and the fog of unrest means some reporting remains unconfirmed. But when law enforcement property is looted and agents are doxxed or threatened on camera, Americans don’t need a press conference to understand the danger: federal personnel and ordinary citizens are at risk.
President Trump responded exactly as any commander-in-chief should, warning that if state and local officials refuse to protect federal officers and enforce the law, he will invoke the Insurrection Act to bring order and protect the rule of law. That may be medicine some cities desperately need after years of appeasing radicals while patriots and public servants take fire and blame.
Enough with the double standards and moral cowardice from Democratic leaders who first cheered on resistance to federal authority and now wring their hands as rioters escalate. Minneapolis’ electeds and prosecutors who grandstand for votes must answer for the chaos they allowed, and federal authorities must be given every tool to secure people, property, and the truth.
America is supposed to be a country of laws, not a mosaic of lawless enclaves where mobs decide which rules apply. Patriots everywhere should stand with the men and women in uniform doing a dangerous job under impossible conditions, demand accountability for those who attack them, and insist that city halls stop putting politics over public safety.
