"The second big impediment to a repeat of George Floyd-style riots is the dawning recognition by the public that, as Elon Musk put it, “The Democrats hate ICE because ICE deports their illegal voting base.' ”
"Killer Agent Unmasked,” screamed a headline in The Drudge Report. I know, I know, hardly anyone sane reads the Drudge Report anymore. But its headline and accompanying stories did stake out the let’s-see-if-we-can-spark-the-George-Floyd-reboot territory. So did a supremely irresponsible opinion column in The Chicago Tribune, which argued that “every last American” should agree that the shooting death of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis a few days ago was “an abomination.”
"Should they? Was it?
"Soon-to-be ex-Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey certainly think so. Walz has been comparing ICE agents to the Gestapo for years. Frey abetted the “fiery but mostly peaceful” burning of Minneapolis in 2020 after George Floyd died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest, and Frey acted entirely according to form in denouncing ICE and Donald Trump in response to the shooting of Good by an ICE agent.
"The destructive, anti-American left thought they were getting the band back together. Mobs in various cities have been protesting, harassing, and impeding the lawful activities of ICE. In Minneapolis, mobs are going from hotel to hotel in search of ICE agents, smashing windows, blaring horns, and screaming obscenities.
"For just a few days, the city of Minneapolis—and other blue cities across the country—teetered back and forth. Full summer-of-love-smash-everything riots? Or impotent progressive-white-female fury and hysteria, aided by low-testosterone soy boys in the media and ranks of Democrat officeholders?
"Right from the beginning, I thought the second option more likely. Why? For one thing, it was winter in a cold city. Protestors prefer warmer temperatures. Then, too, the person shot was a white woman, not a black criminal, so a large quota of the rage would have to be special ordered from the warehouse. There was plenty of rage on hand. But there were also, almost from the beginning, many dissenting voices. Sean Morrison, a Cook County Commissioner, took on the Chicago Tribune in a post on X: “The Chicago Tribune editorial declaring that ‘every last American should agree’ the death of a Minneapolis woman at the hands of a federal immigration agent is an ‘abomination’ is a textbook example of unethical, ideologically driven journalism.”
"The Minneapolis Fraternal Order of Police put out a statement saying that they stand with ICE." . . . More...
"Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and the president and publisher of Encounter Books. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (St. Augustine's Press), The Rape of the Masters (Encounter), Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Ivan R. Dee), and Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity "
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