Cliff Willmeng, Minneapolis
A quick response to the script being read by Tom Homan, Time Walz Jacob Frey, and all of the politicians on the so-called end of, “Metro Surge”.
The blood on the street is scarcely dry when Walz and Homan made this grand announcement with the prescription that the communities end the direct protection of our neighbors in the street. It is made the days prior to the Democratic Party voting on DHS funding, most certainly so they can have a talking point to vote to fund ICE and DHS.
The meetings between the Minnesota Democratic Party (or DFL as its known here) were closed to all community members and essential workers. We have no idea what was agreed to, nor who was present in the meetings.
Every level of Minnesota government and policing has been cooperating with ICE actions and abductions. The Minneapolis Police Department arrested community members in our defense actions. The Hennepin County Sheriff has been protecting the federal detention center from protesters as has the Minnesota State Police. All of this while ICE has been collecting data on our community members for their, “Domestic terrorist”, database.
Not a single Democratic politician is saying a word about the $70 billion budget of ICE and the purchasing of warehouses all over the country for mass detention.
As far as I can tell, some community members are hopeful of the announcement, which is an intention driven by the scale of violence and oppression we have all experienced. No one has forgotten or will ever forget the titanic levels of organizing, resistance and bravery shown by the people here in defending vulnerable communities.
Personally I see no reason to believe anything is ending here except the last remaining and desperate threads of legitimacy of the politicians and their stooges. “Its the pattern of an abuser”, a local RN said. “They beat you and then apologize before returning to the violence”.
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