cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41935656
Opinion - Lydia Polgreen
Jan. 19, 2026Like many Americans, I had watched the video of the killing of Good by an ICE officer on a residential street in Minneapolis with horror and sorrow. From afar, this tragic and possibly criminal act of violence could plausibly be seen as incidental to President Trump’s mission to deport undocumented people from the country. But when I landed in Minneapolis on Monday and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America.
Pretty hard to call it a civil war when one side is the government killing and abducting people with impunity, and the only example of an ICE agent getting hurt or anything resembling consequences is he slipped and fell on the ice…
