Trump is determined to punish states and cities that didn’t vote for him. So he sent large numbers of masked ICE agents to bully, beat, harass, and intimidate people in blue places, while recklessly killing two protestors.
He unleashed his fury on Minneapolis, sending in 3,000 ICE agents. They must have been trained to act like Brown Shirts because they do. They don’t just arrest people. They grab them, throw them to the ground, punch them, kick them, ziptie them, toss them into a van, picking up people who “look like” immigrants, and disappear them.
The people of Minneapolis resisted. They resisted with such determination that they forced Trump to back down. DHS announced that it will pull its occupying force out of Minneapolis. Everyone is waiting to see if ICE is really leaving. They will believe it when they see it.
Other cities and communities can learn from Minneapolis. The ICE bullies may soon be sent to your city, your community.
The resistance began immediately. People set up an alarm system, letting others know where ICE was operating. People protected their neighborhoods and communities. They turned out to blow whistles, to film ICE actions on their cell phones, and peacefully protest by their presence
Wherever ICE went, volunteers documented what they did. These videos proved to be powerful evidence of ICE brutality and lies.
Renee Good was murdered at one such protest. The White House and Department of Homeland Security called her a domestic terrorist and said she tried to run over an ICE agent, but multiple videos proved that they were lying.
Alex Pretti was murdered when he tried to help a fellow protestor who had been knocked on her back by ICE goons. He was filming with his cellphone. They called him a terrorist and an assassin, but again they were lying.
The people of Minneapolis treated each other as friends and neighbors and organized a powerful resistance. Volunteers organized to deliver food to people afraid to leave home. They drove people who were afraid to take public transit.
Schools protected their students as best they could. Many children from immigrant families were afraid to leave home. The schools went online to keep them learning. Schools stockpiled food for students and their families; volunteers delivered it. Teachers made home visits to check on students.
Columbia Academy, a middle school in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, became “a food bank, a counseling hotline, a missing persons task force, an immigration resource center and a refuge.”
Leslee Sheri, the principal of the school in Columbia Heights, a five-school district, said:
“We are the first call,” said Sherk, a first-year principal who has worked in the district for two decades. “They don’t call the police. They don’t even sometimes call their neighbors or different organizations. They call the school.”
Neighbors helped neighbors. Neighbors helped strangers. The people of Minneapolis reacted with surprising solidarity in opposition to the aggressive militarization of their city.
They stood up, often in bitter cold, spoke out, protected the vulnerable, and demonstrated what democracy, courage l, and compassion looks like.
They won.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is what a true american neighborhood is suppose to act like. I only wish all our cities were like those in Minnesota.
The bad part is that many businesses took a toll. Many closed and many lost their customers because of that fear of being snatched.
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I obviously do not know what the Trump regime wanted to happen in Minneapolis, but my best guess is that they hoped for a moment not unlike the one in 2020 when the video assault on George Floyd threw the nation into protest. MAGA thought there should have been martial law declared then, and they desperately wanted it this winter as a pretense for postponing elections next fall.
this makes the debacle even more dramatic. Had real violence erupted, it would have played directly into the hands of the Proud Boy faction of MAGA, and martial law would have been a public relations coup that could be turned into an actual coup. As it is, MAGA is shedding votes like a dog shed its hair in spring. So we don’t see many confrontations in Minneapolis, and we hear of a draw down in numbers.
I think we can bet that all this affair was designed to publicize violence with the hope most Americans would shrug since it was in a Somali community. Perhaps ICe or Border Patrol had its own Einstatz Grupen designed for this moment. I would bet it depends on Proud Boys pardoned after Jan 6, but that is unsubstantiated given the anonymity of the police force.
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