Two Americans have been killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this month, and nothing has changed.
The attorney who advised the ICE agent after the first killing quit the governor’s race after the second. He called the whole operation an unmitigated disaster and the civil warrant raids unconstitutional. Trump held a two hour meeting with Noem while Miller stayed away, and even a Bush appointed judge on the 8th Circuit said he would have kept limits on pepper spraying protesters.
None of it mattered. The full panel cleared the way for federal agents to continue acting without restriction and didn’t even mention that a man had been killed two days earlier. Three thousand federal agents remain in Minnesota, and the operation continues.
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