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How Minnesota's civic culture fueled a tough ICE resistance, took feds by surprise
They can’t seem to believe it. Federal officials, talking about Minneapolis all over the place, keep stressing just how unusual this resistance is.
They’ve never seen anything like it.
“In one city — in one city we have this outrage and this powder keg happening," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said recently on Fox News. “And it’s not right. And it doesn’t happen anywhere else.”
Blanche and all the others have been blaming Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. Alternatively, they smear “paid agitators.”
But the federal cowboys who flooded Minnesota streets actually ran headfirst into the state’s formidable civil society — a network of civically engaged people and organizations that makes this a risky place for the federal government to pick a fight with its own citizens. And the bold response has set an example for the rest of the country that may complicate the Trump administration stomping on some other state.
They’ve never seen anything like it.
“In one city — in one city we have this outrage and this powder keg happening," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said recently on Fox News. “And it’s not right. And it doesn’t happen anywhere else.”
Blanche and all the others have been blaming Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. Alternatively, they smear “paid agitators.”
But the federal cowboys who flooded Minnesota streets actually ran headfirst into the state’s formidable civil society — a network of civically engaged people and organizations that makes this a risky place for the federal government to pick a fight with its own citizens. And the bold response has set an example for the rest of the country that may complicate the Trump administration stomping on some other state.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-resistance/601571139
https://archive.is/suE9S
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Leader can't understand is compassion, empathy and community. And that's where his Achilles heel is found.
Bravo Minnesota, bravo Minneapolis!
Mahao
Good on ya, Minnesota! 
Now that is a kick in the teeth to the chief criminal.
Minneapolis has inspired the world!!!