"Crowds gathered again in Minneapolis on Wednesday, marching through the same streets where some of them were protesting 5 years ago after Floyd's murder. The full force and fury of the federal government had landed on Minnesota. You will be held accountable for your crimes, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday, as the largest immigration enforcement action in agency history surged into the state. It felt like she was addressing all Minnesotans, not just the handcuffed man she paraded before the cameras."
"Minnesotans reeled as masked ICE agents descended on the state. They said they'd come to root out fraud. They tackled people to the ground in city parks and harassed parents and children on the way to school. They shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who would still be alive if ICE had never come to town. Get the f**k out of Minneapolis, said Mayor Jacob Frey."
"Five and a half years ago, police tried to pass Floyd's murder off as a medical incident. On Wednesday, Noem accused a dead woman killed by an agent who fired into her vehicle, on camera, at point-blank range of being a domestic terrorist. The president claimed on social media that Good had run over the agent who shot her, despite clear video evidence from other angles that this was untrue."
Renee Nicole Good and George Floyd represent separate tragedies that produced similar community grief over betrayal by those meant to protect and serve. Crowds marched again through Minneapolis streets where protesters gathered after Floyd's murder five years earlier. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared that federal agents would hold people accountable as the largest immigration enforcement action in the agency's history arrived. Masked ICE agents descended, tackled people in parks, harassed parents and children on the way to school, and shot and killed a 37-year-old woman. Mayor Jacob Frey demanded that ICE leave Minneapolis, while the president repeated a claim contradicted by video evidence.
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