The Tide Is Turning in Minnesota. But This Is Just the Beginning.

"Signs of cracks in the anti-immigrant right abound, from the alleged ouster of Greg Bovino from his role as "commander at large" of Customs and Border Protection to President Donald Trump's TACO turn offering up an olive branch to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Monday. Republican luminaries who are usually content to deflect, attack, or ritually fellate the president in the wake of acts of lawlessness and violence have taken to the airwaves to condemn these public executions,"

"All credit-all of it-goes to the people on the ground in Minnesota; protesters, monitors, neighborhood patrols, independent journalists. As Robert F. Worth noted in the Atlantic, for all the MAGA talk of "domestic terrorists" and woke "assassins," what's emerged on the streets of Minneapolis is an organic, homegrown "meticulous urban choreography of civic protest," a movement that is "leaderless" and "hyperlocal.""

On-camera killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by Department of Homeland Security agents in Minnesota triggered widespread political and corporate backlash. Republican governors and conservative outlets publicly condemned the incidents and demanded systemic reforms to immigration enforcement. Gun rights organizations argued that legally carrying firearms in public cannot justify summary executions by federal officers. CEOs of major Minnesota companies called for deescalation. Local protesters, monitors, neighborhood patrols, and independent journalists organized persistent, leaderless, hyperlocal demonstrations characterized as meticulous urban choreography of civic protest.

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