Literally. My friend David Zimmer wrote today, recounting how the sanctuary city movement started out benign enough: localities practicing a type of passive noncompliance with efforts to enforce federal immigration laws.
Now it’s degenerated into organized and violent confrontation with any and all federal authority, even with efforts unrelated to immigration.
I wrote early this week (Tuesday) about an incident in south Minneapolis, where federal authorities were executing a high-risk, court-signed search warrant in a case involving drug and human trafficking and money laundering. It was one of eight locations being searched, but the only one to generate a physical confrontation with protestors, not the subjects of the investigation.
At the same time, the state’s leading newspaper, the Star Tribune, is circling the drain, currently going through a round of buyouts and layoffs. But still, somehow, the paper was able to muster an incredible amount of resources to throw at the story. I will tell the tale through their headlines this week (so far):
Here’s the defendant charged:
In court records, Maxwell Louis Collyard is listed as a white male. More headlines,
That works out to four days, ten stories, and twelve by-lined reporters. All for an incident that lasted, maybe an hour?
Who says that journalism is dead?
