Does anyone have a real solution to violence around ICE protests?

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Dear Editor:

Well, it’s really hit the fan now … I’m talking about the dire Minneapolis situation, of course.

The deaths of two U.S. citizens as they protested against ICE operations have put a different face on the ICE agents’ presence, as well as on the protests themselves. Talk about Separate Realities.

The latest incident, the shooting of a man who lost a frenzied fight on the street with ICE and Border Patrol agents, was video-taped from more angles than we see in an NFL replay. I have seen many of them and read the differing interpretations. There is no consensus. More views are set to come out as they break down the officers’ body cam shots.

As it is, one side says he was murdered, another side says he was armed and had intentions of his own. It really does not matter which is true – the damage is done, and the resulting stand-off makes for even more trouble than before. It’s a really messy fan.

So – one solution to the conundrum that is offered is for ICE to leave town, just as the protesters have been crying, shouting, and chanting for. This, of course, would give victory to the unruly mob and would encourage more of the same in other places.

Another solution would be for the Minnesota governor and the Minneapolis mayor to cooperate and give aid to the ICE process, stopping protection of the ICE targets. This would be political suicide for those leaders and a victory for the Administration.

It seems the deadlock is purely political in nature and propaganda flies in from all corners. The View expounds their version of the incident, The Five expounds theirs. Neither is strictly the truth.

Now, Tom Homan, the so-called “Border Czar,” has taken over the direction of the MN operation and is expected to bring order and perhaps a different strategy to the admin side of things. The governor and mayor have spoken with the President and are said to seek to have things become calmer, if possible – although they still seem to want to stir the passions of the people on the street.

Now, we learn of a third faction, a Socialist leaning organizer who uses social media to rally the troops to various hot-spot locations and to target the agents in a personal manner. It is all completely out of control. It is not unlike a war.

So, who is going to clean the fan? It doesn’t look very promising.

Morris Bedlam
Noblesville