OTHERS SAY: A needless death in Minneapolis |
Every last American should agree the death in Minneapolis of a 37-year-old American mother of three at the hands of a gun wielded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an abomination, an indicator of domestic crisis and, we fear, a harbinger of worse to come.
When armed, hardened, stressed and poorly trained ICE and Border Patrol agents descended on our city, accompanied by infuriated and thus unpredictable protesters and impeders who do not support either their mission or their existence, we said that someone is going to get badly hurt, and our concern extended to the agents as well as to those who oppose them.
To our minds, Wednesday's horror, those kids who lost a........