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On the evening of April 4, 1968—having just learned of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis—New York's U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy climbed onto a platform in Indianapolis to announce that shocking news to a primarily African-American crowd at the corner of Broadway and 17th Street.
Back then, Kennedy—the father of our current HHS Secretary—was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and his advisors tried to dissuade RFK from appearing at that event…citing security concerns and the potential for unrest once word of Dr. King's murder reached the crowd. But Bobby plowed ahead, saying it was his responsibility as a Democrat to break the sad news regardless of the danger and to urge his audience to grieve but not riot. Kennedy's courage and political leadership are credited with preventing the violence, which broke out in many other American cities that night, but not in Indianapolis.
Fast-forward to Wednesday this week, when an angry crowd surrounded ICE agents in Minneapolis engaged in ferreting out illegals as they enforced federal immigration laws in that so-called "sanctuary city." A 37-year-old woman named Renee Nicole Good was one of those protesters who used her Honda Pilot to block ICE personnel, impeding their legal operation. ICE agents with weapons drawn reportedly ordered her to exit her vehicle; instead, video appeared to show her Honda Pilot making contact with an ICE agent and knocking him down as he suddenly opened fire, instantly killing the woman.
Unlike Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, did not urge compassion........