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Mike Shulman's avatar

The federal playbook was tone deaf at minimum. The knee jerk, uninformed response of local leaders like Chavez was embarrassing. I feel like I’m watching a ping pong match.

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georrge rogers's avatar

One of the eight raids that came day was at a tenplex across the street from me where a search warrant was executed for what an agent told one of us was a "top secret investigation." No Mpls police were involved. The identifiable agencies were HSI and ATF. The search lasted three hours and a resident of the raided unit told neighbors that they seemed to be interested in a tenant who hadn't lived there for a couple of years. The only vehicles were unmarked pickup trucks with darkened windows. Neighbors are organizing for future responses. We are fortunate to have both a social worker and a therapist on our block.

There was collateral damage because two residents of the unit were taken into ICE custody and transported to Iowa and Albert Lea.

I'm tempted to say that Mpls should refuse to provide cops for crowd control for raids such as last week's if the feds don't provide advance notice to MPD. But the experience of LA shows that events can spiral out of control and people can get hurt and tear gas can drift into neighborhoods. Call me naive but I believe that MPD is living up to the city sanctuary policy. Serving as a buffer between raiders and those reacting to raids isn't outing undocumented residents and can help people from getting hurt.

I think the focus of the after-action report should be how to get correct information out of residents when there's such a raid so that incorrect assumptions aren't made.

My church is largely comprised of immigrants, many of them undocumented. First, the are great hard-working people, Second, they are on edge. Let's support them as we can.

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