Democrats celebrate victories in Minneapolis amidst ongoing violence and political tensions.
There are two stories happening right now involving Minneapolis. One involves a shooting by federal agents of a protester. The other is a political battle of wills between federal officials led by the Trump administration and Minnesota officials and progressives everywhere. The two stories are deeply connected at this point mostly thanks to Democrats who are running the BLM playbook in Minneapolis and especially with the two shootings that have happened there.
Just to put this in perspective, two weeks ago 13 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend and two of them died. I don’t know the names of the people who were killed or really anything about them and neither does anyone else. I’m sure there are people who care about them but those people aren’t elected officials trying to score points against the Trump administration so they aren’t going to be on the news.
Oh, but those shootings are private matters that don’t involve police. Well two police officers were shot by a murder suspect in Corpus Christi last week and one is still in critical condition. You haven’t heard about them (unless you live in Texas maybe) because, again, that’s not the thing we’re being told is the only thing that matters right now which is ICE in Minneapolis.
Oh, but those were cops who got shot. We’re only interested in people shot by law enforcement. Well, two people were shot in Phoenix yesterday by police and one of them died. The family claims the police shot the wrong guy. This may be a case of misconduct of some kind I don’t know. You probably haven’t heard about that either unless you live in Phoenix.
I could go on but hopefully you get the idea. There are all sorts of shootings taking place around the country every day and none of them are getting the Zapruder film treatment from the NY Times and the except for the one that matters to elected Democrats and progressive activists. That one is sucking up all the oxygen in the room because the shootings can be blamed on the Trump administration.
