By The New York Post Editorial Board
Remarkably, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is right: Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis was “so preventable, so unnecessary” — that “protester” didn’t need to be blocking ICE agents in the first place, let alone gunning her SUV at them.
The left bears full blame for this bloodshed.
Her car hit the agent before he shot her; he wound up hospitalized.
Attack someone with a deadly weapon: That’s attempted assault in the eyes of the officers — even if it wasn’t intentional. So this is what happens.
Especially when you target a federal officer who’s simply doing his job.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin was entirely right to call this “an act of domestic terrorism.”
Yet Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rushed to blame Team Trump for … attempting to enforce the law?
Yes, it was aggressive for the feds to deploy some 2,000 immigration agents in Minneapolis this week — but far more aggressive for protesters to try to block them.
This follows months of Democrats cheering law-breaking protesters, calling for resistance to ICE as if it weren’t a duly constituted law enforcement agency.
They didn’t even drop that lunatic language after it inspired a guy to open fire on a Dallas ICE facility, ironically killing two illegal migrants.
Various lefties are tracking and live-posting federal agents’ locations, as well as doxxing their personal info — including addresses where their kids live.
The last year has seen hundreds of attacks on ICE and Border Patrol agents, all too often egged on by elected Democrats.
That madness has to stop; anyone who doesn’t like how the law is enforced is free to work to elect different leaders, and to advocate for different laws.
If you absolutely must object, then employ genuine, orderly civil disobedience and go peacefully off to jail afterward.
Frey’s instant demand that ICE “get the f–k out of Minneapolis” is tantamount to inciting riots, and utterly disgraceful.
He and Walz need to start calming the waters, lest more bloodshed follow.
If the civilians had just left the law enforcers alone, Renee Nicole Good would still be alive.
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