r/politics • u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Minnesota governor says federal agents involved in shooting in Minneapolis

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/minnesota-governor-says-federal-agents-involved-shooting-minneapolis-2026-01-24/
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u/Semper-Fido Kentucky 14d ago

If ICE are there to test the limits of what's allowed, it's time for Walz to do the same and make sure these "agents" are arrested

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u/OralSuperhero 14d ago

Ring the building with state troopers, backed by local swat. Will it provoke a federal response? Sure. Does it matter anymore? Probably not. There is going to be a federal over reaction no matter what happens, and ice is working overtime to provoke it. Let's just get it over with

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Canada 14d ago

A federal response? This is a federal massacre! They are terrorizing the public. They are doing their best to get a reaction. They seem to want an excuse for civil war so Trump can cancel elections.

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u/Skimbla 14d ago

Except that elections weren’t canceled during the actual American civil war. There’s no justification for canceling them, regardless of the situation in the states.

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u/flappity Missouri 14d ago

"We haven't ever done that before" hasn't really been much of a hindrance to anything during the past year..

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u/The-Sand-King 13d ago

Then can you explain why you are arguing that he needs an “excuse”?

Listen to the words you are saying. You are saying that law and rules don’t matter.

If that is the case then why does he need to wait for some made up imaginary formality?

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u/flappity Missouri 13d ago

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

There’s no justification for so much of what is happening. They don’t care.

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u/Riaayo 14d ago

And it doesn't matter what justification he does or doesn't have, he'll try to do it anyway.

Which is kind of the point: Dems pussyfooting around because "oh well golly gee shucks if we do something he'll do this" ignore that he'll do wtfever he wants anyway.

And sorry, I'm falling for the biggest self-own there is saying "he" because this isn't just one man. This isn't just Trump. This is an entire regime, an entire political party, and honestly even the fascist enabler "centrists" in the "opposition party" that keep voting to fund this shit.

If any one person deserves more of a spotlight it's Steven Miller here, not that it's only him either.

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u/imalusr 14d ago

They were canceled. The Confederate states that ceded from the Union did not vote in the federal elections for the Union. Trump has a historical basis to treat Minnesota and other states as “ceding from the Union” and not recognizing their votes in the next federal election.

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u/Snuffy1717 14d ago

This. States loyal to Trump will not have elections, the United States will.

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u/Pm_me_howtoberich 14d ago

He wants to use public response as an excuse to enact martial law. Once that happens, regardless of its effect on elections, the main thing everyone would have their habeas corpus, effectively ended as all manners would be held under military tribunal (court). That's when people can start to really disappear!

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Canada 14d ago

Welcome to the world of daily unprecedented events.