[...] The last time an armed government presence on this scale was deployed in the Twin Cities was in 2021, when about 3,000 Minnesota National Guard soldiers were activated during the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617
Derek Chauvin. That lowlife. Can anyone truly question that this is payback?
The deployment of 3,000 federal immigration agents to #Minnesota - a force exceeding the combined manpower of the region's ten largest police departments -has triggered significant legal and political conflict, with local officials alleging that the operation's aggressive tactics, resource strain, and disproportionate scale are a response to political "retribution" rather than demographic necessity.



