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One can only imagine how the recent tragic events might have been avoided if Minneapolis were not afflicted with reckless politicians who encourage interference with the enforcement of federal law. Now a local police union official is not just imagining, but stating plainly his informed opinion. Reuven Fenton and Anthony Blair report this morning from Minneapolis for the New York Post: The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents – saying if they had been involved, “there would be no loss of life.”… St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross blamed state and local officials for the anti-ICE protest violence — saying that if highly trained cops were allowed to work with the feds, it likely would have prevented the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti… “Had we been allowed just a little bit of coordination – not in terms of what ICE is doing, but if they say, ‘Hey, we need to go to this place to serve a warrant, we’re going to be out there a couple hours. We’re nervous that crowds are going to form and give us trouble. Can you come out and help?’ That’s something we can easily coordinate with a little bit of notice, and sometimes with hardly any notice, we can get out there quickly,” Ross said. This underlines that even if Minnesota’s politicians don’t want their police directly helping to enforce federal immigration law, the pols at least ought to allow local cops to protect federal officers who are lawfully
engaged in the enforcement of such laws. The Post report continues:
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