Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is watching his city pulled into a conflict he insists it cannot survive. After ICE officers fatally shot Renee Good, then days later wounded a Venezuelan man in the leg, he warned that residents are now begging scarce local police to “fight ICE agents on the street” to protect their neighbors. He calls it an “impossible situation”: two arms of government edging toward open confrontation while communities already traumatized by past violence brace for more.
The fallout is spreading far beyond Minneapolis. In Santa Ana, 21‑year‑old college student Kaden Rummler was permanently blinded in his left eye after a DHS officer fired a “less‑lethal” round at close range during a protest over Good’s killing. Rummler says it’s a miracle he’s alive at all. Frey pleads for calm, urging people not to “take the bait,” even as federal tactics and Trump’s hard‑line agenda fuel the very chaos he says the nation can no longer afford.
