Charles Homans writes in the NYT about America unraveling in Minneapolis: ‘In the heightened atmosphere of the moment, the lines between documentation and confrontation had grown blurry. ICE officers, when they stuck around anywhere for more than a few minutes, were likely to be met by not just one or two camera-wielding observers but many, and observation inevitably turned into protest.’

Homans adds: ‘Someone pulled out a phone to show me a video of [Gregory] Bovino minutes earlier, personally lobbing a green-smoke grenade at some protesters, with the jocular informality of a backyard barbecue host tossing a tallboy to a newly arrived neighbor.’

The jocular informality with which the federal state turns against its citizens.

Another part of the article describes a family from Ecuador hiding in an apartment. Sometimes the Gestapo is more than a metaphor.

The US is still better than Iran. To end on an optimistic note.

(a sf 2038)