Thirteen years ago, in response to the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz dropped an incredibly necessary F-bomb on live television.
Yesterday, in response to the despicable killing of Renee Good by a masked ICE agent, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey used an even more justified profanity. His statement is angry, it is powerful, and it is worth watching.1 I’ll quote part of it here:
They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bullshit. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.
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I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE. To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized, and now, somebody is dead. That’s on you.
Let’s go one further. ICE should get the fuck out of existence.
Footnotes:
The full video is archived here. ↩︎
