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Why ICE agents hide their faces

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By Brandon Ambrosino, Colton Bernasol, Michael Woolf, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Barbara Crooker
| Christian Century Verified
We are becoming more familiar with this threatening figure. He was in Los Angeles, then in DC. He was in Chicago for nearly all of fall. He was sent to New York. He has been spotted in North Carolina, too. He is tall, broad-shouldered, and foreboding. He dresses in black, camouflage, and military green. He straps on a bulletproof vest. His pants are cargo, and his baseball cap has no logo. In Minneapolis, he shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. And he is hardly alone.
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Minneapolis clergy exposed to pepper spray after rushing to scene of deadly ICE shooting

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By Brandon Ambrosino, Michael Woolf, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Barbara Crooker
| Christian Century Verified
People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene of a shooting involving federal law enforcement, January 7, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Baker) At least two pastors were among those shoved, shot at with pepper rounds, and exposed to pepper spray while protesting the actions of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Wednesday, as protesters demonstrated after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman who had been observing them.
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Wreckage and euphoria

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By Barbara Crooker, Jack Jenkins, Aleja Hertzler- McCain Verified, Heidi Neumark
| Christian Century Verified
On the dedication page of Barbara Crooker’s new poetry collection, we read that her book is “For Richard, da cuore.” The Italian phrase can mean “with all my heart,” or even “from heart to heart.” The Richard in question is her husband, who died in 2021 after 46 years of marriage. And so, from the very start of this volume we are alerted to the kind of journey these poems will take: to loss, decline, and death. What can counter these inevitabilities?
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