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Not the sci-fi guy. MKE dad. @csbsju @ucc @columbia grad. Writer. Rushmore: Kirby, Bird, KG, Giannis, Billy Mills. Let's go Ireland!
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The People of Minneapolis Will Simply Not Let the ICE Thugs Prevail

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By Dan Simmons Verified
| Yahoo Verified
The blood pooled in the snowbank, seeping into the thick sheet of ice below. On this corner, at 34th Street and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis, this was a reminder, visual and visceral, of Renee Good’s death by gunshots fired in daylight, for all to see, by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Federal officials had moved her lifeless body here after Ross fired multiple shots into her as she drove away from him, and first responders did their best to revive her.
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The People of Minneapolis Will Simply Not Let the ICE Thugs Prevail

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By Dan Simmons Verified
| The New Republic Verified
I was fortunate to know that changing Minnesota through my parents. They taught in the public schools, which meant they worked with whatever kids showed up from the community. For my dad, that meant teaching the early Hmong arrivals in the 1980s, the kids by day and the adults learning English at night, at St. Paul Central High. For my mom, it meant teaching Somali immigrants at Lyndale Elementary in the early 2000s.
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The People of Minneapolis Will Simply Not Let the ICE Thugs Prevail

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By Dan Simmons Verified
| Reader Supported News
A protest against ICE after the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 10. (photo: Charly Triballeau/Getty) A native son explains why attempts to permanently undo the last half-century of societal change are destined to fail because the people who live here just won’t allow it. The blood pooled in the snowbank, seeping into the thick sheet of ice below.
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