‘Something I Said’ Archives
The Resistance is Real
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE, as of February, downshifted from Operation Metro Surge’s disastrous all out occupation of South Minneapolis to a sinister method no less meant to run roughshod over civil rights. Local media reports document that, after the withdrawal from the state, nearly a thousand agents remained to spy on the area, near businesses and agricultural locales, conduct suburban surveillance and operate drones in the airspace above Somali and Mexican and Mexican American homes. Health care workers said agents even camped out in hospital parking lots. The idea is to sneak up on men, women and children, catch them unaware and spirit them away, the intent being to put them behind bars. Despite desperate fear in the face of ruthless storm trooper tactics, the community rose up and stood strong during the outcry against the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. In response to ICE switching gears, still determined to [...]
Pouring Gasoline on the Fire
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE’s approach in South Minneapolis has been to douse the fire by pouring gasoline on it.In the aftermath of Renee Good’s murder by agent Jonathan Ross, instead of reining ICE in, more were dispatched. Just as prone to gunplay. Two of whom, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Raymundo Gutierrez and Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, assigned to Operation Metro Surge, killed Alex Pretti. To make things worse, both deaths were falsely accounted for. Department of Homeland Security Secretary DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Renee Good “attempted to run a law enforcement officer over an act of domestic terrorism.” Video footage shows Good simply trying to wend her way through chaos as Ross shoots her through the driver’s window as he stands next to the car, in no danger of being hit at all, much less run over. Alex Pretti was helping a woman to her feet when an agent shoved them both to the [...]
Right Thing the Wrong Way
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE is doing the right thing the wrong way. The 2024 wholesale deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members videotaped terrorizing apartment residents of Aurora, Colorado was a desperately needed rescue action. It began a practice, though, by which, instead of targeting violent parasites who prey on those leading productive lives, federal law enforcement is, itself, wantonly destructive. For going on two years, South Minneapolis has seen Mexican immigrants and Mexican American citizens live in fear to the point of hysteria, making what used to be a humorous quip frighteningly real: because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Accordingly, it’s quite sensible that in January the Minneapolis City Council asked Gov. Tim Walz to institute an eviction moratorium. You go to work, get arrested and deported, you’re unable to pay rent. You don’t get deported but are detained too long, [...]
