I’ve watched the news with horror and sadness the killing of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti during the ICE protests in Minneapolis. I’m 85 years old and the only place that I’ve see anything comparable to this was in North Korea and Russia. Goode was shot three times in the face at point blank range through the windshield and open window of her car. Pretti was taken to the ground by at least six ICE agents and shot by two agents ten times. The first shots were in his back. His last act on this earth was trying to help a woman who had been pepper sprayed and knocked to the ground. While he was being shot one ICE agent was clapping in approval.

The Trump administration has tried to convince us not to believe our own eyes and to believe their lies, such as they were paid agitators, domestic terrorists, that the law by bringing a gun to a protest (he had a legal permit to do so) that Pretti charged ICE agents with a pointed gun to massacre as many of them as possible.

These same Trump officials said nothing when Trump supporters came to protests with assault rifles hung around their necks, when hundreds of them stormed the capital on Jan. 6 2021, many with guns, assaulting cops, busting down doors and windows in an attempt to overthrow an election.

I’ve seen ICE agents entering homes without a warrant, busting out car windows, dragging women by the hair on their heads, shoving and beating protestors. This is not the America that I grew up in and have always loved.

Finding a speck of truth coming out of the Trump administration is like trying to find a lost ball in a field full of high weeds.

America is a crossroad, the republican congress could stop this rogue president but they are cowards. The American people are the only ones that can save our democracy and that’s what is going on in Minneapolis today. The power of the people has always been greater than the people in power.

That great conservative Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”

And finally if you could rip the masks off those jack-booted thugs, just how many of them are pardoned Jan. 6 criminals?