Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.

Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.

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      In France if tuition is raised 2% or retirement age raised by 2 years, the entire country empties into the streets and life comes to a halt.

      Here, just bitch online until distracted by the next episode of It.

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        Do people lose any semblance of a safety net if they lose their job in France? No? They won’t die of uncontrolled medical problems or see their child starve because they decided to stand up and make a point?

        Not exactly comparable, then, is it?

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          How do you think they got to that point.

          And reaching that point means they don’t lose their jobs over protesting.

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      The strategy right now is peaceful nonviolence. It doesn’t make for exciting headlines, but it’s really the only viable strategy.

      https://youtu.be/UGGD7iScVhw

      The fascist’s next move in the playbook is to gain more power by declaring martial law. Each dead ICE agent gives them fuel to make it happen.