There’s a lot of noise out there about what happened in Minneapolis today. But what
@ScottJenningsKY just told the CNN panel cuts through ALL of it.
This isn’t about one incident. This is a dangerous pattern within modern society.
JENNINGS: “It strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now.”“
Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis, but all over the country in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?”“
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This is not an isolated incident. We’ve had hundreds of car ramming's against ICE agents across the country.”“
According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE agents around. Why are people believing that they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation, and that’s somehow appropriate?”“I understand they don’t like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law… but that’s not how we change laws in this country.”“
If you don’t like the law, you talk to politicians. You don’t drive your car into the middle of a building or a law enforcement situation.”“
If I don’t like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes, I don’t drive my car into the Treasury Department. I call my congressman.”“
Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to, quote, ‘put your bodies on the line.’”“
And Governor Tim Walz has been calling these guys Gestapo all year.”“What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people like this?!”
