The mass protests in Minneapolis against Trump’s immigration crackdown have the potential to spark a nationwide revolt.

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The mass protests in Minneapolis against Trump’s immigration crackdown have the potential to spark a nationwide revolt. Protesters are calling for a national general strike.

The proximate cause of public anger is the lethal violence of federal police raids against immigrants. But that abuse has broadened to trigger a wider range of popular anger with and repudiation of the Trump administration’s increasingly dictatorial conduct.

Two American citizens have now been gunned down in the street by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol. Videos have shown masked agents manhandling peaceful protesters, ramming doors of homes armed with assault rifles and without warrants, and snatching families into detention centers.

Scenes across U.S. cities now resemble how American troops kicked down doors in Afghanistan, Iraq, and numerous other foreign places.

Video footage proves that senior Trump administration officials have been telling barefaced lies to justify the brutal violence and violation of basic human rights.

The latest victim was Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and intensive care nurse, who was shot in the back as he was pinned to the ground by a group of border patrol agents. Pretti was a licensed gun holder whose pistol was removed from his waistband by the agents, who then shot him 10 times at point-blank range in the back. It was a public lynching.

Kristi Noem, Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” who “brandished a semi-automatic weapon” at officers. Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, claimed the nurse was intent on committing a massacre. He wasn’t. He was trying to help a woman who had been knocked to the ground by the agents.

Bystanders and several videos clearly show Pretti was not holding a gun. He was holding a mobile phone in the air, above his head, when immigration agents pepper-sprayed him and started beating him to the ground. He was not threatening any of them. He was shot dead without provocation. Executed.

Two weeks before that, on January 7, another Minneapolis resident, Renée Nicole Good, was shot in the face as she politely drove away from ICE officers. Again, Trump officials maligned her with claims that she “weaponized” her vehicle and was putting officers in danger, who shot her in self-defense. Her killer pointed his gun through the driver’s window and shot her point-blank in the head.

None of the killers has been charged. There have not even been criminal investigations. Local police forces have been prevented from securing the crime scenes.

The people of Minneapolis are furious and disgusted by Trump’s goon squads, who have descended on this and other cities under the guise of rounding up illegal aliens.

The cold-blooded murder of U.S. citizens has shocked the nation with a dreadful realization that Trump is running the country like a police state.   Even mainstream pundits like Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary under Clinton, are using words like “fascism” and “Gestapo” to describe what’s going on.

Worryingly for Trump, polls show that there is mounting public anger among all voters, Republicans, Democrats, and independents. There is a growing sense that the United States is descending into a despotic regime where the Constitutional rights of citizens are no longer respected.

The day after Alex Pretti was murdered, Trump’s top concern was griping about a legal challenge to stop plans for his new $400 million ballroom at the White House. Meanwhile, the First Lady was holding a private screening of a cheesy film, “Melania,” depicting her glamorous return to the White House after the 2024 election.

But it’s the blatant lies and slander being told about the victims of Trump’s immigration paramilitaries. People across the U.S. are sickened by the outrageous White House denials and impunity given to state killers, while innocent victims exercising their right to peaceful protest are denigrated as “domestic terrorists.”

In a telling move, Trump has made a U-turn in a “conciliatory” phone call to the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, about the violence in Minneapolis. The president is trying to back away from the false claims that were made by Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller.

Gregory Bovino, the ICE chief in Minneapolis, has been transferred. Tom Homan, the White House’s Border Czar, is taking over the anti-immigration operations.

These moves indicate that Trump realizes he is losing the issue of his immigration crackdown, which is being seen as a wider wedge for repressive federal power. A political powder-keg is building, and it needs to be defused.

Trump and his acolytes had for weeks been accusing Walz and other Democratic leaders of inciting the public protests against ICE and border patrol raids.

Trump claims the protests are a cover-up of widespread fraud of state funds by Somali immigrants that the Democrats have facilitated. There is scant evidence of this alleged scam, which appears to have been largely whipped up by MAGA-type influencers to justify the anti-immigrant crackdown.

Border Czar Homan is now reportedly mediating with Walz and other Democratic leaders to dampen the public fury over the ICE violence.

Trump reportedly told Governor Walz that he is considering withdrawing some ICE personnel from Minneapolis. But there is no guarantee that that will happen, nor is there any direction on launching criminal investigations of the ICE agents who have unlawfully killed two U.S. citizens.

It remains to be seen if the mass protests in Minneapolis and seething public repudiation of the Trump regime across the United States will be placated by the latest advertised moves to curtail ICE operations.

There have been growing, widespread calls for a general strike across the U.S. Those calls have come from communities and workers, not from the Democratic Party leadership. There appears to be a revolutionary mass movement to bring the entire country to a halt – infused with anger not just over ICE killings and abuses but also over exploding levels of wealth inequality and Trump’s overseas wars and support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The Democratic Party and the Republicans are two sides of the same coin when it comes to supporting capitalist corruption and inequality, and overseas wars. But the Democrats have always had a special function of diverting and defusing a radical public movement rejecting the War Party duopoly.

Trump’s police state has mobilized a wide rejection of the mainstream political and media establishment. Minneapolis is a potential historic turning point towards a genuinely radical popular movement based on values of equality and workers’ rights.

The conciliatory engagement by Democrats with Trump to de-escalate the violence on America’s streets that he has unleashed could end up channeling the protests into a safe dead-end of bipartisan compromise. Then again, the disgust and desire for radical change may be too big to contain.