Minneapolis Protesters Force Random White Guy To Prove He’s Not ICE

The following is an edited transcript from The Michael Knowles Show.

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Because of the anarchy that has been allowed — and even encouraged — to fester by the Left, there are now liberals walking around Minneapolis stopping random, nice, white dads and demanding that they prove they’re not ICE.

Liberals protesting ICE thought this man was an ICE agent, so they stopped him to make sure he wasn’t. pic.twitter.com/17xrVAJLvN

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Watching this, two TV scenes immediately came to mind. The first is from Breaking Bad, when Walter White tries to negotiate with the drug dealers who are about to kill his brother-in-law. He thinks he can reason with them. His brother-in-law tells him, “What are you talking about? They made up their mind ten minutes ago.”

The other scene is from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, when Frank says, “Yeah, they started coming up to me and I didn’t know what they wanted, so I started blasting.”

I certainly don’t encourage the latter — but those are two very different approaches to the same situation.

The guy in this video seems to think these people are being reasonable. This band of leftists — they’re not black-masked Antifa terrorists. They just look dopey and annoying. Awful, insolent white twenty-somethings.

They demand, “Prove that you’re not ICE.” And he responds, “Okay, all right, I’ll show you the back of my SUV — but I don’t have to do this.” Then he adds, “I appreciate you guys.” Really? He appreciate them going around to random middle-aged white guys and demanding that they prove they’re not law enforcement?

If they were law enforcement, they would have no right to do this. Actual law enforcement should be arresting these kids just for asking the question, because they’re clearly obstructing law enforcement and criminal investigations.

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But this — this is what you get when ICE doesn’t enforce the law. This is what you get when state and local authorities refuse to enforce the law. All of a sudden, you have bands of vigilantes going around singling people out.

Why are they singling this guy out? Do they seriously think he’s law enforcement?

No. They’re singling him out based on his race, sex, and age — because they don’t like middle-aged white guys. That’s what’s happening here. And this dope is walking around saying, “All right, listen, I respect what you’re doing. I don’t have to do this, but I respect it. (Please don’t—please don’t gang up on me.)”

Luckily, the group here seems to be just as dopey as he is. They don’t appear to pose much of a threat — at least not in this moment. But we’ve seen these kinds of left-wing gangs commit real violence. And we’ve seen even bourgeois, middle-class white liberals justify that violence — something that shows up clearly in a lot of social-scientific surveys.

That’s what you get.