Here’s a story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that I think captures the whole MAGA / normal folks dynamic. I don’t know if the gift link will work, but the gist of it is that two women were being driven to a federal detention center (“Whipple”) in Minneapolis, presumably because they were protesting, and an ICE agent in the car began to have a seizure. None of the poorly trained shitty ICE agents in the car knew what to do, so the women begged them to pull over, and they offered first aid to the agent, who had multiple seizures (so it sounds like he had something seriously wrong). When it was done, this ensued:
By the time emergency medical responders arrived, the women had been holding the agent steady for several minutes. They were detained but acting as first responders to the man who had detained them.
Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.
“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”
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What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.
“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.
Her mind went immediately to Renee Good.
Earlier this month, Good, a citizen observer and U.S. citizen, was shot three times by an ICE agent during an enforcement action in Minneapolis. According to witnesses and officials, a person who identified themselves as a medic was not permitted to provide care after the shooting. Agents said ICE had its own medical personnel. Several minutes passed before aid was rendered. Good died at the scene.
ICE has said its agents followed protocol.
The two women said the contrast between the incidents was difficult to ignore.
“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.
“It’s important for people to know how ill-prepared they are,” Amundson said. “And how untrained.”
This is where we’ll be in a couple of years, Dios mediante. We will be cleaning up MAGA’s shit from the bed where they were rolling around, and no credit will be given.
Also, good on the Star-Tribune for reporting a story without both-sidesing it, and good on Minneapolis and the rest of Minnesota for showing up yesterday.
