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COLUMNIST: The killings and cruelty in Minneapolis can’t be spun

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28.01.2026

Over the course of the last many days, indelible images have dominated the White House's mass deportation efforts in Minnesota. A teary-eyed 5-year-old named Liam Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack, bound for a Texas detention facility. A man pinned to the ground by federal agents as another sprays a chemical agent in his face. Renee Good saying, "I'm not mad at you," seconds before being shot and killed.

Now there is Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, first filming border agents on his phone, then on his knees surrounded by masked Border Patrol agents--then, seconds later, shot dead.

President Donald Trump is said to be privately frustrated with the images coming out of Minneapolis.

To this administration, mass deportation was the stuff of cinema. It has pumped out slickly produced videos of "the worst of the worst" loaded up on cargo planes and........

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