Epicenter of Corruption

I am going to devote this article to the nurse who was viciously murdered. The loss of a caring, loving, innocent person must be recognized. It should not be brushed under the rug and forgotten. We should talk about it. I’m not referring to, Alex Pretti, the idiot in Minneapolis who thought it was a brilliant idea to obstruct federal agents performing their lawful duties and then brandish a firearm. That guy signed his own death warrant. I’m referring to Laken Riley. The 22-year-old nursing student who was brutally raped and murdered by Jose Ibarra, the criminal alien who Joe Biden let into this country and who was let off by liberal judges after he was arrested for violent crimes. If you did not shed a tear or post a social media message about Laken Riley, spare me your crocodile tears over Alex Pretti. Laken Riley went out for a jog when she was brutally murdered; Alex Pretti decided to attack federal agents and pull a gun on them when he was justifiably shot and killed. If Alex Pretti decided to go for a jog yesterday, he would still be alive because the criminal aliens like the ones that he was attempting to prevent from being deported only like to rape and murder beautiful women and young children. 

The violent protests in Minneapolis which have recently resulted in the shooting of two violent protesters are designed to have protesters shot and killed by ICE agents. That is the purpose of these protests, to create such a violent chaotic environment that people end up dead and therefore, ICE can be vilified. I’m going to give the same amount of sympathy to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti that those two gave to the 100,000 people who die of drug overdoses each year due to open borders and criminal aliens, and those hundreds of women who have been raped and murdered by criminal aliens. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in the process of obstructing federal agents from removing criminal alien rapists and drug cartel members. They did not care about the trail of death left by those violent criminals who come into this country illegally. If they did, they would have been supporting ICE agents not obstructing them.

Does anyone remember the name Justine Damond? Of course, you don’t. Nobody does because nobody cared. She was a 40-year-old white Australian born United States citizen, and on July 15, 2017, in Minneapolis, she was unarmed and fatally shot by a Somali Muslim Police Officer Mohamed Noor after she called 911 to report a sexual assault that was occurring behind her home in Minneapolis. When Damond approached Noor's squad car, he fired his gun through his car window, killing her. She was never a threat to him. Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2019, but his murder conviction was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court, and he was released from prison in 2022. No riots. No protests. Mark Ruffalo did not wear a special pin for her on the red carpet. No one cared. No one. No murals. No sections of downtown Minneapolis renamed in her honor. She was a veterinarian, a spiritual healer and meditation coach, while George Floyd was a convicted felon armed robber and drug addict.

The Minnesota Timberwolves postposed their game with the Golden State Warriors last night because of the ICE shooting yesterday in Minneapolis. Did the Minnesota Twins postpone their game vs. the Houston Astros on July 15, 2017, the night that Justine Damond was brutally shot and killed by law enforcement? No. They beat the Astros 4-2 behind Ervin Santana 6 inning, 2 earned run performance. Justine Damond was doing nothing wrong other than trying to save a woman from being sexually assaulted when she was gunned down in cold blood by a Somali police officer. Alex Pretti attacked an ICE officer and pulled out a gun. But Minnesota professional sports stops for him, but not for the white woman who was murdered in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey laid out an ultimatum to President Trump, “To President Trump… let’s end this operation and I’m telling you, our city will come back, safety will be restored.” Is that how it works? The federal government is legally enforcing laws that are inconvenient to your political agenda, so you stir up the citizens to commit acts of violence and riots against the federal agents until the agents leave? The reason why there is violence in the streets because of this operation is because Jacob Frey has told the Minneapolis police to stand down and not to protect ICE agents. He has refused to allow ICE agents into the jails. He lets the criminal aliens out onto the streets, and then he encourages citizens to resist and obstruct ICE agents in the processing of recapturing the criminal aliens that he just let back onto the streets. Minnesota Representative Democrat Brad Tabke was recently exposed for posting real time locations of ICE agents, endangering their lives and encouraging chaos in the streets.

In response to the shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O-Hara said, “even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.” So, he is advocating for mob rule. The facts, the evidence, the truth do not matter. If the mob is outraged, let’s go grab our pitchfork and torches, and lynch the ICE agent for properly performing his lawful duties.

He will never acknowledge that the violence we are witnessing in the streets has been created by the “protesters” who have been encouraged by the Democrat politicians to obstruct and interfere with the ICE agents. ICE is conducting operations in many other cities throughout the country and there is not this chaos and shootings. It is only happening in Minneapolis at the behest of the Mayor of Minneapolis and the Governor of the state. 23% of all ICE arrests occur in Texas, only 2.2% occur in Minnesota. There are no protests, riots, shooting, violence surrounding the ICE arrests in Texas. It is only in Minnesota.

President Trump quickly fired back at Frey’s ultimatum in a post on Truth Social, writing, “LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!”

67 illegal immigrants died in ICE custody, not under Trump, but under the Obama administration. Not one protest. Not one riot. They do not care about the welfare of illegal immigrants; they only care about stopping Trump. Under Obama, Tom Homan deported over 920,000 illegal immigrants one year. He received the Presidential medal of freedom. Under Trump, he has deported 290,000 illegal immigrants and he is being called a Nazi. In 8 years, Obama deported 5,248,893 illegals from the country. The Democrats in Minnesota are now using the Minneapolis Police and the National Guard to set-up ICE no-go zones to protect the illegal aliens.

Everything that we are witnessing, all of the manufactured violence and deaths are all about stopping Trump. They have to stop Trump because Minneapolis is the epicenter of leftwing fraud in this country and it hinges on having as many illegals in America as possible.  They want to end ICE’s operation because they are getting nearer to the truth, nearer to exposing the massive fraud in Minneapolis, which infects the entire Democrat party.

The existence of the Democrat party is based on fraud and stealing elections through mass illegal immigration. They cannot win elections without committing massive voter fraud. They pushed to count illegal aliens in the census because if we count them, they go towards apportionment which determines federal funds distribution and the number of congressional seats. Then they open the border and the liberal non-profits use taxpayer money to move those illegals to the battleground states into blue sanctuary cities. They allow the illegals to get on welfare even though the law says they are not allowed. And then the Democrat politicians allow or help perpetuate the fraud because that is the only way to keep the illegal aliens in these cities, voting Democrats. And this is all hidden in plain sight. The Democrats admit to the fraud through their votes.

In April of 2025, 208 House Democrats voted against the SAVE act which prevents noncitizens from participating in American elections through voter ID laws. In Virginia, Democrats just introduced a bill that would make it illegal to enforce immigration laws within 40 feet of a polling place. I thought illegals were not voting. So, there should already be no enforcement of immigration laws near at polling places. The Dems in Virginia are worried that the illegals would not show up to the polls if there is a chance they will be nabbed by ICE. A week after Nick Shirley exposed the massive $9B fraud scandal in Minnesota, Democrats in Virginia filed a bill that would prevent the government from investigating its own state for fraud. Only politicians who are committing fraud would pass a bill making it illegal to investigate for government fraud.

Another person died on the altar of Democrat corruption. Instead of committing massive voter fraud, stealing billions of dollars from the government, letting millions of illegal immigrants into our country who hate us, hate our culture and hate our country, in order to win elections, why don’t the Democrat politicians like Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom, Jacob Frey, adopt a platform that the American people want, that they will vote for, that makes America great? 

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.