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As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law

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The US Department of Homeland Security accused the slain woman of committing “an act of domestic terrorism” by “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me “garbage.” This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread conspiracy theories about the Somali community and me.

What does democratic socialism mean to Omar Fateh, Minneapolis mayoral candidate? “It’s pretty clear cut: you want to take care of everyone.”

In both Minneapolis and New York City, democratic socialist municipal candidates have made strides—and faced backlash from the Democratic establishment.

The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.

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