OPINION:
The shooting death of a woman in Minnesota on Wednesday is tragic, and a thorough, unbiased investigation is warranted (“Vance says ICE officer’s fatal shooting of victim in Minneapolis was ‘tragedy of her own making,’” Web, Jan. 8). Yet here we go again in Minneapolis, just like with George Floyd in 2020 and in other situations in which people resist arrest or blatantly defy direct orders from armed authorities carrying out their sworn duties.
The risk of disobeying and resisting legally sanctioned orders should seem obvious to anyone. It is reasonable and less risky to one’s personal safety to comply with commands from those holding legal authority and superior power to enforce the command. It’s a sign of a society gone wrong when people believe they can do whatever they want whenever they want with impunity. That’s a society doomed to implode.
If Minnesota had followed duly enacted federal legislation regarding illegal immigration, then U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not be swarming the streets of Minneapolis to corral people in the country illegally. Minnesota’s tolerance for ignoring and breaking the law is to blame for its current circumstances. The state has created all this with its permissiveness.
DAVID P. LAMONT
Dunnellon, Florida
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