White House can't spin killings, cruely in Mineapolis

By Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg Opinion

Over the course of the last many days, indelible images have dominated the White House’s mass deportation efforts in Minnesota.

A teary-eyed five-year-old named Liam Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack, and bound for a Texas detention facility. A man pinned to the ground by federal agents as another sprays a chemical agent in his face. ChongLy “Scott” Thao led out of his house in boxers in the falling snow. 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; and 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 headed out of the country. But ordinary citizens with cell phones and whistles have shifted the narrative.

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