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Letter to the editor: Phony protests

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1 Min Read Jan. 24, 2026 | 20 hours Ago
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The constant anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and other Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities are becoming mob riots. Democrats and their media sycophants try to tell the public that these are peaceful protests, but in my opinion, they have become illegal, violent actions against law enforcement personnel and against law-abiding citizens, including storming a church, terrorizing parishioners and even children in search of what the rioters claimed was a pastor who reportedly was also an ICE officer.

Blocking law officers’ vehicles and throwing rocks, fireworks and molotov cocktails at officers are not peaceful protests. Stopping traffic and attacking a church are not peaceful protests. This is mob violence, and, according to NewsNation’s Diana Falzone, many of these protesters are paid protesters. In my opinion, that makes them phony, and therefore their protests are phony; they denigrate their claimed cause; they have prostituted themselves for a few bucks, like modern day Judases.

These riots also betray the monumental hypocrisy of the Democrats. What once was their fight for women’s rights now seems to me to be a defense of rapists and sex traffickers; what was once Black Lives Matter is now Alien Criminals Matter.

I hope all law-abiding citizens will remember the ugliness of these phonies and their Democratic masters in the next election.

Bob Jacobs

Unity

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