This — THIS — what Berlatsky said, read it, read the whole thing
and
the ICE murders are •supposed• to provoke a violent backlash from the population that will be a pretext for full domestic militarization — not the tentative NG deployments we've seen and the violence of local police force, but honest-to-god martial law in the US.
Murder is both a goal in itself and a means to other goals. Both.
I am quite certain that Stephen Miller et al •wanted• and •expected• an ICE agent to get killed in Minneapolis, assumed based on their misunderstanding of our response to the murder of George Floyd that that's what would happen, were baffled when it didn't, and finally cut back the invasion not because they were shamed out of town but because when 2–3 days passed after they killed Alex Pretti and •still• nobody killed any ICE agents in retaliation, they decided it just wasn't going to happen and they needed to try a different approach. Doesn't mean the goal has changed, just the strategy.
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-mission-is-murder
