PNN – The New York Times wrote in a report: America under Trump looks more like nervous officers in terrifying black masks who pulled out their weapons and fired their bullets at an unarmed man, an image that drives Washington’s friends to turn against rivals.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the New York Times newspaper wrote in its report, referring to the recent protests in the United States, which are still ongoing in response to the fatal shooting of two protesters in Minnesota: These days, masked militias roam the streets of American cities, demanding that anyone who doesn’t feel they are American enough prove they belong here. Brown skin or a hint of an unfamiliar accent is often enough reason for these officers to ask a person to show their documents and answer a version of the question, what kind of American are you?
In Minnesota, scenes are unfolding that are reminiscent of the chaos and violence of civil wars that occur in other countries. Armed officers have stormed the streets, attacked people, fired tear gas, and arbitrarily detained them. They have shot civilians at close range, killing two of them.
But if this is a war, it is one-sided: The troops that Trump has unleashed are facing not their military opponents, but ordinary people armed with cell phones and whistles. It’s true that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated his National Guard, but so far, they haven’t been deployed to do much more than deliver coffee, hot cocoa, and doughnuts to Minnesotans who have taken to the streets.
The New York Times continued: Yet the conflict in Minneapolis has exposed a divide over the meaning of citizenship and fundamental rights, perhaps as deep as the one that divided the country in 1861. The fight, now as then, is over a simple question: What kind of Americans are we?
Resisters lined up against the powerful in the United States, epitomized by the two Americans who were shot and killed in Minneapolis this month: Renée Godin, a poet and mother who had just dropped her son off at school, was shot in the head by a U.S. Customs and Immigration officer who, according to unfounded allegations, was planning to run the officers over with his car, and Alex Peretti, who bravely placed himself between the federal agents and the woman they had knocked to the ground, paid the price for this bravery with his life.