Law Enforcement
July 11, 2026 — John Hinderaker
My first experience with law enforcement being sold out to partisan interests arose out of a program, in which, as I recall, New York University Law School was involved, to place anti-fossil fuel lawyers in state attorney generals’ offices to sue oil companies. The effort was funded by left-wing money. So the far left was able to use public authorities to pursue its extremist agenda, courtesy of secret left-wing donors.
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June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
United States Attorney for Minnesota Dan Rosen announced the unsealing of the indictment of 15 members of Minnesota’s Antifa brigade — members of Direct Action and Black Cat Worker’s Collective — at the press conference I attended this morning. Twelve were arrested this morning. Law enforcement is looking out for two more. One was already in custody. Dan took pains from the outset to distinguish legal protest from the crminal
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June 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I am at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis awaiting a press conference with United States Attorney Dan Rosen and the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Michael McCarthy. We have been advised that they will announce charges against several defendants for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and related charges arising from the efforts of members from two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups in violent oppostion to immigration
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June 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
“Paranoia strikes deep,” goes the classic Buffalo Springfield song. How about the hatred of Jews? It doesn’t have quite the same ring, but a federal indictment emanating from a cast of characters associated with the University of Michigan provides a glaring example of how deeply it strikes. The indictment handed up by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan runs to 63 pages and variously alleges ten counts
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June 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Say his name. At the demand of the U.K. parliament, the prime minister dispatched his home secretary, the Right Honorable Shabana Mahmood, to make a statement and answer questions today. From the BBC, Home Secretary Mahmood addresses ‘horrifying’ murder of Henry Nowak in Commons I disagree with the BBC’s choice of verb. For now, official Britain is hiding behind an alleged independent watchdog investigation of the incident. The investigation may
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June 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Say his name. This young university student was murdered in England back in December. He spent his last few minutes on earth bleeding out from five stab wounds, including one to the face, while handcuffed and under arrest for “racism.” The police wouldn’t believe his repeated cries for help, “I can’t breathe,” “I’ve been stabbed,” because his killer had accused Nowak, age 18, of “racism.” Instead, police mocked Nowak in
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May 18, 2026 — Scott Johnson
For all its allged revelations, Jeffrey Meitrodt’s big Star Tribune story — “‘An open secret’: New records reveal officials failed to act on fraud warnings” — omitted the keys to understanding. Think the proverbial dog that didn’t bark in the Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze.” Here are omissions from Meitrodt’s story that I liken to the silence of of the dog in the story: • Meitrodt did not mention the
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May 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Star Tribune investigative reporter Jeffrey Meitrodt emailed me the URL for his long and long-awaited Star Tribune story on the Feeding Our Future case at 7:42 a.m. this morning. He must be proud of it. I have thanked him for the alert. Meitrodt’s 2,000-word story runs under the headline: “‘An open secret’: New records reveal officials failed to act on fraud warnings.” The subhead reads: “Newly obtained FBI interviews show
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April 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It’s like Christmas in April. Another two dozen fraud-linked locations in Minnesota were raided by the FBI this morning. Reportedly, Quality Learing Center was among them. Local reporter Lou Raguse (KARE-11 TV, NBC) reports that of the 22 addresses raided today, 10 were childcares (including Quality Learing), five were autism centers, and seven were other businesses. In the meantime, so much winning. JOHN adds: In December of last year, then-Assistant
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April 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Naive me. I genuinely thought that the day after the night before would see more attention paid to the basic fact that the U.S. Secret Service (part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, DHS) has gone without funding for the past 71 days on account of Senate Democrats. The only outlet that I’ve seen discuss the matter is Fox News. A shooting near President Donald Trump and several Cabinet members
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April 20, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune is the dominant media organ in Minnesota. It serves the interests of the left in the fashion of the New York Times in the national press, acting as the public relations arm of the Democratic Party and its aligned interest groups. The Star Tribune, however, is something of a joke. It adamantly supports illegal immigration and opposes the enforcement of immigration law, though it doesn’t say so
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April 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez was assaulted by members of the Ostroushko family at the Whipple Federal Building this past weekend. Ms. Hernandez was covering the protest against ICE. The Ostroushkos were part of the “resistance” mob protesting the presence of ICE in the Twin Cities. The Star Tribune has routinely glorified the mob in stories and columns over the past several months. One such story introduced us to the obese
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March 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I was unfamiliar with the story of rapper Afroman (Joseph Foreman) and the case that put his free speech rights in issue. Jonathan Turley flagged the case exactly three years ago in “Police Officers Sue ‘Afroman’ for the Use of Their Images from Raid on his Home.” Now the verdict is in. The jury has spoken. Professor Turley returns to tell the rest of the story in “‘Will You Help
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February 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In yesterday afternoon’s Wall Street Journal Best of the Web column, James Freeman asks the question: “Who watches the ‘ICE watchers’?” The answer to Freeman’s question is Christina Buttons/City Journal. Another answer to the question is not the Star Tribune. That much I can tell you. I’m afraid Freeman would include the Star Tribune publisher, editors, reporters, and columnists among “the incurious media” to which he refers at the top
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February 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal Free Expression newsletter — I received it at 5:56 a.m. — editor Matthew Hennessey takes a look at the Minnesota scene under the heading “Minnesota Madness” (“There’s a wildfire burning in Minnesota, and it’s 0% contained”). He writes: “We still don’t know the names of the guys who pumped Alex Pretti full of lead. That’s a bad sign” (emphasis in original). Hennessey to
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January 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
President Trump dispatched “border czar” Tom Homan to the Twin Cities in search of a resolution of what has become an untenable situation. This morning he held a press conference to provide a status report on his efforts (video below). The video is worth your time all the way through to the end. The president sent the right man for the mission. What a breath of fresh air on this
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January 27, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The Minneapolis Police Department has been mostly AWOL during the insurrection in that city. That is a chief reason why the violence has gotten out of hand. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Antifa rioters and their useful idiots attacked a hotel in Maple Grove, a northwestern suburb, with very different results: 🚨 HELL YES! Maple Grove Police went HARD after rioters in Minnesota when they attempted to
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