Prof. Emmanuel Mauleón Authors Blog Post About Minneapolis Protests

Professor Emmanuel Mauleón gave his reflections of the protest movement in Minneapolis in a post for the “Law and Political Economy Project” blog. He wrote, “In a tribute to Renee Macklin Good, her wife, Rebecca Good, wrote of her final encounter with ICE: ‘On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.’ Good’s observation has become a well-known shorthand for the situation unfolding in Minnesota. To anyone in South Minneapolis the asymmetry between the protestors and immigration authorities is hard to miss. They have guns. And batons. And pepperballs. And tasers. And chemical weapons. And FlexCuffs. And more than $165,000,000,000. Yet despite all their violent potential, these tools have shown that they can halt individuals, never movements.”