Minneapolis Is More Than a Warning – the Struggle for Democracy Has Long Reached Europe

byRainer Hofmann

January 13, 2026

On Monday, federal agents advance in formation in Minneapolis. No conversation, no hesitation, only enforcement. In the front row stands a woman. She holds a sign, makes the peace sign. She says nothing, she attacks no one, she does not move. Seconds later, she is violently shoved to the ground. Her body slams into the asphalt. The sign falls. This is exactly how it is meant to look.

Shortly afterward, the same image elsewhere. An anti ICE protester refuses to step back. He stays where he is. Not aggressive, not loud, simply steadfast. The response is immediately physical. He is grabbed, thrown backward, forced to the ground. No dialogue, no proportionality, only force.

What matters is not who pushed whom. What matters is what is being enforced. Standing still is declared a transgression. Visible protest is declared a provocation, but it has to be. One has to go there in order to keep the struggle for democracy alive, to document it. That is also our task, our mindset, which does not look away. People have to help one another, especially the innocent. Those who do not move are removed. Not because they are dangerous, but because they remain visible. That is precisely where the message lies, and it knows no borders.

What is happening in Minneapolis no longer feels foreign. It carries no specific place within it, but a mood. One of those quiet shifts that you only notice once it has already happened. People stand there because they believe they are allowed to stand, that they must stand. The state moves on because it has learned not to stop. In that brief moment, between body and motion, something is decided that later comes to be seen as self evident. People then say there was no alternative. But exactly here, in this moment, there was one. Anyone who believes this concerns only America fails to see how similar our doubts already sound. Here too, people quietly ask themselves whether standing still is still permitted. This logic knows no borders.

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Ela Gatto
Ela Gatto
1 month ago

Deutschland 1933, Russland seit Stalins Zeiten, China, Nord-Korea.

Vermummte gehen ohne rechtliche Grundlage gegen Bürger vor.
Wenden brutale Gewalt an, obwohl die betroffenen Personen friedlich waren.
Verletzungen oder gar Todesfälle werden billigend in Kauf genommen.

MAGA feiert es.
Beruft sich auf Recht und Gesetz und das man keine Beamte in Ausübung ihrer Pflicht behindern darf.
Die müssen komplett blind sein, wenn ein hoch gehaltenes Handy, das stehen bleiben auf einem Gehweg als Behinderung angesehen wird.

Bis dann ihre Tür eingetreten wird. Sie aus dem Auto gezerrt werden.
Einfach, weil ICE komplett außer Kontrolle ist.

ich verstehe das Schweigen der anderen Länder nicht.
Wäre so etwas in Tunesien passiert, hätte man mahnend den Zeigefinger gehoben und eine Reisewarnung ausgesprochen.

Aber bei Trumps Faschisten relativiert man es, schaut weg.
Die Medien hier zeigen nicht, was wirklich passiert.
Es werden die Narrative „linksextreme Terroristen“ oder „gewalttätige Demonstranten“ übernommen.
Ohne Kritik.

Danke Rainer für diesen Bericht.
Er müsste in europäischen, kanadischen und australischen Medien rauf und runter laufen.
Genau wie der Bericht über die wertlosen warrants von ICE.

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