Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
With the shooting of that Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, Mark notes, “the Left has the martyr it has been agitating for, and whom it can rally around.” While the agitation proceeds, the people might recall Minneapolis cop Mohammed Noor, the Somali-born Muslim who shot dead Justine Ruszczyk Damond in 2017.
The Australian woman, soon to be married, called 911 to report a sexual assault in a nearby alley. Officer Noor claimed he saw a blond woman in a pink shirt raise her arm and bang on the car, so he fired through the window to protect the life of his partner Matthew Harrity. There was no body-cam footage and Noor refused to speak with Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions (BCA).
“I wish that he would because he has a story to tell that no one else can tell,” Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges told reporters. “We want to make sure that the investigation is independent and we want to make sure that the investigation has integrity.” On the other hand, “we cannot compound that tragedy by turning to racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. It is unjust and ridiculous to assert that an entire community be held responsible for the actions of one person. That will not be tolerated in Minneapolis.”
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton called the death a “horrible tragedy.” Asked if Noor should agree to an interview, Dayton told reporters that the officer “has constitutional rights as well as state law about decisions to speak or not speak, so I’m not going to comment on it.” The governor, a member of the Democrat-Farm Labor (DFL) party, did defend the BCA investigation.
Noor was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison. On Feb. 1, 2021, an appeal upheld the sentence but in September the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed Noor’s murder conviction. Noor was resentenced on second-degree manslaughter charges, and released in June, 2022 under court supervision, which ended in 2024. Information about Noor’s current activities is hard to find. Minnesotans might contrast the case with the recent shooting by ICE agents.
“To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” proclaimed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in a press conference. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.” The mayor, an attorney, failed to call for independent investigation in the style of former mayor Betsy Hodges, or urge the people to remain calm until all the facts were in. The people might also recall Frey’s response to another shooting in the city.
Last August 27, Robert Westman, a male who “identified” as a female named Robin Westman, opened fire on the Annunciation Catholic Church and school, killing eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, 10-year-old Harper Moyski, and wounding 17 others, 14 of them children. Mayor Frey failed to name or condemn Westman or speculate on the shooter’s motive.
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey told reporters. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.” It was as though, after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929, Chicago mayor William Thompson proclaimed that anybody using the mass murder to “villainize the Capone mob” had lost their humanity. If anybody thought Frey had lost his it would be hard to blame them.
After the ICE shooting, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate in 2024, proclaimed resistance to ICE a “patriotic duty,” and issued a warning to prepare the Minnesota national guard. “We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt,” proclaimed Walz, currently under fire for massive fraud in his state.
The fraud involves the Somali community that produced Mohammed Noor and Rep. Ilhan Omar, who described the 9/11 terrorist attack as “some people did something.” For Omar’s immigration issues see “The Minnesomalia One-Two.” For the Somali community’s links to the terrorism see “The Somali Shuffle,” from 2017, about al-Shabbab’s rapping recruiter, the American jihadist Omar Hammami. “Blow by blow, year by year, keepin’ those kaffirs livin’ in fear,” the American jihadi proclaimed, “Land by land, war by war, we gonna make our black flag soar.” And so on.
For welfare fraud see “The Great Somali Welfare Rip-Off,” from May of 2018. In one year alone, $100 million was shipped out of the USA and in several countries, jihadists used welfare payments and student loans to finance terrorist operations. ISIS supporter Anjem Choudary, contended that Muslims are entitled to welfare payments because they are a form of jizya, a tax imposed on non-Muslims as a reminder that they are subservient to Muslims.
The Trump administration is now conducting the long-overdue investigation into Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota. ICE is removing thousands of violent criminals who never should have been here in the first place. In 2026 moving forward, the struggle against terrorism, illegal immigration and welfare fraud is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
