Minneapolis, MN
Springsteen ICE protest ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ highest-selling song in US last week
Bruce Springsteen’s protest song ripping what he calls the “state terror” tactics by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is topping the music sales charts in the United States.
“Streets of Minneapolis” was last week’s highest-selling song in the United States, Billboard reported Monday.
The tune took the top spot on Billboard’s digital song sales chart in the last week of January, selling 16,000 downloads, according to data from Luminate.
Billboard noted that Springsteen’s song hit No. 1 despite only being available for two days of the tracking period.
The “Born in the USA” singer — a frequent critic of President Trump who has called his administration “corrupt” and “treasonous” — said in a social media post last week that he penned the song “in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis.”
The release followed the two separate shooting deaths last month in Minneapolis involving federal immigration authorities. In January, a federal immigration enforcement officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good, during the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Less than three weeks later, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was killed by a Customs and Border Patrol agent.
In his message about his new music, Springsteen said it was “dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.”
In his song, the 76-year-old performer slammed Trump and the Department of Homeland Security, singing, “King Trump’s private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats, came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, or so their story goes.”
“Trump’s federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest, then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead,” Springsteen sang in “Streets of Minneapolis.”
“Their claim was self-defense sir, just don’t believe your eyes. It’s our blood and bones, and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies,” Springsteen said in the song, in a reference to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
“We eagerly await Mr. Springsteen’s songs dedicated to the thousands of American citizens killed by criminal illegal aliens,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin previously told The Hill in response to Springsteen’s music, saying that the “brave men and women of ICE are saving lives by arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers, gang members, and terrorists.”
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Minneapolis, MN
Motorcyclist seriously injured in north Minneapolis hit-and-run
Minneapolis police are investigating a hit-and-run that left a man seriously injured Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened near Oliver Avenue North and Lowry Avenue North just before 2 p.m., according to the Minneapolis Police Department.
Investigators say an SUV struck another vehicle, which then collided with a motorcyclist. The driver of the SUV then fled the scene.
The motorcyclist was taken to the hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries. Police say the driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
No arrests have been made as of Tuesday night.
Minneapolis, MN
Medicaid fraudster still owes $1.7M in restitution
A recent FOX 9 investigation found that Medicaid fraudsters owe millions but pay back little with several other defendants discharged from probation after making either minimal or no payments towards their court-imposed debts.
Minneapolis, MN
Person found fatally shot inside car in Mill Ruins Park in Minneapolis, police say
A homicide investigation is underway after a person was found shot to death inside a car parked along the Mississippi River, the Minneapolis Park Police Department said.
Around 6:40 a.m. Sunday, officers from Minneapolis Park police and the city’s police department responded to a report of a body in a car at Mill Ruins Park. They found an adult with a fatal gunshot wound at the scene, as well as a firearm.
The Minneapolis Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating.
Police said the Hennepin County medical examiner will determine the manner and cause of death, as well as the person’s identity.
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