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Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Politics
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MSNBC contributor claims 'dark' Trump supporters enjoy watching ICE act like 'slave catchers'
MSNBC contributor and Princeton University professor Dr. Eddie Glaude claimed on Monday that supporters of President Donald Trump enjoy watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) act like "slave catchers" as they carry out immigration raids in Los Angeles. Trump has sent U.S. Marines to L.A. in an effort to quash anti-ICE protests that have ravaged parts of the city. Images from L.A. show masked protesters blocking roads, destroying vehicles and engaging with police. Glaude said on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" that the immigration raids happening in the city reminded him of a time when "political factions" divided the nation between "slaveholders and slave catchers," and that Trump's assertion that "L.A. is on fire" is not true. Watch: Dem, Media Outlets Insist La Anti-ice Riots Are 'Peaceful' Despite Violence, Injured Cops "Folk have their red meat, now that they're going to see the spectacle of quote, unquote 'L.A. on fire,' which is not right. What will happen? Will that activate the ugliness that got him in office in the first place? Will folks now declare why they love him?" Glaude questioned. "Because we know that he's always good on the immigration question." The Princeton professor continued, laying out his analogy for the current political climate surrounding immigration. Read On The Fox News App "This reminds me historically of – it's not a clear analogy – but when the nation, when these political factions divided the nation between slaveholders and slave catchers, when they made everybody with the Fugitive Slave Law, all of us had to, if someone escaped all of us had to return that particular piece of property to these folks, with ICE running around L.A., forcing people to make choices," Glaude claimed. "Will they protect their friends, their neighbors, their family members? Will they take, will they confront these folks?," he asked. Congress Takes Action Over Reports It Took 2 Hours For Lapd To Assist Assaulted Ice Agents Glaude argued that L.A. residents are being "terrorized" by the ICE raids and questioned what members of the community are expected to do as illegal immigrants are being rounded up and deported. "You see people crying, you see babies crying, and these people come in here and do this s---! What are they supposed to do?" he said. "We know that the country is about to pop. So I'm sitting here trying to figure out – excuse the cuss word – I'm sitting here trying to figure out, right, what will the country stomach; are they going to allow this man to do this?" Glaude asked. "And the answer that I keep coming to is yes." He then shared with viewers what he thinks of Americans who support the president's initiative to deport illegal immigrants living in the country. "Here's the thing: Donald Trump, as a political charlatan of sorts, gives Americans license to be who they really are. They don't have to pretend and when you see what they really are, who they really are, these people who support him. Right? It's dark," Glaude concluded. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Fox News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this article source: MSNBC contributor claims 'dark' Trump supporters enjoy watching ICE act like 'slave catchers'
Boston Globe
15-02-2025
- Boston Globe
Today in History: February 15, USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
In 1851, an angry crowd stormed the federal courthouse in Boston and rescued Shadrach Minkins, the first escaped enslaved person seized in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Under the law, northern authorities were required to help owners recapture enslaved people. Minkins, who had escaped slavery in Norfolk, Va., and fled to Boston, was tracked down by his owner and arrested by US marshals. After he was pulled from the courtroom, Minkins was hidden in a home on Beacon Hill, then ushered onto the Underground Railroad to Canada. Advertisement In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a law allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the US Supreme Court. In 1898, the battleship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain. Advertisement In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed by electric chair the following month. In 1950, Walt Disney's animated film 'Cinderella' premiered in Boston. In 1961, 73 people, including all 18 members of the US figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium. In 1978, boxer Leon Spinks scored a massive upset as he defeated Muhammad Ali by split decision to become the world heavyweight champion. In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention. In 2005, defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges. In 2013, with a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across Russia's western Siberian sky and exploded, injuring nearly 1,500 people as it blasted out windows. In 2022, the families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against Remington Arms, the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
