From George Floyd to ICE: Minnesota’s Cycle of Manufactured Martyrs
George Floyd: The Prototype
The death of George Floyd was a political windfall for the enemies of the United States. Almost immediately, inconvenient facts, including toxicology reports showing lethal levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine, were brushed aside. Floyd’s death was transformed from a tragedy into a political instrument.
What followed was not justice. It was chaos: weeks of rioting, dozens of deaths, billions of dollars in insurance losses, statues torn down, neighborhoods burned, and elected officials openly siding with vandals.
This was not an accident. It was indulgence.
What followed in Minnesota was not an isolated episode, but the unveiling of a repeatable political formula: First, identify a death. Next, strip away inconvenient facts. Then elevate the event into a racial or ideological symbol. Finally, use that symbol to justify disorder, intimidation, and permanent suspicion of law enforcement.
Dolal Idd: The Failed Sequel
When the riots finally subsided, Minnesota seemed eager to manufacture the next symbol, a “George Floyd II.” That candidate emerged in December 2020 in the form of Dolal Idd.
Idd was killed during a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension sting, the state’s equivalent of an FBI operation, while attempting to sell stolen firearms. When officers moved in to arrest him, Idd tried to shoot his way out by firing through the driver-side window. Police returned fire, and Idd was killed.
Under ordinary circumstances, the story would have ended there. But because Idd was Somali, the facts were immediately subordinated to identity. Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), quickly emerged as the designated interpreter of events. He was repeatedly given platforms to second-guess law enforcement, eventually appearing on ABC News, despite having no investigative role, no access to evidence, and no obligation to be accurate. For a time, Idd was framed as yet another victim of racial injustice, until the accumulating details made that narrative impossible to sustain.
When the Dolal Idd narrative collapsed under the weight of reality, CAIR did not reassess. It pivoted, supplying the media with a fresh narrative, prepackaged and ready for immediate reuse. The facts were irrelevant; the momentum mattered.
January 6: The Narrative Reset
The January 6 Capitol riot conveniently provided the next opportunity. Hussein quickly declared it proof that “white supremacy” was the greatest threat facing the nation, a claim CAIR repeats reflexively.
Context, scale, and causation were irrelevant. The talking point remained the same, just recycled for the next moment.
Eventually, even that cycle ran its course. Minnesota limped forward, economically damaged, politically radicalized, but nominally stable.
That stability did not last.
Jacob Blake: Exporting the Script
Next came Jacob Blake, a repeat domestic offender who defied police commands in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while attempting to retrieve something from his vehicle. A police officer shot and paralyzed Blake, and Kenosha promptly erupted into arson, rioting, and lawlessness. Although Jaylani Hussein had no direct connection to the incident, and there is not even a CAIR chapter in Wisconsin, he nonetheless emerged once again, using his public platform to agitate and inflame.
Geography, jurisdiction, and relevance posed no obstacle to Hussein’s ambitions.
Myon Burrell: Revolution Without a Case
Then came Myon Burrell, a man who had spent nearly two decades in prison for the 2002 killing of Tyesha Edwards. In December 2020, Minnesota’s Board of Pardons voted to commute his life sentence after questions were raised about the reliability of the original investigation and the integrity of key evidence used to secure his conviction.
There is no evidence that CAIR had ever been involved in Burrell’s case. Yet Jaylani Hussein inserted himself anyway, proclaiming that “we are not stopping with Myon, we are starting with Myon,” and announcing that the country was in the midst of a revolution.
It was not advocacy. It was mobilization. Burrell was merely the latest prop. Hussein’s real objective was never justice in a single case, but mobilization against the United States itself.
With a record like this, one might expect TV stations to stop putting him on the broadcast. On the contrary, TV stations — and much of Minnesota’s political leadership — appear to reward his conduct.
Renee Good: The Next Attempted Martyr
This week, a woman, Renee Good, apparently inflamed by years of rhetoric portraying immigration enforcement as illegitimate, was killed during an encounter with an ICE officer who reasonably believed he was facing a potential vehicular assault. The distinction between lawful self-defense and post‑hoc narrative construction was immediately blurred. Almost immediately, Minnesota’s political class reached for the George Floyd script again.
Law enforcement was delegitimized. Obstruction was excused. Resistance was sanctified. Jaylani Hussein went further, declaring (@1:09) that people have a God-given right to fight ICE agents.
God has chosen us to carry the burden of this nation’s fight against President Trump’s authoritarianism.
The message was reinforced at the highest levels. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said (@17:00) publicly:
If you’re in Portland or you’re in LA or you’re in Chicago or you’re wherever they’re coming next, stand with us, stand with us against this.
This is no longer rhetorical excess. It is encouragement of resistance to lawful authority on a national level.
Ready to Do It Again
One might think Minnesota would now avoid invoking George Floyd. Instead, senior state leaders treat the unrest as an achievement, treating the months-long rioting they enabled, excused, and in some cases actively encouraged, as a precedent they are prepared to repeat.
Minnesota today is a place where public funds vanish, governance falters, law enforcement is treated as the enemy, political leaders openly flirt with lawlessness, and allies of terrorists are routinely given platforms. Violence is rationalized. Misinformation is reported as news. Police orders are treated as optional, illegal immigration is normalized, and mob action is moralized.
This is not coincidence. It is a process, one that has Minnesota exhibiting the defining characteristics of a failed state, not through foreign invasion, but through ideological corrosion from within, sustained by a constant demand for manufactured martyrs.
40 rounds says
Most minnesotans I know live conservatively, work hard, obey the law, etc. Evidently there is a solid core of stalinists centered in the twin cities area and they are total Kool aid drinkers. Unfortunately the decent people of Minnesota oftentimes vote for these communists thinking either let’s go along to get along or white guilt. There are enough Republicans and moderates to win every national election but too many are self loathing.
BECCA R says
Good essay. I agree 100%. Actually, I wote in the comment section on The Free Press something similar yesterday.
“Here we go again. Who can forget the summer of 2020 that canonized career criminal George Flloyd (regardless of how he died, he was a career criminal), and had a Georgia Blood gang member shot in self defense by a cop who was wronglfully imprisoned for doing so, among other similar cases including another one in Minnesota or Wisconsin where a sperm donor violated his parental visitation rights and pulled a knife on a police officer who asked him to exit his vehicle, which he did not. Instead he went for a knife that was on the floor board of the vehicle. The sperm donor was shot in self defense by the cop and was crippled. The dead Georgia Blood gang member was eulogized at the Ebenezer Baptist church (of Dr. King fame) by none other than the Reverend Doctor Raphael Warnock (D Georgia). The Atlanta policeman was ramrodded out of his job by a crooked Fulton County DA, who subsequently was voted out and replaced by another Fulton County DA of dubious character. The United States is a country on the brink of civil war. Partisan politics rules and folks that should know better words only use one particular 4 letter word, which does not add to their gravitas. Regardless of what your politics are, watch the videos of the January 7, 2026 incident, all three of the now available videos. Then look up the laws relevant to every aspect of this case. Ultimately that is what the determining factors shouuld be. Here is my advice to hot headed self righteous folks regardless of your political persuasion: Do not tangle with law enforcement. If they ask you to step out of your vehicle, listen and obey and don’t talk back if you value your life. You won’t die a martyr. You will be forgotten in a few months. It did not take Americans too long to forget 9/11 which was an incidence of far greater consequence. New Yorkers just elected a jihad supporting Social Democrat (code word for Communist) mayor of NYC the epicenter of 9/11. I saw the videos of the January 7, 2026 incident and I think the officer acted in self defense. He had a split second to make a judgement in a situation where the temperature index was boiling over. In 2020 Gareth Rolfe was imprisoned, lost his job because of a corrupt DA for acting in a similar manner. The Blood gang member died and was buried in a solid gold casket, and as a verified sperm donor his issue were given full rides to an historically black college all courtesy of a celebrity prize fighter, Flloyd Merriweather. What happened on Jan 7, 2026 would never have happened if this woman, who was not legally sanctioned to obstruct law enforcement as a” legal observer,” did not willfully obstruct justice and let the officers do their job. And in this case peacefully exit the vehicle. If you do not like Trump and his policies, vote him out. Your vote is your voice. If you do not like Walz and his virtue signaling cronies, vote them out. If you want America to survive, stay civil and make your voice heard at the ballot box. And when you do go to vote, recognize that we are overrun with corrupt illegal aliens who are using the United States and its resources not to contribute to the Great Society but to enrich themselves at the expense of big governement, promote their ideologies and destroy our country and Western civilizaion as a whole.”
Walter Sieruk says
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective.
Which is that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking . Floyd even knowingly pass counterfeit money
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
In the light of Bible it’s wrong to resist of police officers or their orders. Romans 13:2.
Furthermore as this CP unjust prison sentence upon Mr. Chauvin is a reminder for Christians to pray for him since he was wrongly sentenced and that Bible also instructs in Hebrews 13 : 3. “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – Those who are mistreated…”
Walter Sieruk says
Police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
Floyd died by his drug abuse and the stress he brought upon himself by being such a fool that he resisted arrest. In other words, Floyd is responsible for his own death.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding January 6th 2001 and then later when Joe Biden was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a genuine, real US President , he had again proven that he was, and still is, a blatant and outright liar of the most despicable sort. For Biden called that patriot rally on January 6, 2021 at Washington DC. “A deadly insurrection.”
As for “deadly”, the only people who died that day were American patriots, as Ashi Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland. Neither is an insurrection, the patriots didn’t try to overthrow the US government and they no firearms on them.
Therefore, what Biden slanderously said statement that about those patriots, he lied again For Joe Biden has been lying for decades, So much so that we may be sure the he is a pathological liar and likewise being chronic liar is now part of his despicable character.
It might even be that with Biden’s fragile mental haze and he’s so self -deluded that he might really believe some of his own lies.
America surely didn’t need anyone sitting in the Oval Office of the White House who has no concept of reality or grip on reality. We ,as Americans should be very glad and relived he’s now literally and officially a “has been.”
Walter Sieruk says
That January 6th Committee was a complete political hoax. To make matters even worse the corrupted Red -Green alliance infiltrated and influenced FBI took a sinister part in that schemed despicable hoax.
Furthermore, on Fox News had interviewed a woman who is an American patriot women and was outside at the rally on January 6,2021 for a free and honest national election said that she saw a number of Capital police smiling and even waving the other patriots in the Federal Capital building.
She said that she had a gut feeling and it was a set up. That woman turned out to be right.
It was, indeed, a set up a despicable schemed leftist set up. In other words, it was a dirty double cross.
It was a planned entrapment of a very insidious loathsome lawless low sort.
It was an unconscionable arranged and sinisterly designed disingenuous unfair affront to all genuine justice law and order.
The ancient Roman statesman lawyer scholar and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero had very wisely wrote that “Law is built on justice; where there’s no justice there’s no law.”
We should glad and even relieved that with President Trump back in Office such dark days of insidious wickedness might for over,
Isabella Hale says
Wow, I have never heard of this Dolol Idd but apparently his brother killed his little brother.. and he was killed by Ice.. I just read about it. during the George Floyd riots.
President Trump may have to deal w/ Minnesota as if it were an internal leper colony.. or basically the whole state may have be shut down and treated like it is a DOMESTIC THREAT to the safety of the United States. Glad I am not President. DOJ is cutting off funds. and perhaps safety perimeters should be put up around the entire city of Minneapolis at all major points egress and ingress and everyone.. even Americans.. should be checked.. I know that sounds tough.. but if I lived there I WOULD MOVE.. far away.. for sure.
LS says
Actually, there were recently stories of Patriots moving to Minnesota in order to try to skew it red.
Taffy says
Go to Amazon and search for George Floyd Commemorative Coin for a chuckle.
somehistory says
One line…”not through foreign invasion,”…isn’t exactly right. The thousands of muzzies from somalia still see themselves as somalian and here in America to takeover and change the nation to be a muzziescum run place.
One reporter went to MN and to a local Walmart store. That store was run by somali muzzies.
ihan elmi, alias omar, has been called ‘a daughter of somalia’ here to see to the “interests of somalis.”
geroge soros and others are funding people to go out and make trouble for the LE sent thereto clan house. The lesbian and her partner moved from CO….probably paid to move to MN…in order to make trouble for ICE.
Planned chaos. Imo, the groups behind it all….cair being one of those….wanted someone to be injured, preferably killed, by ICE so they could have a *reason* to make even more trouble.
Larry Estavan says
What can anyone say but, you’re right.
We are in a war.
gravenimage says
+1
nicholas william tesdorf says
Pack enough Muslims into any State, and it will become a failed state.
Sister Alberti says
I found myself actually liking the Taliban when they painted over a 10 story illustration of George Floyd on the side of a skyscraper in Kabul
Bexarkat says
Derek Chauvin was a troubled officer whose actions may have led to the death of George Floyd. However, his trial, at the behest of Keith Ellison and the radical LA Rep. Maxine Waters was a political lynching. While Chauvin may have contributed to Floyd’s death, he is not guilty of the criminal charges Ellison contrived. Watch “The Fall of Minneapolis” found on YouTube for an alternative view of events of 2020. If Ellison and his ilk have their way, the unidentified ICE agent will be indicted and convicted – even in absentia.
gravenimage says
The Failed State of Minnesota
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I remember when Minnesota was one of the lowest-crime states in the union. Not today.
And why would I want to sit on a bench next to a statue of a thug who broke into a pregnant woman’s home and threatened to shot her in the belly? *Ugh*.