To Dr. King and my fellow Minnesotans,
A holiday is supposed to slow a nation down long enough to remember its standards. This year, MLK Day arrives with masked federal agents fanning out across the Twin Cities and beyond, with unmarked vehicles and street-level operations reshaping daily life, and with a growing chill that has many immigrants and other people of color, and many white residents too, thinking twice before leaving home, going to school or stepping into public spaces.
Dr. King, we are not living in your era, but we are facing a familiar question: Is “order” being used to protect the public, or to protect power from accountability?…