The federal siege of Minneapolis that has left two citizens dead is beginning to hit home here in Sacramento, as outraged residents filled City Council chambers Tuesday, a throng that spilled into the lobby, for a meeting that was nothing short of a civic venting session.
Sacramento and Minneapolis are remarkably the same, and it is hardly far-fetched to wonder how it would feel if the state of our cities was reversed. Imagine if a federal Homeland Security force about nearly 10 times the size of the Sacramento police patrol descends upon the city. That’s what Minneapolis is facing.
“It’s unfathomable to understand,” said Mayor Kevin McCarty, who missed Tuesday’s meeting to fly back to a national mayor’s conference in Washington, D.C. “But honestly, we’ve had to think about it.”…