From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing
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As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don’t make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.”

…There Is The Option To NOT Vote, When You Were A Former Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party/Rep. ‘Crazy Capitalist’ PARTY Voter, But Cannot Find A Political Left Party’s Candidate! After you experience the link I provided of ‘The Democracy Now’ segment, From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing, you will understand why I said the above!

For the linked ‘Democracy Now’s segments:

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing- This is must understand about our country, been this way from the creation of law enforcement. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

“He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti- Go to 54-Mins. & notice how the city’s police (the national guard was not there!) just waited for ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’ to do their illegal, sick & evil actions on the activists & immigrants & move-on, before they moved-in. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/alex_pretti_shooting_minneapolis

“ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids- Go to 25-Mins. & notice how the city policy are corralling the activists at the airport, NOT taking on ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/minnesota_strike_ice_out

Yes, ‘Democracy Now’ is doing a awesome job, that lamestream media will never do, of mentioning & showing in short parts of segments how The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party Politically Controlled Minnesota’s & Minneapolis’s Politicians are NOT doing their jobs in PHYSICALLY (words mean nothing without actions, first & legal actions take way too long) protecting Immigrants & activist from ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’ & with today’s awesome segment (I am buying that book), how we are a country where both parties use police-ICE to keep people happy with the sick & evil system of Capitalism, but…
…my criticism of ‘D N’s coverage of this is they not had expert on for a full 30-min. segment talking how The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party Politically Controlled Minnesota’s & Minneapolis’s Politicians must do their jobs in PHYSICALLY (words mean nothing without actions, first & legal actions take way too long) protecting Immigrants & activist from ‘The Crazy Don’s ‘Mob Enforcers’!

So I am serious when I say if The Minnesota National Guard & Minneapolis Police (& any other Minnesota’s cities’ police want to join in; why the BLANK not, your city could be next?) PHYSICALLY (even if shots are fired by them) protecting the immigrants & people causes either A EMERGENCY ‘USA Supreme Court’ Case or worse a new Civil War, then was worth it!! We as the sane & majority people of The USA cannot allow this to go on like it is & when it is finally stopped unanswered!!! As I posted here before, this is even a situation where these states should working with a EU military force to protect these immigrants & people, it a MARK ON NOT JUST THE DEM. ‘90+% CAPITALIST’ PARTY, BUT THOSE EU COUNTRIES!!! I know UN cannot do anything, under the way The UN laws protect the evil actions of the 5-most powerful countries, since WW II