https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol-clash-at-roosevelt-minneapolis-schools-cancel-classes

A school week doesn’t get canceled because of a spicy take online.
It gets canceled when “dismissal time” turns into a tactical scene.

Local reporting on what happened outside Roosevelt High School (Minneapolis) describes armed Border Patrol officers showing up near the school during dismissal, moving onto/near school property, tackling people, handcuffing two staff members, and using pepper spray/pepper balls on bystanders. Video described in the report shows masked officers dragging a person on a sidewalk outside the school while bystanders shout.

After that, Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the rest of the week, citing safety concerns.

That’s not “politics as usual.” That’s a governance failure happening in front of kids.

The part worth debating (without culture-war labels)The part worth debating (without culture-war labels)

I’m not arguing “all enforcement is illegitimate.”
I’m arguing this:

When enforcement spills into a school’s arrival/dismissal perimeter, you create a predictable failure mode.

Crowds + kids + authority signals + unclear jurisdiction
= escalation → fear → shutdown.

You don’t need a conspiracy theory for that. You just need bad boundaries.

The accountability questionThe accountability question

If “public safety” is the justification, then the public deserves more than vibes and competing narratives.

At minimum, we should expect constraints + coordination + transparency:

• Prior coordination with the district (or a clearly defined exigent exception)
• A bright-line perimeter that keeps school grounds off-limits by default
• A rapid public after-action report: who / what / why
• Clear discipline standards when staff/parents are treated as “interference”

Because if the rule becomes “we can run tactical operations next to schools during dismissal and sort it out later,” then schools will keep doing the only thing they can do:

shut down.

The limiting principleThe limiting principle

So here’s the clean question:

Should there be a bright-line rule: no enforcement actions on/adjacent to school grounds during arrival/dismissal — unless there’s an imminent threat?

And if yes: what exactly counts as “imminent”?

Because this is how “normal” gets rewritten—one incident at a time, until the shutdown becomes routine.