Bad Bunny, Green Day, and ICE: ‘The most political Super Bowl ever’



What millions of Americans are about to witness as they sit down for wings, football, and cold beers “might be the most political Super Bowl ever,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere warns on “Stu Does America.”

An article from the Associated Press explained that “the NFL is facing pressure ahead of Sunday’s game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots to take a more explicit stance against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement.”

“More than 184,000 people have signed a petition calling on the league to denounce the potential presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Super Bowl, which is being held at Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. The liberal group MoveOn plans to deliver the petition to the NFL’s New York City headquarters on Tuesday,” it continued.


“Anway, no plans for ICE immigration enforcement at the Super Bowl, sources say. So, once again, this is a totally manufactured controversy,” Stu comments.

And the Super Bowl’s half-time performer, Bad Bunny, has been very vocally anti-ICE — which Roger Goodell was questioned about in a recent press conference.

“Bad Bunny made a pretty clear anti-ICE statement at the Grammys last night. What are you expecting in terms of political statement, whether that’s from Bad Bunny or Green Day or any of the other performers?” a reporter asked Goodell.

“Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world. And that’s one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is, he understood the platform he was on and that this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able to use this moment to do that,” Goodell responded.

“I think Bad Bunny understands that, and I think he’ll have a great performance,” he added.

“It’s such a funny thing to watch theoretically serious people have a serious conversation about someone named Bad Bunny. It’s just such a strange world we live in,” Stu laughs, before pointing out that at the Grammys, Bad Bunny used the win to protest ICE.

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out,” Bad Bunny said as he accepted the award for best musica urbana album.

The beloved alternative band Green Day is also performing at the Super Bowl — and Stu believes they’ll be political as well.

“Their opinions might be dumb, but they really think they’re important,” Stu says. “So, I will be shocked if at the very least we don’t have anti-ICE pins or something like that, but probably more than that from Green Day.”

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Girl says she fought 'old,' 'racist' man with MAGA hat at ICE protest — and excuses fellow teen brawlers



A 16-year-old girl said in a video interview that that she fought the adult male with a MAGA hat at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Texas earlier this week, calling him "old" and "racist" while excusing fellow teen brawlers.

“I didn't think it was going to escalate this far," Alissa, a student at Moe & Gene Johnson High School in Buda, told KEYE-TV. "I didn't think that he was going to be capable to even think to hit a minor. I didn't think he was actually going to get out of his vehicle. So in the moment I reacted."

'I'm not gonna let, like, [an] old man, a racist man, like, say something to a minor.'

Alissa told the station she saw another female juvenile kick the man's truck amid a verbal argument between them Monday afternoon.

“She kicks the truck. She just kicks the truck one time, and that's it," Alissa added to KEYE. "That's the moment that he got mad. He reached for his door. He decides to get off the vehicle and starts to come straight to the girl and starts to attack her.”

She also told the station that "he should have known better. He's an adult. He could have just easily let the girl hit the car, park to the side, call the police, and call it a day. He decided to get out of the car and do what he did."

Alissa added to KEYE that cellphone video another student recorded shows the moment she intervened.

“He kind of got on top of her and started to hit the girl. In that moment, I reacted. I went and I pulled the guy off, and that's when I hit him,” she recalled to the station. “Everybody comes and attacks him, and it escalates from there."

Alissa in her interview with KEYE excused the actions of her fellow teens.

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"It's teenagers," she argued to the station. "How was he not going to expect teenagers to act like teenagers? Like, if they have the moment to attack a guy, and they're doing a protest ... like, obviously those kids are gonna take the time out of their day to come defend the girls."

Alissa added to KEYE, "Like, it's a girl. Like, he should have known better, like, not to put his hands on girls, first of all, and he should have known that it's a minor; he should have known that these are kids doing a protest."

She also told the station, "I'm not gonna let, like, [an] old man, a racist man, like, say something to a minor." The reporter interviewing Alissa didn't ask her to clarify why she called the man a racist.

Alissa's father told KEYE he was furious when Alissa told him the man grabbed her by her hair.

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“I was really, really mad,” Jose Loredo told the station. “We are grown-ups, you know; we're not little kids. And him hitting girls, females, you're not supposed to do that. He could have just left. No reason to pull over and get off his car.”

Buda Police said 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle was charged Tuesday with two counts of assault causing bodily injury, which are Class A misdemeanors.

Hays County Jail records indicate Watts was booked into jail Tuesday and released Wednesday on two surety bonds of $2,500 each. Police told KEYE in a separate story that Watts has no previous record of violent offenses.

While police determined that Watts was the primary aggressor, Officer Matt Schima with the Buda Police Department told KEYE in a video interview that police also are looking into possible charges against the juveniles involved in the brawl and that "we want to be thorough in this investigation to make sure that everybody is held accountable that needs to be held accountable."

KEYE claimed that it had attempted to reach out to Watts for comment but those attempts were unsuccessful.

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Columbia Professors Arrested For Blocking Traffic to Protest ICE

Two Columbia University professors were arrested for blocking traffic for nearly an hour during an anti-ICE protest outside the Ivy League school's main gates on Thursday. One was a guard for the illegal anti-Israel encampment in April 2024.

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A Viral Video Shows How The Left Coerces Fake Agreement

You’ve probably seen the video making the rounds today of the “Peak AWFL” meltdown in a Minneapolis yoga studio. You can see a bunch of obvious themes in this mega-cringe showdown, starting with the feminization thesis advanced by Helen Andrews and the problem of Cluster B politics that Christopher Rufo has described. But the moment […]

Antifa, women's clothing, and Church of Satan: Thug who allegedly threatened ICE agents is a proud degenerate



Kyle Wagner, the 37-year-old Antifa thug arrested in Minneapolis on Thursday for allegedly making threats against federal agents, appears to be far more of a degenerate than his criminal complaint suggests.

Wagner has long cosplayed as a leftist guerrilla, distributing gas masks to fellow travelers, accumulating and selling leftist agitprop, and going so far as to permanently ink some propaganda symbols on his body.

'I am all the things they hate about Antifa.'

In recent videos on Instagram where he yammers about the "secret war" that's supposedly underway and seemingly threatens federal agents, Wagner repeatedly flashes his tattoo of the German Iron Front's three arrow symbol.

The three arrows symbol, popular among Antifa and other leftist terrorist groups, has historically signaled socialists' opposition to monarchism, fascism, and national communism; however, the triad of targets appears to vary depending on the leftist group and murderous cause of the day.

Wagner evidently likes to dress up in more than pinko tattoos and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparel.

The self-identified Antifa member — who faces numerous charges, including impeding/retaliating against a federal officer, threatening injury to family, interstate domestic violence, and conspiracy to injure an officer — admitted in a video that he also likes to dress up in women's clothing "all year, all the time."

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The apparent autogynephile suggested that his transvestism frequently makes women uncomfortable. He used colorful language to condemn those women who "mumble to themselves and have all kinds of things to say behind [his] back."

In a recent interview with the Chicago-based DJUTV, which appears to have been taken down on YouTube, Wagner apparently stated, "I own my weird queer stuff. I am all the things they hate about Antifa."

Antifa, which Democrats have repeatedly claimed does not exist, is an anarcho-communist militant group that has long threatened lives and property throughout the Western world.

President Donald Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in the wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination last year by a radical assassin who allegedly etched Antifa slogans into his bullet casings.

"I'm a union guy that dresses up in women's clothing, and I'm queer, but I'm also a father," continued Wagner.

"I love the Church of Satan's, you know, commandments and stuff. ... I'm a crazy leftist."

In addition to signaling support for the "commandments" of the Church of Satan — an organization that states that its exemplar, Satan, "represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!" — the transvestite expressed support for Black Lives Matter in its supposed fight against "white supremacists."

According to the federal criminal complaint, Wagner allegedly threatened the men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on multiple occasions, telling his followers to: "cripple them"; "put our hands on them"; "hunt ice"; "disable their vehicles"; "surround them and disarm them"; "fight ice"; "kill or be killed"; "arrest ice"; and "take their f*****g masks off and take their f*****g guns."

In addition to allegedly flooding his social media pages with such inciting rhetoric, the satanic cross-dresser allegedly threatened and doxxed a supporter of ICE, publishing his or her phone number, birthday, and address online.

"This man allegedly doxxed and called for the murder of law enforcement officers, encouraged bloodshed in the streets, and proudly claimed affiliation with the terrorist organization Antifa before going on the run," said Attorney General Pam Bondi. "Today’s arrest illustrates that you cannot run, you cannot hide, and you cannot evade our federal agents: If you come for law enforcement, the Trump administration will come for you."

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'These are the criminals Governor Spanberger is protecting': DHS brings the receipts on Democrat's dangerous ICE shutdown



The Department of Homeland Security slammed Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) for issuing an executive order ending state and local law enforcement cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

On Wednesday, Spanberger signed a directive requiring local authorities to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with ICE, claiming that these arrangements "placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement."

'Governor Abigail Spanberger continues to release pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia's streets.'

The agreements allow ICE to delegate to local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency's supervision.

Over 30 law enforcement agencies in Virginia have agreements with ICE, according to the agency's website.

"Governor Spanberger said her administration has been closely reviewing agreements state law enforcement agencies were required to sign in 2025. These agreements forced Virginia law enforcement agencies to hand over their men and women to be supervised by ICE," Spanberger's office wrote.

DHS fired back at Spanberger in a statement to Blaze News, claiming that the governor's policy would "make Virginia less safe."

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Abigail Spanberger. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images

"When politicians bar local law enforcement from working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities. Seven of the top 10 safest cities in the United States cooperate with ICE. Instead of working with us, Governor Spanberger is choosing to RELEASE violent criminals from her jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims," a DHS spokesperson stated.

"While Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger continues to release pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia's streets, our brave law enforcement will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals," the DHS continued.

The department listed several illegal aliens that ICE had recently arrested in Virginia, stating, "These are the criminals Governor Spanberger is protecting in Virginia."

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Delvan Lopez Garcia (top left), Joel Reyes-Aguilar (top middle), Mesfin Hussin (top right), Somcith Sysountone (botton left), Marvin Dejesus Salinas Rodas (bottom middle), Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez (bottom right). Image source: Department of Homeland Security.

The individuals included Delvan Lopez Garcia, a Guatemalan national with prior convictions for sex assault and enticement of a minor for prostitution; Joel Reyes-Aguilar, a Honduran national previously convicted of sex assault-sodomy of a girl with strongarm and molestation of a minor; Mesfin Hussin, an Ethiopian national with a homicide conviction; Somcith Sysountone, a Thai national with convictions for sex assault-carnal abuse and other offenses; Marvin Dejesus Salinas Rodas, a Salvadoran national with convictions for assault and homicide-negligent manslaughter with a vehicle; and Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, a Honduran national and MS-13 gang member who confessed to five murders.

Spanberger's office did not respond to a request for comment.

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Did AIPAC accidentally elect the next Squad member?



The most powerful pro-Israel lobby may have accidentally boosted a progressive rising star who has accused the Jewish state of committing genocide in Gaza.

The New Jersey Democrat primary is in dead heat between former Rep. Tom Malinowski and Analilia Mejia, who has secured the backing of prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the race to replace Mikie Sherrill, who was just elected to serve as New Jersey's governor, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is once again putting its thumb on the scale.

'AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats.'

Malinowski criticized aid to Israel, prompting a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against the Democrat funded by AIPAC.

The campaign hammered Malinowski for his track record on immigration, attempting to frame the Democrat as a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement candidate who approved President Donald Trump's deportation funding in 2019.

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AIPAC likely projected the ad targeting Malinowski would boost pro-Israel Democratic Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way in the overcrowded primary, but polls show they may have massively underestimated Mejia.

AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats, including Squad members like former Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.

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This time around, the race remains too close to call, with the latest poll results putting Mejia at a razor-thin advantage of less than 1%.

New Jersey's 11th congressional districts used to be staunchly Republican but flipped to a deep-blue district in 2018, when Sherill defeated GOP candidate Jay Webber. Given the district's newly Democratic affiliation, a primary victory for Mejia would likely guarantee her a seat in the House of Representatives.

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Billie's 'stolen land' shtick falls on deaf ears



Talk about retro!

Pop star Billie Eilish accepted her "Best Song" Grammy Sunday night with a speech guaranteed to slay ... six years ago.

Add Jamie Lee Curtis to the list of liberals who say every Trump move is meant to distract us from the Epstein files.

In 2026? Even Iron Eyes Cody would have cringed at her “we’re living on stolen land” shtick.

Bummer Billie wasn't all gloom and doom, admitting that "I feel really hopeful in this room" and that "our voices really do matter."

We're hopeful, too, young lady!

In a heartening display of unity, middle-of-the-road publications like Newsweek, Parade magazine, and even liberal geek forum ScreenRant joined the usual conservative outlets in skewering Eilish's hypocrisy.

It seems the "Wildflower" singer's $3 million Glendale mansion sits on the Tongva tribe's ancestral land. They made their voices heard too, by the way, offering Eilish a satirical "eviction" notice.

Virtue-signaling sure ain't what it used to be!

View's clues

“The View” may actually be watchable, at least for a week.

The show has avoided adding a real conservative to its panel following Meghan McCain’s 2021 departure. McCain loathed President Donald Trump, but she held her fellow panelists’ feet to the fire. She even did her research, something that can rarely be said about her colleagues.

It’s been a one-sided jamboree ever since, with faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin fumbling as the show’s token Republican.

Enter Savannah Chrisley, an openly pro-MAGA pundit. She’ll be filling in for Griffin during the co-host’s maternity leave for one week, starting February 16.

This might be a trial balloon to see if actual debate can exist on the conspiracy-theory-addled show. Or the producers want to see if Joy and Co. can cross-talk Chrisley so aggressively that no Trump-friendly female will follow in her high heels …

RELATED: Billie Eilish's virtue signal backfires as native tribe says her $3M mansion is 'in our ancestral land'

Photos by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images (L), FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images (R)

Spitting image

That “Exorcist” reboot proved to be one of 2023’s biggest duds. Whose bright idea was it to take pea soup off the menu anyway?

At least Universal — which paid $400 million for the rights to the iconic IP back in 2021 — appears to have learned from its mistakes. The studio has scrapped plans for a trilogy in favor of a fresh start. A new "Exorcist" film, helmed by horror vet Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Doctor Sleep”), is slated to hit theaters in 2027.

Did we mention it has four Oscar nominees in the cast? Scarlett Johansson. Laurence Fishburne. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Diane Lane. Let's hope that's enough star power to compel audiences to show up — and keep the franchise out of development hell.

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They must all have the same script in hand. It’s the only explanation.

Add Jamie Lee Curtis to the list of liberals who say every Trump move is meant to distract us from the Epstein files. Because, as we all know, President Joe Biden knew Trump was part of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex ring but was too polite to share that information.

To quote Dr. Evil, “Riiiiiiiiight.”

The Oscar winner slammed ICE this week, adding the obligatory Epstein reference for good measure.

“It is inhuman the way this administration is treating its citizens and its constituents and people in need. It’s an abhorrence what they’re doing. The ICE situation is out of control. It’s simply a distraction so that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein files.”

So far, there’s nothing in said files to implicate Trump. Maybe the Mueller probe will get to the bottom of this …

Shabusted

Shaboozey is learning one lesson the hard way: You can never, ever be woke enough.

The “Bar Song (Tipsy)” singer joined the anti-ICE chorus at Sunday’s Grammy awards, expecting a flood of positive press. And that’s when the trouble began for him.

“Immigrants built this country,” he said, hoisting his Grammy aloft. “So this is for them, for all children of immigrants.”

Stunningbrave! (Or is it bravestunning?) Not so fast.

A chorus of social media scolds attacked him for leaving black Americans out of his “built this country” shtick. Rather than risk a woke cancellation, he served up a mewling apology on his Instagram account.

“To be clear, I know and believe that we — black people, have also built this country. … My words were never intended to dismiss that truth.”

Who knows? Maybe he’ll write the first country song about being canceled and drowning his sorrows in a double shot of whiskey.

Trucker accused of killing 4 Amish men — and DHS claims he's an 'illegal alien'



A Kyrgyzstani semi-truck driver is in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody following a collision that caused the death of multiple individuals.

Around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Bekzhan Beishekeev, 30, was driving east on State Road 67 in Indiana when his truck collided head-on with a van, killing four of the vehicle's occupants.

'Beishekeev illegally came to the United States using the Biden administration's disastrous CBP One app and was released into the United States.'

Beishekeev was accused of failing to slow down for another semi-truck in front of him and swerving into oncoming traffic.

The collision killed Henry Eicher, 50; his two sons, Menno Eicher, 25, and Paul Eicher, 19; and a family friend, Simon Girod, 23, FreightWaves reported. The men belonged to Bryant, Indiana's Amish community. The van's driver, Donald Stipp, 55, reportedly underwent surgery and is in stable condition.

The Department of Homeland Security, which referred to Beishekeev as an "illegal alien," stated that the truck driver crashed into a van "carrying up to 15 passengers."

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated on Thursday that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was conducting an on-site investigation of the carrier that hired Beishekeev.

"There MUST be accountability for the community of Bryant, Indiana, who are devastated by the loss of their loved ones," Duffy declared. "I will continue to demand we shine a spotlight on these preventable tragedies and pray for the beautiful Amish community."

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Bekzhan Beishekeev. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Beishekeev is a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to the Indiana State Police. He entered the United States on December 19, 2024, in Nogales, Arizona, by using the Biden administration CBP One cellphone app.

"Beishekeev illegally came to the United States using the Biden administration's disastrous CBP One app and was released into the United States. Even worse, Josh Shapiro's Pennsylvania issued him a commercial driver's license," the DHS wrote. "Sanctuary politicians must STOP issuing commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens before another American is killed."

RELATED: 'Slow-walking' safety? Trump DOT threatens to yank $24M over Colorado's illegal CDL mess.

Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gov. Shapiro argued that Beishekeev had legal status.

“Every person who applies for a non-domiciled commercial driver’s license issued by PennDOT must provide proof of identify and proof of their legal presence in the United States. That information is verified by the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, administered by Kristi Noem and the United States Department of Homeland Security,” a spokesperson for Shapiro told Fox News.

"The individual in question had legal status in Kristi Noem’s database when the license was issued in July 2025 and still shows as eligible to receive a license as of today. Kristi Noem should focus on minding the shop in her own agency, as her incompetence and operational failures seem to be matching the scale of her moral failures as the Secretary of Homeland Security," the spokesperson added.

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Debate is always welcome, but violence is never acceptable



After weeks of hysteria in Minneapolis, with politicians and paid agitators alike calling for resistance, we saw a church targeted by those opposed to ICE. We have gone off the deep end. I penned an op-ed calling for what I thought was common sense and titled it “Turn Down the Rhetoric.”

The Columbus Dispatch printed the column after the shooting of Alex Pretti, but changed the title to read, “Renee Good wasn’t an ‘innocent.’” That’s the opposite of calming down the rhetoric. It was purposely inflammatory. Any wonder why people don’t trust the legacy media any more?

Compare Minnesota’s unrest with states like Florida and Texas, which have had far greater ICE activity and deportations.

Good’s life ended in tragedy. So did Pretti’s. That’s true whether you support President Trump or oppose ICE. Each incident affects families and communities and undermines trust in the system. My point in the op-ed was that rhetoric motivates action. Speech is free, but actions have consequences and — as we have seen — those consequences can be horrific.

There can be no mistake: Infringe on others’ rights or obstruct law enforcement, and you’re breaking the law.

When public officials encourage such “resistance,” they are only making a bad situation worse. But some, like my Democrat opponent for attorney general, Elliot Forhan, are still using vile rhetoric. He recently posted a video explaining how he will “kill Donald Trump.” That is the type of comment we should all oppose.

We need to turn down the temperature.

We should defend anyone’s right to express his or her views peacefully. Are you for open borders? Against ICE? You get to say so. You can even buy signs and shout it from a megaphone in the town square in a peaceful assembly. But those with the opposite opinions get to exercise the same right.

Violence is unacceptable. Let me restate that, because these days it seems like people read that as “violence is unacceptable unless I think it’s justified.”

Any violence, under any circumstance, is unacceptable.

Obstructing law enforcement personnel when they’re doing their job isn’t “peacefully protesting” or exercising your right to free speech. It is not OK to justify your actions because you believe someone else is violating the law.

Public officials should not incite violence or lawlessness. That is one of the reasons Minnesota’s sanctuary policies are so dangerous. Many of the arrests of violent illegal aliens could be made in the safety of the local jail or with the help of local law enforcement without street-level activity.

Compare Minnesota’s unrest with states like Florida and Texas, which have had far greater ICE activity and more deportations. The biggest difference is that those states cooperate, don’t have officials inciting lawlessness, and don’t accept protests that descend into mayhem.

That brings me to a simple point I taught my children when they started to drive. When interacting with law enforcement, be polite and cooperate. Say “yes, sir,” “no, sir,” and follow instructions. If police make a mistake, we can sort it out later — as the law requires. But don’t try to block the road with your car, refuse their instructions, or physically impede their activities.

RELATED: The left is at war in Minnesota. America is watching football.

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Police can mess up. When they do, they should be held accountable in court, under the law, with a presumption of innocence, just like everyone else. Police misconduct should be investigated and addressed. Ohio rigorously reviews use-of-force incidents, many of which are handled by the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the attorney general’s office. Wrongdoing will be punished, and it will continue to be punished when I’m attorney general.

Alex Pretti’s shooting was a tragic situation, and I want truth and justice as much as anyone. The investigation is ongoing, and as a strong Second Amendment supporter, I believe having a gun doesn’t make you inherently dangerous. Your actions while carrying a gun might, however.

Highly contentious protests can spiral out of control quickly, and actions and reactions can be deadly, particularly when human beings make decisions without the luxury of hours of analysis or instant video replays.

That’s why, as I made clear in my Columbus Dispatch op-ed, common sense means we need to turn down the rhetoric.