Riots broke out in Minneapolis in 2020 and were revived during 2025 and 2026 in opposition to ICE. Photo courtesy of Swarthmore University. Since 2020, the United States has experienced sustained waves of politically-motivated violence and property crime, from the BLM and Antifa riots following George Floyd’s overdose death, through a surge in urban shoplifting, to the current pattern of assaults on ICE officers during the Trump administration’s deportation operations. Throughout this period, mainstream media and Democratic officials have repeatedly dismissed conservative claims about the scale of this violence and crime as exaggerated, politically motivated, or fabricated. The documented data...