Locals react to ICE deaths in Minneapolis

Get ready: Trump's deportation team heading to Ohio

SANDUSKY — The grainy bystander videos from Minneapolis depict a chaos that feels a world away from the quiet streets of Erie County. Yet, for local leaders, the fallout from “Operation Metro Surge” has become an unavoidable litmus test of local sovereignty versus federal power.

In the wake of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—the latter a VA nurse killed while filming federal agents—Sandusky’s political landscape has split into a vivid contrast of vocal condemnation and a profound, conspicuous silence.