NBA postpones Wolves-Warriors game after another death in Minneapolis
two weeks agoThe matchup between the Wolves and the Cavaliers marked the Minneapolis franchise’s tribute to Renee Gooda woman killed by ICE while driving her vehicle.
Unfortunately, the situation hasn’t really calmed down since then and the NBA just postponed the meeting in between Wolves and the Warriorsscheduled for tonight, following the death of a man shot and killed by federal agents.
According to the US Department of Homeland Securitythe person in question was armed with a semi-automatic pistol and allegedly “violent resistance” before the agent “fearing for my life” do not open fire. A version vigorously disputed by Tim Waltz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, while the footage of the scene shows that the deceased indeed had a weapon in his belt, but that he never grabbed it, and that he would even have been disarmed seconds before he was killed…
Faced with the risk of excess, the NBA in any case indicates that it should “the safety and security of the Minneapolis community” his priority, and therefore does not want to interfere with a gathering that gathers thousands of people in the city center. If calm returns, the match could be played tomorrow, at 11:30 p.m.
However, it is not certain that the situation will calm down in twenty-four hours, after this new death, as well as the anger caused. by arresting a five-year-old childback in Minneapolis, that ICE agents were accused of using them as “bait” to lure his loved ones out of their homes and arrest them.
2026-01-24 20:57:00
