(Opinion) Big bad ski-masked would-be brave federal government tough guys rolled into the Hill to pick on some of the city’s most vulnerable people — only to be upstaged as cruel cowards by a 13-year-old girl who watched them take her mother away.
That sequence of events this week – an immigration arrest on Frank Street followed by the daughter’s brave speech at a downtown anti-deportation rally — revealed who are the true heroes and who are the villains as our city responds to an historic assault on due process and immigrant communities.
Other events this week highlighted health care heroes in Fair Haven, the quest for slumlord accountability, and the due process considerations in seeking calmer, safer streets.
Those are the subjects of the latest opinionated vlog news summary direct from the New Haven Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap. Click on the above video to watch, and post your own take below in the comments section.