ICE-scrapers and Trump is coming
Your city should watch its throat
They called her a “bitch” for running
One slit up in Miniea-Sote
One slit up in Miniea-Sote
Cut her three times
Did they!
Their blades keep dicing us down
Just like the Kent State Guard before
And to our big crowds
Passing
They warn “Don’t make her bad choice —
We’ll have to ruin your life or more”
ICE-nappers and Trump is coming
You parents should batten your kids
They called her a “bitch” for running
One body on the boulevard skids
One body on the boulevard skids
Caught her three times
Did they!
Their hooks keep hauling us down
Just like old Nixon did before
They blush at the press
“You know,
These bums get what they deserve
And it’s no dragnet here — it’s war!”
ICE-fishers and Trump is coming
Your city’s just fin and bone
They called her a “bitch” for running
One gutted in the video shown
One gutted in the video shown
Photo by Rick Stachura. ICE alert whistles on 35th Avenue. Astoria, Queens. December 2, 2025.
Lyrics by Rick Stachura. “Miniea-Sote (Homage to Neil Young).” January 19, 2026.
Lyrics modeled on “Ohio” by Neil Young, as recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970.
References:
(1) “ICE” = United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal police force under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security.
(2) “Miniea-Sote” = Short for the state of Minnesota. In particular, the city of Minneapolis there.
(3) “Her” = Renee Nicole Good (1988-2026), a 37-year old citizen of the United States and Minneapolis resident with three kids.
(4) “Three times” = On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot Good three times in the face as she tried to maneuver her mini van away from him during an encounter (on Portland Avenue between East 33rd and East 34th Streets) in Minneapolis. After she died, her van slid across the street until crashing into a car parked on the side of the road. She was just blocks from her home. Multiple bystanders took video of the incident, including her partner.
(5) “Bitch” = The agent who shot Good captured himself on his own cell phone calling her a “fucking bitch” immediately after discharging his weapon.
(6) “Kent State Guard” = On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed four students at Kent State University who were protesting the United States’ increased involvement in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Neil Young wrote his original song with the incident in mind a few days later.
(7) “They warn” = On January 9, 2026, a United States Customs and Border Protection agent was caught on video telling a Minneapolis woman in a car he stopped: “Don’t make a bad decision today and ruin your life” — apparently suggesting she could wind up like Good.
(8) “Nixon” = Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), the 37th President of the United States from 1969-1974.
(9) “You know, these bums” = On April 30, 1970, in a televised address to the nation, Nixon announced that the United States was invading Cambodia. The next day, on May 1st, students on college campuses across the country added this declaration to the list of Vietnam-related actions they were protesting. As Nixon headed to a meeting at the Pentagon that morning, he stopped to speak to a group of civilian employees and others who had assembled in a corridor to greet him. He told them: “You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, storming around about this issue. You name it. Get rid of the war there will be another one.”