Law and Liability in the Minneapolis ICE Shooting

Steve Scaffidi and Kristin Brey opened the show with the tragic news out of Minneapolis, speaking with Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty attorney Rick Esenberg about the ICE agent who shot a woman in her car. The conversation unpacked the rapidly forming partisan fault lines, with responses from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, while also examining the legal questions, accountability, and what to watch as the investigation unfolds. The focus then shifted to Wisconsin’s local and long-term challenges. In the “Forward Thinking” segment, City Forward Collective executive director Colleston Morgan joined in studio to explain why property taxes are rising across multiple communities as school districts struggle to fund education, particularly special education, amid limited state support. That discussion continued into Milwaukee’s outsized role in those increases. The second hour leaned into hyperlocal reporting with Urban Milwaukee president Jeramey Jannene, who delivered updates on the city’s crackdown on habitual parking violators (the other HPV), debated speed bumps and sidewalk shoveling, and highlighted adaptive reuse projects like converting a historic church into apartments. The show wrapped with a deep dive into City Hall power struggles, police settlement costs, and Milwaukee’s push to incentivize affordable housing development.