ICE shooting, Fed probe, and withdrawal from international organisations

Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. It was a where-to-begin situation this week: US involvement in Iran, Venezuela and Greenland was all making Swiss headlines. In the end I focused on Minneapolis, where an immigration officer shot and killed a woman in a car, resulting in ongoing protests and arrests. As one Swiss newspaper wrote, Minnesota shows where the division in American society comes from – and what it leads to. Massive protests in Minneapolis this week reflect outrage over the death of a 37-year-old woman shot dead in her car by an immigration officer. However, both camps are politicising the case irresponsibly, according to one Swiss newspaper. “The deadly ICE operation in Minneapolis is the result of Trump’s merciless immigration policy,” the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) declared on Friday. “But the Democrats ...