Florida Official Responds Incident Involving Trooper

By
Mark Stevens
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If this doesn’t brighten your day at least a little, you might want to check your pulse. Some stories arrive gift-wrapped, and this one comes complete with a bow, a grin, and a satisfying sense that gravity still works.

We’ve talked before about the AWFL phenomenon—Affluent White Liberal Females—those perpetually aggrieved activists who seem to have unlimited free time, boundless moral certainty, and an almost supernatural confidence that the law should bend around their feelings. Lately, however, the ongoing chaos surrounding immigration enforcement, particularly in places like Minnesota, appears to have flipped some internal switch. The TikTok rants from kitchens and bathroom mirrors are no longer enough. Now, they’re mobilizing.


And by mobilizing, we mean swarming.

In video after video, these self-styled resistance warriors film themselves issuing menacing threats, rehearsing whatever brand of performative outrage they think qualifies as courage, then converging en masse to harass and obstruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. They show up loud, shrill, and armed with those ear-splitting whistles that seem designed to test the limits of human patience. When they aren’t blowing whistles, they’re shrieking obscenities with a level of venom that would make a seasoned drill instructor pause.


The smugness is almost clinical. There’s a kind of deranged schoolmarm-on-a-power-trip energy to it all—less righteous protest, more unhinged theater. And in many states, authorities have been maddeningly restrained, allowing these confrontations to escalate far beyond what any reasonable person would consider peaceful protest.

But then there’s Florida.

Florida, it turns out, did not get the memo about indulging this nonsense.

One particularly inspired resister, apparently emboldened by watching her northern comrades play-act revolution with minimal consequences, decided she’d take her stand as well. She jumped out of her car and physically struck a Florida State Trooper. It was, shall we say, an educational moment.


What followed was swift, efficient, and deeply satisfying. Ms. Cruz was promptly escorted—firmly—into a patrol car. Her enthusiasm evaporated instantly, replaced by the kind of tantrum that only reinforces why adults shouldn’t be allowed to confuse activism with immunity. The charges piled up quickly: battery on law enforcement, resisting with violence, fleeing and eluding, threatening officers, driving with a suspended license. Not exactly the résumé of a peaceful protester.

And that’s the point.

Standing on a sidewalk and expressing dissent is one thing. Physically obstructing law enforcement, threatening officers, or assaulting them is something else entirely. When consequences follow immediately and decisively, the performative bravado collapses just as fast as it did here.


If this approach were applied consistently, the swarms would thin out quickly. The streets would be calmer. And ICE could do its job without being surrounded by shrieking whistles and self-appointed revolutionaries discovering—often for the first time—that the law still applies to them, too.

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