{"id":2255812,"date":"2026-01-29T05:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2255812"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:16:24","slug":"streets-of-minneapolis-bruce-springsteen-releases-new-protest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/streets-of-minneapolis-bruce-springsteen-releases-new-protest-song\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Streets of Minneapolis:&#8217; Bruce Springsteen releases new protest song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday released a new protest song titled &#8220;Streets of Minneapolis,&#8221; written to commemorate residents&#8217; protests against the Trump administration&#8217;s ongoing immigration crackdown in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The song references Minneapolis locales, &#8220;King Trump\u2019s private army,&#8221; and the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good after they were shot by Border Patrol and ICE officers earlier in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,&#8221; Springsteen said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;It\u2019s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWKSoxG1K7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The song begins:<\/p>\n<p><i>Through the winter\u2019s ice and cold<\/i><br \/><i>Down Nicollet Avenue<\/i><br \/><i>A city aflame fought fire and ice<\/i><br \/><i>\u2018Neath an occupier\u2019s boots<\/i><br \/><i>King Trump\u2019s private army from the DHS<\/i><br \/><i>Guns belted to their coats<\/i><br \/><i>Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law<\/i><br \/><i>Or so their story goes<\/i><br \/><i>Against smoke and rubber bullets<\/i><br \/><i>By the dawn\u2019s early light<\/i><br \/><i>Citizens stood for justice<\/i><br \/><i>Their voices ringing through the night<\/i><br \/><i>And there were bloody footprints<\/i><br \/><i>Where mercy should have stood<\/i><br \/><i>And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets<\/i><br \/><i>Alex Pretti and Renee Good<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The White House released a statement in response to the song:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump Administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities \u2014 not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information,&#8221; spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n        appId : '831625585470146',\n    xfbml : true,\n    version : 'v2.9'\n    });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n    js.async = true;\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scrippsnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday released a new protest song titled &#8220;Streets of Minneapolis,&#8221; written to commemorate residents&#8217; protests against the Trump administration&#8217;s ongoing immigration crackdown in the city. 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