Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.
Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.(Jeffrey McWhorter/Reuters)

If the Washington Post’s news reporters were capable of shame, they probably would not be sticking with their description of a small-cell left-wing terrorist attack on federal law enforcement last year as a “protest” that went sideways.

The Post got plenty of grief last month when it described a July 4, 2025, attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Texas — one of three armed assaults on ICE and CBP facilities that year — as a “protest” that “turned violent.” That characterization was indefensibly misleading. As I wrote of that attack last month:

On July 4, federal agents were compelled

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