“It’s about time,” was my first reaction when I saw the headline on Michelle Goldberg’s column saying “The Right is Furious with Liberal White Women.” This has been an uncontrollable thunderstorm steadily building in ferocity for years. Conservatives have known for a long time that this was a huge problem and have ignored it at their peril. Truthfully, it’s worse that just liberal white women, because they are losing women, one demographic at a time, on one issue after another. Let’s be honest. When you lose women, it’s just a matter of time before you lose everything.

I know something about liberal white women. I was raised by southern women, which is a whole different problem. If you combine that with politics, right or left, it’s “Katie, bar the door” and no surrender until it’s the last man standing. I’ve worked alongside women my whole career, both liberal and progressive, and there’s not much space between those poles, it just a matter of degree before something makes them explode. They never forget, and forgiving can be equally rare.

On a Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens who live there, were taking part in an ICE watch. This is a legal activity where people observe and record law enforcement actions in public. It is an activity long protected by the First Amendment. That afternoon ended with them in cuffs after agents moved on them without warning.

The agents who moved on them didn’t knock or even shout orders. The first agent to reach Patty’s side jams a canister nozzle against the air intake vents near the windshield wipers. Inside the car, the air instantly turns caustic. A high-dose stream of pepper spray flooded directly into the sealed cabin, weaponizing the car’s own ventilation system.

This is a tactic that mirrors the times that DHS agents have used pepper spray on the air intake valves of inflatable costumes worn during protests.