Bruce Springsteen moves fast, especially when something pressing is on his mind.
A day after releasing a new fiery protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” he posted a video on Thursday, Jan. 29, for the tune.
It starts with a close-up of Springsteen’s bespectacled face and his acoustic guitar, singing in his home studio in New Jersey.
With lyrics appearing across the bottom of the screen, the video clip cuts between still photos and videos of scenes in Minneapolis.
There are photos of the memorials to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as well as that now-iconic photo of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the Columbia Heights preschooler who was taken with his father to a detention center in Texas.
There are also photos of President Donald Trump, his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as they are mentioned in Springsteen’s potent lyrics.
“Streets of Minneapolis” features all kinds of video scenes — federal agents detaining people, protesters raising their voices, the two sides facing off, , demonstrators parading peacefully, as well as Good riding in her car and Pretti struggling with officers.
Intermittently, the video cuts to an impassioned Springsteen, alone at the microphone, belting with an anguished look on his face.
