This link. If the police are in cahoots with the bandits, the bandits hold sway. In a nutshell that appears here to be Timmer's implication. The bandits being modern day copper barons, the worse of a breed.
No excerpt. Read the left.mn post. It is tightly written. It is informative. It is a step in presenting a story that yet may end well. Likelihood aside when every key politician in Minnesota is already on board to kissing the hands of the copper barons, and when Stauber and Emmer lead the House chorus. Last and present governor seem compromised in favor of copper baronies. Ditto the Amy and Tina show. Who represents integrity? Those filing the lawsuits, those informing the public of what seems a swindle against the earth, water, and people and all for a fleeting handful of Iron Range jobs. How coarse can things get? How bleedingly narrow a perspective can hold sway?