The quick release of protest songs by Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg after the shootings of protesters in Minneapolis recalls the release of Neil Young's song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young within weeks of the shooting of four demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio on 4 May 1970. Springsteen writes of "King Trump's private army from the DHS"; Young wrote of "tin soldiers and Nixon coming." With Young and Buffalo Springfield, Stephen Stills released an earlier protest song in 1966, "For What It's Worth". It was later understood as an anti-war song, but Stills wrote it in support of demonstrations against curfews in Los Angeles in November 1966. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 30 January 2026)