In their own driveway, two women had assault rifles aimed at them as fully armed and masked ICE agents shattered their car window and dragged them out. No warrant, no crime, only retaliation for observing.
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The Intercept reports that ICE agents have increased their targeting of US citizens who are acting as legal observers (also called “commuters”) who film and alert the community of ICE agents abducting immigrants in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
In a message circulated among commuters Friday, the community group Defrost MN, which uses crowdsourced data to track federal immigration operations, warned residents of an “uptick in abductions” — which refer to arrests of both immigrant community members and legal observers — following (Trump administration border czar Tom) Homan’s takeover and an increase in the number of government personnel and vehicles involved in those operations…
“National attention on Minnesota has waned with the departure of Bovino and rhetoric by Homan that things are de-escalating,” the group noted, but recent data and reports from commuters in the field did not support those conclusions.
Despite orders to the contrary, the group continued, “Agents continue to draw their weapons and deploy chemical agents against observers.”
Meanwhile, the deportation pipeline out of Minnesota continues to flow, with 66 shackled passengers loaded onto a plane the night of Homan’s address — the highest total in nearly two weeks — according to evidence collected at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport.
Friday’s mid-afternoon disappearance of multiple commuters in quick succession provided visceral evidence that, despite the change in leadership, the struggle between President Donald Trump’s federal agents and residents continues.
(Sources: The Intercept, Police the Police 2.0)