Category: Politics
Minnesota police crack down on anti-ICE protesters, multiple arrests outside hotel
As talks between the Trump administration and Minnesota leadership continue, with some possible success, police have begun dealing with protesters more efficiently this week.
In a surprising turn of events, protesters in Minneapolis were swiftly dealt with near the Graduate by Hilton hotel.
‘All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down.’
In video originally captured on independent reporter Brendan Gutenschwager’s livestream of the protests in Minneapolis on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, protesters could be seen being kettled by police on a street block.
Police officers, who were reported to be Minnesota state police and University of Minnesota police officers, quickly formed a line on the street.
Photo by Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images
“All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down,” one officer says once the police line is set.
The video showed a few dozen protesters on the street, many of whom sat down immediately in compliance with the order.
Gutenschwager reported that this kettling tactic was used near the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis.
A second video of the aftermath of some arrests shows police walking arrestees toward a line of blue buses.
Frontlines TPUSA posted a video on the ground of the same event. Describing the scene, the cameraman says, “They’re being taken into these buses now with bars on the windows.”
Though the crowds seemed subdued during and after the kettling tactic, Gutenschwager’s livestream showed that the protesters were much more energetic and disruptive in the earlier hours of the night.
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Sad but True: Resistance Libs Are Showing MAGA Bros What Real Courage Looks Like
It’s time to admit the #Resistance is winning. Donald Trump’s MAGA loyalists have been outclassed by their liberal adversaries on every front. We might disagree with their politics, but that doesn’t mean we can’t applaud their unyielding passion and remarkable courage in the face of adversity.
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‘Submit or be murdered’: Ben & Jerry’s ice cream co-founder calls for ICE to be disbanded
The Ben of the famous Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company is calling for resistance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warned that the agency will kill anyone who doesn’t submit.
Ben Cohen cited two lethal shooting incidents involving federal immigration agents in a video message he posted to the X platform on Wednesday.
‘Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered.’
Cohen said he was going to announce a special ice cream to memorialize the life of Renee Good but that the killing of Alex Pretti made him change his mind.
“We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They’re coming for anyone, anywhere, who doesn’t submit,” Cohen said in the video.
“A brazen, arrogant, masked, militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution. Submit or be murdered, video them and be murdered, protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated.”
“This is not freedom. … This is not America. This is sheer cruelty. This is the beginning of the end of the land of the free unless we make it the home of the brave,” he continued.
He went on to call for ICE to be defunded and disbanded, and closed by quoting the Bible and also Christian Marxist Cornel West.
Ben & Jerry’s has been vocal about supporting liberal causes for many years and used their ice cream platform for advocacy.
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In 2024, the company called for Americans to recognize that the “US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it” for the Fourth of July.
In 2021, the company said it would refuse to sell its ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
In September, co-founder Jerry Greenfield stepped down from Ben & Jerry’s after accusing its parent company of stifling his left-wing speech.
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Federal cops in Pretti shooting placed on leave; Pretti’s family retains attorneys from George Floyd case
One Border Patrol agent and one Customs and Border Protection officer were placed on leave for their involvement in the lethal shooting of anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti, according to ABC News.
Also on Wednesday, Pretti’s family retained attorneys who had helped prosecute an officer in the death of George Floyd.
‘It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.’
The developments come after President Donald Trump and local Democratic leaders worked together to ease the tension from the incident Saturday.
A Department of Homeland Security notification to Congress obtained by ABC News indicated that both of the officers discharged their firearms during the incident.
Sources said that putting the two on leave was “standard protocol” for an officer-involved shooting.
Steve Schleicher is representing Michael and Susan Pretti, the activist’s parents, pro bono according to a statement from the family. Schleicher is a partner at the Minneapolis-based firm Maslon and worked as special prosecutor under Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in the trial against Derek Chauvin.
Micayla Pretti, the activist’s younger sister, hired her own attorney, Anthony Cotton of Kuchler & Cotton in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Democrats pounced on the death of the 37-year-old ICU nurse by resuming and amplifying their calls for the Trump administration to end all ICE operations and disband the agency. Others have called for Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to resign from the office.
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“What she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. “It’s just amateurish. It’s terrible; it’s making the president look bad on policy.”
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Pretti had gotten into a separate confrontation with federal agents about a week before his death. He had been tackled in that interaction and reportedly broke a rib when one agent leaned his knee on him. Pretti was released in that incident.
“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said a source who had spoken to Pretti.
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‘We will find you’: Soros-backed district attorney vows to ‘hunt down’ ICE agents who violate law
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is getting fierce backlash after he made a threat to “hunt down” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a speech outside city hall.
Krasner, who was propelled into office with the financial aid of left-wing billionaire George Soros, compared the federal agents to Nazis before making his threat.
‘The behavior of a psychopath with a badge.’
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” Krasner said to a cheering crowd. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them.”
He said that he and other prosecutors were backing efforts to prosecute federal agents involved in two lethal shootings in Minnesota and another shooting in Arizona.
“If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities,” he added. “We will find you. We will achieve justice, and we will do so under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”
Krasner was at the rally to support proposed legislation that would ban ICE from utilizing property owned by the city and implement other restrictions on federal operations without a judicial warrant.
The White House responded to Krasner and called him a “seriously deranged individual” in a post on social media Wednesday. Others responded on social media to a video that cut out Krasner’s appeal to the Constitution.
“Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, vowing to ‘hunt down’ ICE agents, is the behavior of a psychopath with a badge,” responded Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Penn.) in part. “Year after year, he fails to prosecute the criminals who continue to plague the City of Brotherly Love.”
“Will the media ask Dems to condemn?” replied White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Krasner previously threatened ICE agents with prosecution in Philadelphia after the lethal shooting of Renee Good.
“Oh no! Anyway,” reads a mocking response from the Department of Homeland Security.
Krasner’s campaign for DA got a boost in 2017 totaling $1.7 million from Soros, who supports prosecutors with left-leaning criminal prosecuting policies.
Despite facing spirited criticism against his soft-on-crime policies, Krasner easily won re-election in November with support of 72.6% of the voters against a Republican opponent.
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