A top Prosecutor appointed by Trump, Joe Thompson, resigned specifically because he said he wasn't allowed to investigate Jonathon Ross. But was instead told to investigate Renee Good's widow.
That crossed a line for him and he and several other lawyers opted to END their career instead of being a part of this fascist invasion.
Good on them.
Another day, another unlawful detainment of a US Citizen simply for recording ICE activity
A father was choked and illegally arrested by federal agents for exercising his rights to film police.
He was held for 9 hours and saw several other citizens illegally detained for the same thing.
Cops eventually released him without charges after his attorney got into contact with authorities.
📸 Fox 9 - https://www.fox9.com
#UnlawfulDetainment #Woodbury #StPaul #Minnesota #MinnesotaICE #ICE
Up early to read the court updates and sadly Federal Court Judge Menendez is taking a leisurely pace and refused to put in place the TRO (temporary restraining order) against DHS today.
The Feds are expected to have a formal response by Jan 19.
State of Minnesota's reply is due Jan. 22.
Next hearing for oral arguments in the case pending. Schedule is TBD.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115885943747303483
#DHS #ICELawsuit #KeithEllison #Bovino #kristinoem #minnesota
Attached: 1 image The full text of Minnesota's lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security can be read below. This suit was entered into US District court of Minnesota and if I'm reading the court calendar correctly they will be a motion hearing on Wednesday. There's some VERY alarming instances of police violence directed against State's attorney who happened to witness an ICE arrest first hand. #CourtWatch #MinnesotaICE #KeithEllison https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf #FuckICE #DHSLawsuit
This is very disappointing but not at all surprising.
It sounds unlikely that the court will act to stop ICE before the end of the month.
Video posted this morning at the Whipple Fdereal Building last night show ICE setting off "flash bang" grenades, teargas and mace as they violently arrest random people near the facility again.
This building is where countless US citizens have been illegally detained. We know these detentions are illegal because Federal and local prosecutors have hardly had any charges submitted for these individuals.
📸 reportermark via TT
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #FuckICE #minneapolis #StPaul
The politicians & judges aren't coming to our rescue this week. We're looking at at minimum a week+ of unopposed ICE snatching's of foreigners and citizens alike given the court schedule.
So I think the theme until the system decides to work has to be "we protect us"
Going to re-post some mutual aid requests from folks in Minnesota
First one is a legal aid request:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-aid-support-for-mauricio-facing-ice
#MutualAid #ICE #CourtWatch #LegalAid #minneapolis #MutualAidRequest
This one is for a man who was brutually assaulted by ICE agents last Friday in video that went viral all over the internet.
That man was homeless and lived in his car. ICE just showed up suddenly, beat him up and impound his car.
He's asking for help with legal bills, impound fees and housing.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-juan-carlos-after-assault-and-hospitalization
#Homeless #Housing #minneapolis #ICE #FuckICE #MutualAidRequest
@thelusciouslibra noticed this older mutual aid request from a family in St. Paul who needed help with legal funds & living expenses after one of the partners was snatched.
We don't really know what happened with this one but now that these issues are getting attention its important to check back in on some of these earlier victims of ICE.
IF you're looking to support a formal legal defense fund for Immigrants besure to checkout the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota:
#Immigration #ICE #minnesota #minneapolis #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #MutualAid #LegalAid
Lastly there's the Minnesota Freedom Fund which operates a bail fund.
Bail funds and jail support are critical aidlines for the many everyday people who will come into police contact because of this ICE occupation.
The fundraiser for Renee Good's family hit $1.5M raised and stopped accepting donations just two days after Renee's death.
The last update on January 9th read:
"Thank you for your generosity. We’ve closed this GoFundMe and will place the funds in a trust for the family. If you’re looking to donate, we encourage you to support others in need. We’re truly grateful."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son?modal=updates
#ReneeGood #mutualaid #ICE #minnesota #Minneapolis #Immigration #acab
In Minneapolis this morning there was a flood of viral video showing ICE in unmarked cars crashing into motorists at random and arresting the person before they can even understand what's going on.
Seems like ICEs latest tactics is to just bamboozable people and sort out the details like citizenship or immigration status later.
I'm sure they'll claim people rammed them so they "had to arrest them".
📸 JonFarinaPhoto via Twitter
As usual, anytime ICE tries to patrol on foot the first Minnesotan that won't comply is the snow.
Latest submission for #ICEonICE
Breaking, Federal agents in Minneapolis have caused another shooting in the city.
Details are still emerging updates to come.
Early reports indicate that a Hispanic teenager was shot in the leg with live ammunition by ICE agents.
There's also possibly a second victim in this ICE shooting.
Governer Tim Walz was giving an emergency address right before news of this latest ICE shooting broke.
In his address Walz urged citizens to document everything ICE does. IF you see ICE in a mask, video tape them. If you see them without a mask, also video tape them. IF you see them standing around, you know the drill video tape.
Walz says they will pursue all ICE operations that break the law.
Right as Walz's address ended news of the latest ICE attempted murder began circulating.
I'm at a meetup right now, but checking on the OTG live streams I'm seeing massive clouds of teargas being released in residential neighborhoods in the North of Minneapolis.
Something tells me waking up to a cloud of chemical warfare agents is not going to win ICE many supporters.
📸 Star Tribune
Ok this is a pitched riot cop battle in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
I'm out of my event (at my next one) and taking a second to check in on comrades on the ground.
Looks like cops have abondanded vehicles leading to protesters capturing equipment and paperwork. Some of which indicating who ICE plans to snatch next from the community, strategic guides, hotels and tons of other internal comms.
📸 FordFischer
Alright in the light of morning more details are coming out.
It appears the initial ICE shooting incident occurred as ICE attempted to go door to door last night.
They came to a Spanish speaking household who refused to comply with illegal orders.
Instead the family called their local police for assistance.
Their side of that call was recorded and posted online this morning.
Update: Translated video attached
It's still unclear what exactly happened next.
So far it seems at some point ICE fired live ammunition through the home's front door and possibly into the second story of a home injuring two people.
Neighbors say the ICE shooting victim they knew of last night was a pregnant women.
According to community members initial shooting turned into a standoff as the family still refused to open their door for ICE.
After local police showed up ICE was still on the scene.
The combined fact of continued ICE presence, forced evacutations and the fact the woman was not receiving care clearly caused a lot of people to hurl insults at the cops.
Again, I was not OTG nor in MPLS so I'm piecing this together from online sources.
From a few accounts at somepoint ICE left the neighborhood partially on foot. It kinda sounds like the essentially fought their way out are attacked the crowd to create a hole or distraction to retreat.
What I can tell for sure is that after a crowd formed (largely displaced neighbors) and ICE watcher arrived ICE got scared and went rambo.
Average people started showing up to the scene as the news spread through the neighborhood and city.
This entier interview feels like it could have been lifted right out of a 2020 time capsule.
Reporter ZDRoberts interviews a man who says this is his first time ever showing up to a protest.
He describes being at home and seeing this news and realizing he needed to show up for his community.
📸 ZDRoberts via Status Coup News
https://www.zdroberts.com
ICE actually at several times was overwhelmed by the crowd and you can see ICE and local cops retreating from various positions they took up after the shooting.
📸 NickAtNews via Twitter
BORTAC units were scene attempting to do crowd control wearing night vision goggles and caring battle rifles.
As usual, civilians do NOT like cops dressed like an army.
They too were forced to retreat.
Neighbors who were forced out of their homes by ICE report being first told to evacuate.
But once they got in their car with their SIX children ICE turned their guns on the father and shouted confliting ordrs.
Ultimately ICE threw flashbangs and teargas INSIDE of the family's car whom they had just forced to evacuate.
#BlackDadsMatter #Minneapolis #Minnesota #BlackLivesMatter #FuckICE
Again, this video feels like a 2020 documentary.
The father explains that teargas was coming into their home which is why they HAD to evacuate.
Things like this, teargassing civilians who were not attending any protest but instead were literally in their home, likely asleep at the time is a 4th amendment violation.
#FreeMinneapolis #FuckICE #BlackLivesMatter #Minneapolis #MinnesotaICE
A blog post from folks who were on the ground last night just got posted.
In it they explain how ICE lost control of the scene and ultimately the crowd affected some dearrests as well as liberation of equipment previously used by ICE.
At least two ICE vehicles were decommissioned, a safe full of guns and ammo were liberated.
Most importantly significant paperwork revealing possibly the names of the murderous ICE crew who shot civilians.
As the aftermath of yet another ICE shooting was playing out on the north of Minneapolis, back near the airport at the Whipple Federal Building feds were quick to push back the peaceful crowd of protesters that has been there almost continuously since the shooting death of Renee Good.
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #FuckICE
“They threw piss, make sure to write that down!”
Before all hell broke loose last night a group of BORTAC cops were filmed complaining that the only warm welcome they received in Minneapolis was a bottle of urine kindly offered to them by the community.
Anywho, always remember, many protest succeed because at some point the cops won't have the moral to show up to work.
📸 FordFischer
Trump today is defending ICE's actions last night and threatened to invoke the insurrection act.
Trump loyalist have pointed to the fact that US District court choose not to issue an emergency restraining order this week, making the likelihood of US court intervention before the end of the month a fantasy.
Local news station FOX9 had a decent explainer on Trump's threats this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3q6nGxfp1Y
#Trump #TimWalz #FOX9 #minneapolis #minnesotaICE #FuckICE #DoNotComply #MayorFrey
In response to Trump's escalation Minnesota Governor Tim Walz continues to appeal for the public to remain peaceful.
He said the same message in his address last night (which happened before the shooting) and reiterated it again this morning both in writing and by reposting clips from last night's address.
The young man who was shot in the eye by DHS police at point blank range is out of the hospital and gave a brief interview this week.
📸 KTLA5
See the full interview 👇🏿
Earlier masto post: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115891748182697772
#SantaAna #ICEShooting #KadenRummler #ReneeGoodProtests #ReneeGood #KTLA #FuckICE
Meanwhile the chief of police in Minneapolis has taken to the Wall Street Journal to complain about how ICE is making ALL cops look like shit.
Its pretty clear that Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara is afraid that ACAB could apply to his department and is trying to distance his department from ICE's tactics.
Of course despite the fact that his department is frequently protecting ICE agents on the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGgFZ1BwpY
#WallStreetJournal #Minnesota #Minneapolis #BrianOHara #ACAB
Here's first hand account of a Minnesotan who was illegally detained by ICE.
She describes ICE taunting and harassing her after arrest. The agents literally don't understand why we have not already been terrified away from protesting.
Take away is that these arrests are illegal, most protesters won't even be charged bc ICE has no legal basis to charge most citizens.
📸 pokeefe89 via TikTok
#minnesota #minneapolis #ICE #ReneeGoodProtests #FuckICE #DoNotComply
In yet another leak of ICE documents by a disgruntled cop there was reporting from Ken Klippenstein yesterday detailing some of the jailing and interrogation processes which the activist above may have been subjected to.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-ice-programs-revealed
"Out of your homes into the streets"
That was a popular 2020 chant... I'm seeing the exact same conditions again this morning.
Interview after interview from people last night literally forced out into the street.
Leading to renewd protests on the ground today.
Its feeling like the protest flood gates are opening.
We're at the point now where real estate agents (you know, apolitical people who are adjacent to the ownership class) are detailing their illegal detention at the hands of ICE.
This is about as centrist as America comes, even the lilly white TikTok real estate agents are not safe.
They also know that ICE is an existential threat to their capitalist endevours.
📸 Ryan Eckland via tiktok
https://www.tiktok.com/@https://www.tiktok.com/@realtorryanecklund
Everyday Americans, like this real estate agent, really want our local politicians and cops to step up and protect their citizens from ICE.
Jacob Frey gave air to these reasonable requests last night, that local cops protect the city, and I think visibly conflicted reaction from Chief Brian O'Hara tells us all we need to know.
The local cops do not look remotely ready to meet this moment.
Back at the Federal Building the crowds are as big as ever there and of course very peaceful given the fascist operation taking place within the building.
Undisciplined ICE cops have been seen attempting to incite the crowd and prove confrontations today by randomly throwing teargas when there is no reason or apparent oder to do so.
📸 MercadoMedia1
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #StPaul #Minneapolis #FuckICE
Status Coup News interviewed this sweet elderly lady at the local ICE HQ who was teargassed.
She really gives a perspective of the type of person who is NOW getting fed up and willing to put their life on the line to protest ICE.
#FuckICE #BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE
Early this week I saw community activist begining to raise the alarm about the rising risk of evictions in Minneapolis.
With ICE sntatching people at work or on their way to or from work its pretty clear ICE intends for this to be something of a racist ecnomic embargo.
MPLS Council man Jason Chavez has begun echoing those concerns and is starting to fight for an eviction moratorium in Minneapolis.
📸 City Council of Minneapolis
#minneapolis #JasonChavez #FuckICE #housing #evictionmoratorium
Head of CBP Bovino, was seen at the Whipple Federal building this afternoon looking like a tyrant's henchman.
He was gaurded by I guess his personal security. Which if they're trying to not look like a gaggle of undisciplined proud boys this is not helping them beat the charge.
Bovino took to Fox news tonight to complain that not enough local cop resources were going into protecting his operation at the federal building.
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #FuckICE #StPaul #Minneapolis #Bovino
As night fell at the federal building tonight protesters on the ground noticed ICE agents coming and going from the facility.
The masked unidentified gunmen pointed their handguns at the crowd as the passed by.
#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #FuckICE #ProudBoys #Minneapolis #StPaul #MinnesotaICE
It's happened again!
ICE / CBP has just shot and killed another Minnesotan this morning.
What was his crime? It sounds like he was legal gun owner and random woman being chased by ICE ran in his direction and grabbed ahold of him.
For this they tackled him.
He NEVER drew his weapon!
He did not approach any ICE officer, he didn't appear to wave a gun in his hand or anything like that!
On the ground CBP found he had a gun, took it, then shot him TEN times!
Here's the footage of today's murder by ICE / CBP agents.
In it you can see how EVERY single ICE claim about him being a terrorist or whatever is completely false.
RIP Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Who was Alex Pretti?
First off the last photo of Alex alive shows him holding his phone, bravely filming the police prior to his murder.
In his day-to-day life Alex was an ICU nurse who clearly cared deeply about his community.
ICE's frivolous attempts to slander this upstanding member of his community will not work.
Rest in Power
Alex Pretti
✊🏿 🖤
Finally a story out this week about cops protecting a random citizen from an unconstitutional ICE arrest . . .
There's a few... umm interesting details here I couldn't help notice.
Basically the person arrested seems to have been family friends of their local Police Chief in St. Peter. The police chief took it upon himself to contact ICE and directly picked up the kidnapped woman and returned her home personally.
On the one hand, amazing to see the cops finally "standing up" but also I hope you've got friends in high places I guess if you want the constitution enforced.
While I'm more of the ACAB crowd I think @mekkaokereke context both shows how "reformed" this police department is relative to others, but I think that only serves to further underscore the erosion of right's I commented on above.
Where does this put us in the US where the fact is becoming more clear to see... that some people will get a cop who responds and only "observes" ICE or just checks their badge and leaves... all while personal friends of cops get top service.
Cops in St. Peter. Minnesota, intervene in an ICE arrest. ♥️👍🏿 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident St. Peter Minnesota's police scorecard is better than most police departments in the US. There is no racial disparities in killings by St. Peter police, because... St. Peter police haven't killed anyone in the last 13 years.🤷🏿♂️ And St. Peter has a higher percent of Black residents than California. https://policescorecard.org/mn/police-department/st-peter Mayor Shannon Nowell talks about ICE activity and law enforcement from the perspective of protecting the community *from* ICE agents. Police chief Matt Grochaw lists 8 times that his officers have "had to make contact" with ICE agents, and speaks about the impact to community safety and well-being. https://www.southernminn.com/st_peter_herald/news/city-releases-report-on-ice-impact/article_4d1ca22d-575c-4c7f-b541-f7fae920c7dd.html My point: "Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first" is true. But it has corollaries: "A community that is more resistant to racism, is more resistant to fascism."
Unfortunately, most of America does not live under a police force which gets even as high marks as St Peter MN.
Most of the US is policed by law enforcement leaders who still see no issue at all with ICE killing civilians.
In Minneapolis anytime civilians go an inch further than where the politicians currently are willing to go to stop ICE they are immediately threatened and harassed by local cops.
In videos from Minesota locals this week, they showed how they were harassed by local cops for holding ICE block parties.
Communities are holding block parties in key locations allowing them engage in traffic calming which makes ICE agents uncomfortable about getting out quickly after abductions.
There's several groups posting online about various traffic calming protests in Minneapolis this weekend.
This flier explains the idea for the protest
📸 MPLS_Spring Via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/minneapolis-spring.bsky.social
Meanwhile in other supposedly Blue states the local cops are MORE than happy to simply observe ICE doing obviously illegal shit.
In a case from California this week a US citizen live streamed her illegal arrest all while local cops looked on and did not intervene.
📸 ABC7
https://abc7.com/post/woman-livestreams-ice-detainment-agents-smash-car-window-el-monte/18513531/
Don Lemon is out and says he'll be right back to journalism as usuall after his unwarranted arrest for his on the ground coverage of ICE Minneapolis.
📸 Don Lemon
Hot off the presses, the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been identified as Jesus Ochoa and officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Both are cops with the CBP (customs & border patrol) and according to ProPublica have been named in government documents.
Incredible interview with Minneapolis city councilman Soren Stevenson who lost an eye to a "rubber" bullet shot at him by MPD during the Goerge Floyd protests.
"Truly, I see this as a moment when we are deciding right here in Minneapolis—in this country—are we going to have a democracy going forward, or are we not? The stakes are no greater and no smaller than that."
I reported a month and a day ago on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis of a Venezuelan who luckily survived the encounter.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115896994205984383
Well this week we got new reporting from the mainstream media indicating that charges in that ICE shooting incident have largely been dropped.
Even the Trump DOJ admitted that the ICE/CBP agents involved lied about the circumstances so much that they have been placed on administrative leave.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/15/us/ice-shooting-dhs-doj-false-statements
The fact ICE hasn't really left Minneapolis seems like it needs repeating lately.
"ICE has trained agents to break the constitution" -Sen. Blumenthal
The long, slow, nagging arm of justice is at least getting some helpful whistle blowers now and US Senator's are working to build consensus to impose reforms on ICE.
See ICE lawyer turned whistleblower, Ryan Schwank's full statement from yesterdays hearing below on youtube 👇🏿
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6TrCEeJW0M
#RyanSchwank #Blumenthal #ICE #CBP #DHS #FuckICE #Trump #MAGA #acab
These hearings are definitely a key step in the right direction to reign in ICE.
Senator Blementhal's opening remarks do a good job to lay out how ICE is now completely breaking the constitution when they break into American's homes.
And tbf the Senators all really knocked it out of the park by providing a platform for ex-ICE employees to speak to the country about how the agency is operating internally.
Uvalde proved once and for all that the cops are worse than useless. They're in the way.
There's a name for people who rely on police to protect them. They're called "victims." The SCOTUS agrees. Police have no legal obligation to protect us.
See: Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)
See also: DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989)
#Alt4u 1/n
Flyer with the following heading and text
10, 100, 1000
FILTER
BLOCKADES
A PROPOSAL: What would it take to begin coming together across the entire Twin Cities, establishing filter blockades to secure community control over zones or neighborhoods?
ICE has been effective with a "turn-and-burn" mobile strategy, in which they move quickly through our communities, kidnapping our neighbors before too many people are able to respond.
#alt4u 2/n
While rapid response & commuting both continue to be an essential part of resisting ICE, we can extend our capacities by introducing filter blockades across the city.
These blockades also provide a place where neighbors can enjoy time together, and strategize in the fight against ICE. While neighbors are able to pass through unimpeded with a friendly wave, ICE is forced to contend with friends who report their activity to the neighborhood ...
#alt4u 3/3
... and can be the site of a more spirited collective response.
All you need is a few determined friends and some traffic-slowing materials, like street cones or old furniture. Blockades can both be used locally within neighborhoods, or proactively along major arteries ICE travels.
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It’s been really, •really• interesting watching the behavior of the Mpls Police Dept during the occupation. On the one hand, many of them are obviously on ICE’s side, chumming it up with them etc. On the other hand, the city has a pretty strict separation ordinance (they’re not allowed to help ICE), and beyond that they’re desperate to regain community support after the GF uprising — so they have conspicuously •not• been instigating nearly the same degree of violence we’d expect from them. The handful of times they have backed up ICE directly in a confrontation with neighbors, there was major blowback and the dept backed off hard.
There’s some invisible that they’re toeing but not crossing. Only they know what the line is, and it’s in flux. But it’s there. They know they’re on thin ice with the population (pun intended).
Not so with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, i.e. county police, who’ve been just wretched, flagrantly helping ICE and going off the rails with protestors. HCSO is due for a major reckoning if we still have a democracy when this all ends.
What a brave woman. I like her a lot.
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