Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers,
everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods
—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.
“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE,
I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says.
The call goes quiet for a few seconds.
“I’m being pulled over.”
Dispatch chimes in:
“Stay unmuted,
turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call,
everyone else please stay on mute.”
We hear banging,
then something shatters.
“ICE just smashed their window,”
our driver explains calmly,
decelerating ahead of a red light.
We are shocked,
but this is a regular occurrence.
Everyone on the call keeps their cool.
We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them,
boxing them in,
smashing their car windows,
pepper-spraying them,
holding them at gun point,
shooting out their tires,
detaining them.
Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters,
the #Whipple building.
Others have been driven to the other side of the city
and thrown out of the vehicle, ❄️alone in the cold.
Their cars have been left running in the road.
The responders tell us all these stories in passing,
quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.
Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.
A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone,
they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.
But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.
They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.
They make ❤️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses.
They make dinners for one another,
they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.
They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road,
an entire café full of people stood up as one,
dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound.
We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors.
Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions
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Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.
It’s not just an uptick in raids.
It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.
You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.
They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.
They don’t check papers.
Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.
We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •At this very moment, ICE is undergoing a transformation into a #political #police force.
Recent leaks show that
💥secret ICE programs seek to exploit every detainee to acquire information,
💥and they aim to deploy up to 2000 “intelligence” assets into communities around the country for the purpose of #spying on migrants and citizens alike.
These operations
—and the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security in general
—are not just targeting immigrants;
🆘 They are also intended to target opponents of the Trump regime.
The administration alleges threats from so-called “Antifa” and the “radical left”
to justify their authoritarian consolidation of power.
But the fact that the FBI called Renee Good a domestic terrorist
and pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow
shows what they mean by these terms.
🔥The “radical left” is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents
—or anyone that they would like to murder.
Whenever they say “radical left,” they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people
-- the way that they murdered Renee Good,
and they intend to do so with impunity.
When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme on its official social media account promoting “100 million deportations,”
it should be clear to all that ICE is not just targeting those who currently lack the proper immigration documents.
⛔️They have all of the hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Trump agenda in their sights.
Given a free hand, they will kidnap or murder every single one.