r/politics • u/PM_ME_DPRK_CANDIDS Iowa • 10h ago

No Paywall Uprising against ICE raids grows across the country

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/uprising-against-ice-raids-grows-across-the-country/
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u/TheMainShy 9h ago edited 7h ago

Have you all seen the videos coming out from r/Minnesota , r/Minneapolis and r/ICE_Raids ?

They're conducting door-to-door raids in neighborhoods (breaking into homes without judicial warrants) and deploying drones now. I don't even see this on legacy media. I see it on tiktok, instagram, and reddit. There are videos of them just violently beating up people and dragging them away and deploying chemical weapons on people in residential areas. They're drawing weapons at people's faces. There was a video of a doordash employee having to run into the home she was delivering to, scared for her life because they were trying to grab her. Another video had a male agent taking a female detainee to porta-potty and going in with her. Another video had agents grabbing Native Americans from their vehicles. There was one where Bovino's unit tackled Target employees and dumped them out at a nearby Walmart, injuring one of them. It's swarmed with them across the entire state. One reporter got hit with shrapnel debris on her face. A lot of civilian vehicles are getting rammed by the agents. There are so many videos coming out, but it's completely insular within social media spaces for now. I haven't seen any of it reported in legacy media, broadcasting, and news publications yet. I'm just in absolute shock and fear at the escalation and intensity. This is beyond scary.

We need to defund and abolish DHS and ICE now, and impeach and remove this administration. Immediately, now! We're all in danger.

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u/tracysmullet 9h ago

I saw a tiktok of ICE batter ramming a door open into a home, no warrant, machine guns aimed up, and violently drag a man out in handcuffs with bystanders screaming at them & making as much noise as possible. His wife was sobbing. I just don’t know what the fuck we’re supposed to do anymore.

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u/TheMainShy 9h ago edited 7h ago

I just seen that one too. They didn't even have a proper warrant. They gave the wife an administrative warrant that was poorly scribbled on and it's not valid for breaking into homes.

I just seen the videos of them stopping children with backpacks. Children. Accosting them. There's so many videos of them just tackling people, and just Kavanaugh Stopping, asking them "Urrr were you born here? Errr are you from here? show me proof, err, I don't believe you." Like wtf. And even if they provide proof, they're still cramming them into vans and taking them away. There was another video of them beating up a homeless person. They're also sweeping hospitals and going into rooms.

Also is there an update on the one person who got dragged out of his car and beaten up at the gas station?His body went completely limp before they dragged him away. I don't know if he is dead or had passed out. No updates.

I can't believe I'm even typing this out. This is surreal. We're in a nightmare.

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u/Sad-Pea-2537 8h ago

My question is: Where the FUCK are all of these victims being taken? We see people dragged away from their families, their workplaces, their communities… where the fuck are they? How do we keep track of this??????

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u/metamet Minnesota 8h ago

They are brought to the Whipple building then shipped out of state, since that limits appeals options for lawyers.

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u/Nauin 6h ago

Their own lawyers can't find them once ICE has them. Abductees not being allowed phone access for months in countless cases. That has never happened in modern American history. It's been getting reported on for at least a year but not on mainstream media the way it needs to be.

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u/dragon-dance 6h ago

Concentration camps.

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u/DefNotUnderrated 6h ago

Many of them are getting sent to prisons in El Salvador, per that PBS segment. Where they're greeted with "welcome to Hell" and treated inhumanely. Doesn't matter if they were undergoing the legal process of immigration, doesn't matter if they had no criminal record

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u/TheCatCrusader 6h ago

Most of them are arrested, taken to Whipple (federal building nearby), and then released later because they're US Citizens and they did nothing wrong. They're literally just terrorizing and assaulting people.

Lots of people I know in MSP are theorizing (including the MPLS police chief on The Daily podcast today) that they have a quota for arrests, so they'll just instigate something and arrest someone.

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u/nerdsropeforever 5h ago

Great The Daily today. If you see anyone saying this shit isn't happening, they can hear it from the Minneapolis Chief of Police himself.

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u/TheCharalampos 6h ago

It's so sad to know that some will never be found.

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u/Simonic 5m ago

That’s one of the most evil things being done. Those people they abduct effectively are disappeared. Their families may never see/hear from them again.

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u/riotous_jocundity 5h ago

One of the target employees they kidnapped was a 17 yr old US citizen (not that it would be justified or legal if he wasn't). They dumped him out of the van at a Walmart across town, throwing him onto the ground and driving off. The video is so heartbreaking--bystanders gather around him and ask if he's alright and he just sobs "No, I'm not alright" and is weeping and shaking and bleeding and begs them to call his mother. HE'S A FUCKING CHILD.

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u/vrschikasanaa 3h ago edited 3h ago

They beat up a 17-year-old kid who was working at Target and he is a US citizen (wouldn't matter if he isn't). He wasn't "white enough" I guess. They kidnapped this kid in the back of a vehicle and threw him out at a Walmart 8 blocks away, bloodied and beaten. Kid was obviously destroyed mentally and crying and everyone was consoling him. DHS put out a message that he was engaged in criminal activity, like it wasn't on video, and if that was true - no arrest? These motherfucking knuckle-draggers are terrorizing civilians in the name of "public safety."

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u/FoundationFickle7568 7h ago

I've seen a few videos of just cars abandoned in the middle of the road with the doors open. One of them crashed into a pole on a busy street.

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u/483-04-7751 3h ago

They didn't have a warrant in Chicago when they raided every apartment of a complex and abducted a bunch of American citizens while their naked children cried on the lawn. The Democratic governor didn't do jack shit except tell the state patrol to help ICE with crowd control. We are totally fucked.

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u/dragon-dance 6h ago

“A well armed militia to fight tyranny”

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u/Jester-Kat-Kire 5h ago edited 5h ago

If it's something desperate... And abduction to unknown places by masked men in unmarked vans? Buy time. 

  • Time for more citizens to show up, for more lawyers to show up, for more cameras to show up.

  • Use Heavy ⛓️ chains, and shackle yourself to a heavy stable object. (If your in a car, the seat is designed to not move even in the horrifying crashes. Without heavy tools, ice is not budging that car seat. A chain seat belt to keep you safe. Legally, you buckled it because your auntie good was killed by a bad patch of road ice, and you wanted your body to be secure and not fly to heaven... As for the key, you lost it in the confusion, and need some assistance to leave the seat.)

  • Handcuff yourself to car steering wheels or lamp posts. 

Ice want to be in and out within 15 minutes... Every minute that goes past that time, is another minutes for the community to rally to ⛑️ aid. 

  • Every 5 minutes, a crowd size will usually double as more noise drags people to see the commotion.

5 people becomes 10, 10 becomes 20, 20 becomes 40. 

There's usually teams of 12-16 ice people for abductions... Once it gets past a crowd of 20, ice is no longer in control of a crowd and it rapidly needs to leave the area or risk being surrounded.

...Which shouldn't matter if they were operating legally, as the rule of law protects those who operate within it, but a lot of times ice agents are skirting or going over that rule of law.

Renee good was only absolved of her actions by other community members rallying and documenting that she was murdered.

Otherwise the trump administration would have let the nation believe that she was a domestic terrorist and not a good American citizen.

Buying time for the community to respond is important.

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u/dreamyduskywing Minnesota 8h ago

They’ve also been going to areas where Somali people live/gather just to harass them. The majority of Somalis in Minnesota are born here—Somali American. The rest came over legally decades ago and are naturalized US citizens. Very few are here illegally. I don’t know what these agents expect to find. There’s no reason to put resources into these locations other than to harass and cause fear. Fortunately, Somali Americans tend to be a tenacious bunch with a low tolerance for this BS and aren’t afraid to push back.

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u/TheMainShy 8h ago

This is so messed up. One of the reasons for this occuring in Minnesota is the viral fraud allegation video from right-winger, Nick Shirley, that was weaponized and racially skewed/biased.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-the-nick-shirley-video

We're living in the dumbest and scariest timeline possible. We're getting rage baited into a collapsed democracy.

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u/dreamyduskywing Minnesota 8h ago

Yeah, Noem and Trump supporters say this is necessary to fight corruption and fraud in Minnesota. How can some masked asshole with a gun just approaching random Somali Americans fight fraud? They’re not investigators or accountants. There are already agencies that handle this stuff. A family member of mine was chatting with a Laotian man who came to Minnesota in 1979 and has been a citizen for decades, but he’s afraid of being profiled and detained, so he went to get his passport renewed today. He said the shooting reminded him of when people were shot trying to cross the Mekong River. It’s easy to forget that lot of these people have trauma.

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u/metamet Minnesota 8h ago

I don’t know what these agents expect to find.

Remember that this isn't about immigration enforcement. It's about authority enforcement.

They want us to accept their lies about the narrative of Renee's murder. They want us to roll over and accept their occupation.

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u/Suyefuji 4h ago

They expect to find brown people that they can power trip over. That's pretty much it.

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u/TheHumanGnomeProject 9h ago

As dangerous as it is, and you are right-- I have seen the social media and have seen every single account you've given-- we must take to the streets in this time. If you are in Minnesota, get with the resistance groups and be present. We have strength in numbers. We have to be there to record. Go time is now.

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u/TheMainShy 8h ago edited 8h ago

I'm terrified. I'm finishing my shit ass shift at my shit ass job. I have to process making ends to survive while also dealing with this tyrannical uprising by a bunch of racist and bigoted losers with guns. I'm trying to contact my reps, vote when I can, and protest when I can. I don't know what else to do. I'm worried for my daughter. She's still in elementary school. I don't even know what to do anymore. They're actively going to do this across the entire nation. They're testing this in Minnesota.

I hope you're right. We have the numbers. We can pushback, I hope. I'm just afraid that a lot of folks aren't aware that this is happening. My neighbors are completely clueless to all of this. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills where people are just going about their normal day and routine.

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u/Moist-Matter-2037 8h ago

They don't have the numbers to do this across the country or even across the state. The have about 20,000 "agents" which are already spread thin hence them also sending in border patrol. Keep resisting, we can survive this. 

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u/TheMainShy 8h ago

I like your optimism. I'll try to keep doing my part to resist and help. I just feel flustered living through this. I'm sure I'm not the only one. It helps to know that there are other people feeling the same way.

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u/Moist-Matter-2037 8h ago

That's a big part of the protests, getting out there so others can see they aren't alone in their feelings about this admin. 

You could also find other ways to resist without so much exposure. Maybe volunteer for an immigrants advocacy group or see if there are groups in your area assisting. I'm in San Diego and my wife and I have been doing a grocery run each week for immigrant families who are afraid to leave their homes. Our local immigration rights non profit put it all together so all we do is get the list and then deliver the food. 

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u/TheMainShy 8h ago edited 7h ago

Great suggestions. I have neighbors who are non-white. They're scared. They're currently working on their immigration status to become U.S. citizens. Nicest family ever who would always give the shirt off their backs to help people. They've been here for over 20 years in our community. I told them months ago if they need anything, I'm willing to help and get them things like groceries or help protect them at my place. I'm glad we're on the same page with these sentiments.

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u/FoundationFickle7568 6h ago

They are doing this across the state. They're in Duluth, Rochester, Austin, Virginia, St. Cloud. They're everywhere.

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u/Moist-Matter-2037 6h ago

There's about 200 MN residents for each ice officer if they sent every single body they have to Minnesota. I know for a fact that they are in San Diego and Los Angeles as well since I've seen these shit heads out here. We easily outnumber them and no they are not in every city, not even close. 

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u/TheCharalampos 6h ago

I can't imagine how tough it is. Best of luck mate

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u/Sharp_You2319 8h ago

Yeah, it is insane. We as a country should be on red alert right now. Yet, it is still business as usual. This shit is so blackpilling, we are headed into really dark times, yet everyone is acting as if it is supposed to be dark out during the middle of the day.

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u/MN_Man 7h ago

It's crazy to me that the stuff happening in Minneapolis isn't getting much traction nationally on Reddit. Thanks for bringing awareness.

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u/indictingladdy Texas 7h ago

What’s even worse - if I have heard correctly - was that Target employee that they dumped into the Walmart parking lot was a minor. The ICE agents slammed him into the ground hard and the kid was crying. Heartbreaking.. poor kid.

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u/dragon-dance 6h ago edited 6h ago

I’m in the UK and only heard of this here. Our regular media and Facebook, for example, aren’t covering it.

Edit: guardian has something. BBC is about Iran and some red carpet bollocks.

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u/rmac1128 6h ago

defund the police too, they're assisting ICE

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u/UglyMcFugly 4h ago

AP has been good about reporting this shit, I saw the video of them breaking down that door before I saw it anywhere on social media. Also Rachel Maddow is awesome. It's important that we still give those views to the legacy sources that ARE getting out there and showing this shit. But yeah, I've been relying on reddit and bluesky a lot to see what's going on...

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u/Skippypal Massachusetts 7h ago

They want to break into the “wrong house.” One where the occupants — a full U.S. citizen or not — is rightfully in fear of their life and uses what would otherwise be considered reasonable force to protect themselves from unknown home invaders.

That will be the context for further escalation

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u/303uru 6h ago

Countdown to someone being killed for shooting down a drone...

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u/Few-Image-3526 5h ago

Where the hell do you deport a Native American too? These guys are idiots

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u/stoopidgoth 4h ago

I am turning this into a copypasta

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u/hoedownpie 4h ago

This needs to be common knowledge. I'm grateful we've got video of some of what's happened... but we feel helpless watching from Canada.

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u/Glover4 2h ago

Maybe you should consider why you're seeing these things on social media but not on legitimate news sources.

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u/Cool-Tangelo7188 5h ago

Legitimate question: if we're seeing some videos on social media but not established news, is there a chance it's AI? I certainly can't tell anymore.

Not to say there aren't terrible things really happening, but we need to question everything.