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J6 veteran Jake Lang dropped in on Minneapolis today
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raid...sota/601546426
After 9/11, George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent future terror strikes. Now DHS shifted from defending the country against foreign terrorists to deploying agents on American streets for the purpose of terrorizing American citizens.
J6 veteran Jake Lang dropped in on Minneapolis today
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raid...sota/601546426
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-17-2026 at 03:38 PM.
snacks' only use of AI
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-18-2026 at 02:56 PM.
snatching children has been happening all along
We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same.
US citizen targeted for no good cause -- er, skin tint and head covering -- roughed up and detained for two days by ICE
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/1...-in-detention/Ahmed, who lives with an aunt in the complex off Lower Afton Road in St. Paul, said she had just left home around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to pick up her prescription medication when two Somali-American men ran past her in the parking lot.
Nasra Ahmed, 23, photographed outside a relative’s apartment near Lower Afton Road in St. Paul on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, where she was forcibly detained by federal immigration agents on Wednesday, suffering cuts and bruises to her face and legs. She spent two days at the Sherburne County Jail before being released without charges on Friday night. She is a U.S. citizen, born in Minnesota, with no do ented criminal history. (Frederick Melo / Pioneer Press)She suddenly found herself in the middle of a group of ICE agents who had been chasing them, she said. The armed agents demanded to see her identification, and she complied.
The situation quickly escalated anyway, she said, with an agent calling her a racial slur and another telling her they were “making America great again.” In videos of the incident recorded by neighbors and circulating on social media, a dozen masked agents can be seen surrounding her, forcing her to the ground and then into a car.
A jail roster later listed her as 5-foot-4-inches and 112 pounds — an unlikely threat to a team of agents, at least in her own eyes.
“They used a lot of force to arrest me,” she said. “They pinned me. I have a bruise on my head. I’ve been having head pain since that incident. My whole body is aching. … I was crying. I was screaming.”
Two days in detention
Ahmed said her cellular phone was confiscated and has yet to be returned. She was driven by two agents — a Latina and the driver, a Caucasian man — to the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling, where she said she shared a detention cell with a woman who had suffered gashes to her legs that had bloodied her pants.
The woman, who was Native American, told Ahmed she had been forcibly removed from her car.
Ahmed was soon transferred to the Sherburne County jail in Elk River, which serves as a holding facility for ICE. A jail roster listed her as being held pending federal felony charges, but it provided no additional details.
Ahmed, a former Amazon warehouse employee, has been taking time away from working since suffering repeated medical episodes that include seizure-like symptoms. On Thursday, she said, she had another episode, which may have been stress-induced.
She was taken, shackled, to an Allina hospital, where she was given an MRI and held overnight under watch.
“The way they treated me during that episode while I was transported, I was cuffed from my hands to my legs. I was covered in chains,” she said. “They had a padlock on me. … While I was in the hospital, if I needed to go to the restroom or I needed to get up, they had chains on me like Hannibal Lecter, pretty much.”
she was returned Friday to the Sherburne County jail, and then moved back to the Whipple Building, where she was released around 7:45 p.m. Friday without charges
US citizens detained without cause were offered money and legal lenience to rat out others, released without charge, then teargassed
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...-rat-129185120And Sigüenza, who like his friend O'Keefe is a U.S. citizen, said an immigration officer who questioned him Sunday even offered him money or legal protection if he gave up the names of organizers or neighbors who are in the country illegally.
“At one point, the officer said in vague terms that it looks like I’m in trouble, and he could possibly help me out,” Sigüenza said, noting he refused the offer.
DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and the Border Patrol, didn’t immediately respond to a Tuesday request for comment.
Sigüenza and O’Keefe, who are among an unknown number of Twin Cities residents observing the immigration officers in action, were detained Sunday while following ICE officers who were driving around and making arrests. The officers stopped in front of O’Keefe's car, fired pepper spray through her windshield vent and smashed her car's windows even though the doors were unlocked, the two told The Associated Press.
According to O’Keefe, the agents mocked her looks and laughed at her. She said they also brought up the killing of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was shot in the head last week by an ICE officer in front of her wife.
O'Keefe said the officer who sprayed their car Sunday threatened them, saying that “obstructing” their work was how Good got killed.
“It was very clear that they were trying to just humiliate me, break me down,” O’Keefe said.
Sigüenza and O’Keefe said they were arrested and taken in separate unmarked SUVs to the highly restricted federal facility on the edge of Minneapolis that's serving as the crackdown's main hub. They were put in adjacent cells reserved for U.S. citizens, one for men and the other for women. Each cell was also being used for other detainees and was no larger than 10 feet by 10 feet (about 9 square meters), with a concrete bench, flat-screen TV, two-way mirror and surveillance camera.
On their way to the cells, they saw other detainees who were screaming and wailing for help, though most were dejectedly staring at the ground, they said. In one instance, they observed a woman who was trying to use a toilet while three male agents watched. The overwhelming majority of detainees were Hispanic men, though some were East African — Minnesota is home to the country's largest Somali community.
“Just hearing the visceral pain of the people in this center was awful,” O’Keefe said. “And then you juxtapose that with the laughter we heard from the actual agents. ... It was very surreal and kind of shocking.”
Sigüenza said one of his cellmates had a cut on his head and the other had an injured toe, but neither was offered medical help. Their requests for water or to go to the bathroom outside their cells were also ignored, he said.
O'Keefe and Sigüenza were able to speak with lawyers, but only Sigüenza allowed to make a phone call — he called his wife.
Sigüenza, who is Hispanic, said DHS investigators took him to another room and offered him money or legal protection for any family members who might be in the country illegally in exchange for giving up the names of protest organizers or neighbors who don’t have legal immigration status. But he said he refused the offer, noting that he doesn't have any family members without legal status.
Sigüenza and O’Keefe, who have shared their story widely on social media, were let go by evening without charges.
Once they left the facility, they were again hit with chemical agents officers were using on protesters in the area.
“We were not charged with a crime,” said Sigüenza. “We were released and then tear-gassed on our way out.”
private establishments locking the front door to keep their guests and employees safe from violent abduction, as one does in a free country
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-18-2026 at 10:05 PM.
in the true spirit of administrative detention, DHS has been informing legal counsel for US citizens that it "doesn't do attorney visitation"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-al...y?id=129335914
Attorneys say they have received a variety of explanations for why they cannot see their clients, including claims that they did not have appointments, that their clients did not ask for them by name, and that the Whipple building cannot accommodate attorney-client visits. None of those reasons is legally valid, according to the attorneys.
the pattern seems to be detaining US citizens for assault, then beating them up and humiliating them; then releasing them without any charges
The agents took Ms. Tincher to the Whipple Federal Building, where they removed her clothes and cut off her wedding ring before shackling her.
policing hospitals, separating families
https://sahanjournal.com/health/ice-...s-view-couple/
it's hardly surprising this Hmong-American is a US citizen too
“Minnesota is an odd choice for such a huge operation. It is a medium-size state — fewer than six million people — and its percentage of undo ented immigrant residents is less than half the national average, far lower than states like Texas, Florida..”
Every day, ST Trump s censor themselves from commenting on more and more subjects.
They know they're wrong.
it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants
something similar happened to Renee Good
which command should you obey, among nearly simultaneous commands?
https://bsky.app/profile/petrep.bsky.../3mcrpx5ylqk2rAt about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU ING MOVE I'LL ING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE ING CAR RIGHT NOW."
Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse?
Saint Paul schools are closed for two days because children and parents are not safe from abduction by violent federal goons
Purple Heart US veteran arbitrarily detained, denied access to legal counsel
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...e-47e2ebb6fd31“They did offer bathroom breaks and water breaks, and I did ask for a band-aid and they gave it to me,” Vermie said. “But I’d rather have a lawyer than a band-aid when I’m being detained.”
Attorney John Chitwood, who said he was hired by Vermie’s family, said he went to the Whipple Building and waited hours to speak with his client. Chitwood said he was told he could not meet with Vermie because Vermie had not requested him by name — something Vermie wouldn't have known since he did not get in contact with family.
“I have represented people accused of the most horrific crimes, and I have never encountered the type of stonewalling, deliberate stonewalling and delay, that I experienced in trying to see Will,” Chitwood said.
12% of Trump voters supported abolishing ICE in this poll
15% of Harris voters opposed abolishing ICE in this poll12% of Trump voters supported abolishing ICE in this poll
y'all are losing on this one big time
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