DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are “Vicious, Horrible People”
215 days before Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good dead after Good’s wife, Becca, engaged in First Amendment protected taunting of Ross, HSI Special Agent Ryan Ribner rushed through a gate at at a Los Angeles garment factory and — along with ICE Officer Carey Crook — assaulted SEIU CA President David Huerta, targeting Huerta rather than several other people who were more directly blocking a van, the purported crime in question.
Huerta argued in a motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds submitted last week, days before Good’s killing, that Ribner and Crook did not arrest Huerta for obstructing a Federal officer, which is what got charged after DOJ abandoned a claim that Huerta had conspired to impede officers, much less the assault that they contemplated charging initially, but because Huerta had engaged in that First Amendment protected taunting.
It may well be that Ribner lied when he claimed he didn’t learn Huerta was a powerful union leader until after he assaulted him. Months later, the undercover officer working the crowd, Jeremy Crossen, admitted people in the crowd referred to Huerta as a union “member,” though that didn’t appear in either the texts that got shared with Huerta in discovery — which described the institutional affiliation of others — or a countersurveillance report he wrote weeks after the assault, where he included the research he had done after the fact for everyone but the state president of one of the most powerful unions in the country, the guy who got assaulted.
But if Huerta wasn’t targeted because he’s a powerful Democrat (in Ribner’s report there’s a weird claim that the agent guarding Huerta in the hospital only “feigned” interest when Mayor Karen Bass showed up to Huerta’s hospital room), then the record shows little else beyond speech.
According to videos turned over in discovery, Ribner started predicting Huerta would go to jail based solely off taunting, mostly about their masks.
Mr. Huerta asked them, “How are you keeping us safe?” Agent Ribner’s response was: “You are gonna go to jail. You are not impeding us. You are not impeding us. You’re going to jail, [unintelligible from 0:00:09–00:11] and you’re going to jail.” Id. at 0:00:01–00:12. Mr. Huerta then repeatedly asked him, “What are you doing?” and told him, “I can’t hear you through your fuckin’ mask,” and pointed at Agent Ribner. Id. at 0:00:14–00:17. Agent Ribner can be heard replying: “You’re gonna go to jail, you’re going to jail.” Id. at 0:00:17. For the next few minutes, Mr. Huerta continued to protest in front of the gate, including conversing with Agent Ribner, Officer Crook, and other officers, including, according to agents’ after-the-fact reports, “aggressively”4 asking the officers to identify themselves, stating “What are you going to do… Where’s your fucking badge number… What’s your fucking name?” Ex. B at 9. He also allegedly stated: “You’re not police! You’re not fucking police! You’re not keeping me safe!”
Indeed, Ribner’s own report describes himself predicting that Huerta and others would obstruct them, so he instructed his colleagues to be prepared to make arrests.
Later, HUERTA approached the gate and began yelling and about wanting to see agents’ faces. At times HUERTA was putting his arms through the fence as he yelled, and on at least one occasion he pointed as well. HUERTA stated, “Your boss” [believed to be referring to President Trump] wants things “made in America”. HUERTA went on and said that the things were manufactured inside of Ambiance. HUERTA appeared to be aggressive and angry by his voice, demeanor, and facial features. At some point HUERTA walked up to the gate and asked either about the purpose or legit impact of agents’ duties. SSA Ribner asked HUERTA the purpose of what he was doing [regarding being belligerent with law enforcement]. HUERTA made a comment that he lived in the community and /or cared about the community. SSA Ribner advised HUERTA that “we” [agents] also live in the community. SSA Ribner made the comment to HUERTA in the hopes of obtaining HUERTA’s compliance by advising HUERTA that law enforcement agents are just like him and care about the community and are also part of the demographic of the southern California area.
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STRONG, and LENEHAN would highly likely block or impede law enforcement vehicles, cause damage to USG property, or commit a battery against agents as they attempt to depart. SSA Ribner informed the DEA agents that if anyone in the crowd impedes, blocks, or physically batters an agent that arrests would be made. [my emphasis]
“He pointed as well”!!! And from that (and perhaps in his view that Huerta was Hispanic? — though several other people present looked more obviously Hispanic), Ribner concluded Huerta was aggressive.
Even though a vehicle had already entered the gate Ribner stood behind without major obstruction, Ribner predicted that a white detainee van that pulled up shortly after the conflict with Huerta occurred, while the gate was still closed, would incite some response. Huerta was on the public sidewalk in front of the gate, though several other people were more directly in front of the van’s path. But when the gate did open, at which point Huerta was to the side of the van, Crook and Ribner rushed Huerta and pushed him down.
That’s when Ribner conducted a brutal arrest, even applying pepper spray to his hand and smothering Huerta’s face with it, because — he claimed after Huerta sought hospital treatment for a head injury — Ribner did not want Huerta to hit his head on the curb he was driving it into.
SSA Ribner decided to deploy a chemical agent (pepper spray) on HUERTA due to HUERTA actively resisting arrest, the angered crowd, and HUERTA’s safety as his head was near a cement curb and SSA Ribner didn’t want him suffering an injury. Due to the concern of over spraying the chemical agent with others nearby (SDDO C and the crowd) or spraying HUERTA directly in the eyes, SSA Ribner decided to spray a small amount of the chemical agent in his hand and place his hand near the upper nose area of HUERTA’s face. HUERTA began to make noises and say that he couldn’t breathe.
Huerta’s head got slammed, and Huerta sought immediate hospital care. In his arrest report — again, written after he learned Huerta had a head injury — Ribner describes feeling no lump on Huerta’s head but said he did so to help Huerta to clean the pepper spray that Ribner’s post hoc reports claim he specifically avoided getting in his eyes out of Huerta’s eyes.
Agent’s Note: During the arrest encounter SSA Ribner never personally observed HUERTA strike his head on the ground. Additionally, when SSA Ribner was decontaminating HUERTA, he placed his hands on the back of HUERTA’s head to help move his head back to place water in his eyes and face area. SSA Ribner never felt any bumps or cuts on the back of HUERTA’s head. Additionally, SSA Ribner didn’t observe any physical bumps or cuts on HUERTA’s head.
As so often has happened after DHS assaults and hurts someone, that night make-believe US Attorney Bill Essayli accused Huerta of assault.
And sometime later, Ribner was in a meeting with Todd Blanche, and Essayli promised Blanche this would go to trial in September or October.
GS Ribner stated he spoke with United States Attorney Bill Essayli about this case and others, such as the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) and Special Agent in Charge Eddie Wang. During the briefing, USA Essayli told the DAG that “this case is going to trial in September or October
It did not go to trial in September or October. Instead, as AUSAs learned more about what happened, they gave up the felony charge.
As you can tell from Ribner’s attempt to build in deniability for the head injury, Ribner obviously tried to reverse-engineer his actions, to provide some excuse for the assault.
As I noted at the time, when Ribner wrote the arrest affidavit back in June, he absurdly claimed that Huerta intimidated him because he banged on the gate.
“Banged on a gate” and “pointed as well”!?!?! No wonder they asked to detain Huerta pretrial.
Ribner’s initial arrest report (the same report where he denied knowledge of a head injury, which he wrote almost two weeks after the arrest) is full of things — including some alleged assaults by protesters, but also including exchanges like the local San Diegans who, days before the Huerta assault, shouted “shame” until ICE abandoned their effort to raid a local restaurant — that Ribner cited to explain why he implanted an undercover agent at the scene to seek out a vast conspiracy Ribner was sure existed.
Mostly, though, I suspect it was the shame.
Huerta was lucky. Because he’s an American citizen, he couldn’t be shunted off to a GEO prison and refused access to his attorneys, which is what make-believe US Attorney Essayli did to prevent Carlitos Ricardo Parias from unpacking the problems with the claims of assault against him. Because — unlike Renee Good — Huerta survived, DOJ had to try to invent a criminal case out of Ribner’s own actions.
But, it appears that by August, after several delays in attempting to indict Huerta, the whole charade started falling apart. Ribner’s report (which, on top of the obvious retconning of his actions, did not match the documented timeline in a few other areas) and the absence of any crime was bad enough. But the witness stories didn’t match, even though there’s good reason to believe they were coordinated after the fact. In addition to claiming he noticed Huerta arrive in real time rather than after Ribner called him out, Crossen described Huerta push back, something not captured in video (and which Crossen may not have been able to see from where he stood). Carey Crook (the guy who first pushed Huerta), falsely claimed Huerta had splayed himself across the van in an X, and similarly invented a claim that Ribner had sprayed Huerta, rather than smother his face in pepper spray. The driver of the van, Brian Gonzales, didn’t remember seeing Huerta in a first interview, but in a follow-up the day before he would start a new permanent job at CBP, he did, though he disputed Crook’s claim that Huerta had splayed across the van grill.
Crossen explained that his video didn’t capture Huerta in front of the van because he started filming just after that. He said he did all this on his personal phone because his government phone wasn’t working that day (in addition to the motion to dismiss, Huerta is also demanding the Cellebrite metadata for the texts extracted from the personal phones both Ribner and Crossen used that day). He admitted that Ribner gave instructions on how to write up his countersurveillance report, but didn’t tell him what to say.
Ribner’s was the last interview from this period when DOJ was stalling the case, a week before a new case opening date possibly focused on Ribner. When asked to describe his actions, as problems with the arrest must have become evident, Ribner explained simply that the peaceful protesters were “vicious, horrible people.”
GS Ribner stated HUERTA and other protesters are “vicious, horrible people”.[In reference to a still photo of video 2774 at 0:03], GS Ribner identified HUERTA. He recalled telling HUERTA, “You better not block the cars”. He stated that HUERTA was not in the way of vehicles or personnel at this point.
Stephen Miller has told all Trump supporters, especially those who work at DHS, that people who support immigration are vicious, horrible people. And he gave them rules of engagement that invited assaults like this, assaults they simply bury in often-failed attempts to criminalize the victim.
It’s surprising it took seven months before someone Stephen Miller has defined as a vicious horrible person got killed.
Timeline
June 6: Arrest
9:00 AM: HSI task force officer (and Inglewood cop) Jeremy Crossen arrives under cover
9:20: Agents start executing search
9:57: Crossen interacts with Asian woman
10:26: Crossen interacts w/Hispanic protestor, claims he is monitoring the police
10:33: Crossen texts Ribner
11:07: Crossen sees pick-up without plates whose Hispanic driver films
11:19: Crossen describes a Hispanic woman with a neck gaiter; his report provides background on a Kids of Immigrants sweatshirt she wears; start time of alleged criminal conduct
11:25: A sedan enters the gate; after an agent instructs those filming it to step away, they do; Crossen texts Ribner,
11:31: A Hispanic woman whom Crossen IDs by name shows up, makes phone calls
11:36: Crossen describes a white woman by name, describes that she masked as the crowd grew
11:37: Crossen describes the Hispanic leader of ACCE Action, Council Member Jose Delgado, show up, make calls
11:49: Crossen claims he sees Huerta walk up
11:51: A white woman from Tenants Union starts yelling obscenities
11:53: Ribner instructs Crossen to focus on Huerta
11:54: Huerta and others sit in front of the gate
12:01 PM: Ribner leaves the property and assaults Huerta [note his report timeline goes haywire in here]
12:00-12:09: Crossen texts Ribner
12:15: Crossen claims van arrives (his description describe others who were in front of the van, then says Huerta also was)
12:15: Ribner calls 911 (claiming this is about pepper spray)
12:18: Crossen describes a scrimmage line
12:20-12:40: Discussions about Huerta’s attempt to call his attorney
12:30: LAFD responds; Huerta asks to be brought to the hospital; Crossen describes LAFD arrival this way:
At approximately 12:28 p.m., TFO Crossen observed a Los Angeles City Fire truck with activated emergency lights and loud audible siren, attempting to gain entry to the business, still being blocked by protestors, to render aid for HUERTA, inside the business, who had been exposed to OC Spray, during his arrest.
12:40: Ribner reports arrest to CACD US Attorney office
12:42: Ribner tells Crossen his personal phone is out of battery, asks him to use his government one
12:47: Ribner admits he used pepper spray
1:05: Ribner speaks to USAO again
1:30: Huerta taken to hospital w/agent in car
2:45: Ribner asks Crossen for pictures of Huerta
Unmarked time: Mayor Bass shows up to hospital room; they ask her to leave (and she does)
9:12: Crossen sends last clip from videos to Ribner (the discovery turned over provides nowhere near the “4 hours” or “100 videos” that Crossen told Ribner, five hours earlier, that he had taken (though the defense did not include all the texts in their exhibit)
9:36: Ribner obtains warrant for Huerta’s phone
10:30: Huerta attorney turns over the phone
June 8: Huerta charged with felony conspiracy
June 9: Case opened
June 17: Date created for one photo provided in discovery
June 19: Initial incident report; Ribner would later (in his September 10 interview) admit he wrote the report from memory and simply did not “recall that he told HUERTA, ‘You are not impeding’. He does not know why he did not include that statement in his report and agrees that his statement could sound exculpatory.”
June 23: Countersurveillance report from Crossen
July 2: Second set of discovery
July 17: Third set of discovery
July 28: Fourth set of discovery (including agent texts)
August 20: USAO interviews Brian Gonzalez, who drove the van allegedly blocked
August 27: USAO interviews Carey Crook; he told AUSAs that, contrary to Ribner’s claim, Huerta did not assault him
August 27: USAO interviews Crossen
September 9: USAO reinterviews Gonzalez; he says he does not remember Huerta straddling the van, as Crooks claimed
September 10: USAO interviews Ribner
September 11: Gonzalez starts at a new job at CBP
September 17: Later case opening date, possibly focusing on the lying agents
October 17: Huerta charged with misdemeanor
November 5: Huerta’s attorneys ask AUSA to identify the obstructive conduct
December 19: AUSA finally provides vague description of conduct
Iron gates are very sensitive and banging on them can hurt their feelings. After all, isn’t the job of the goon squads to project and swerve?
When are the Dems going to start campaigning on a platform of top to bottom genuine accountability for these goons?
ICE is about to rapidly expand, presumably by hiring every failed mall cop who likes playing Call of Duty in his mom’s basement.Making Miller, Bondi, Bovino and every grunt down the chain realize that they are risking real jail time could save a lot of lives between now and January 2029.
Back in June, 75 Democrats (including my own useless back bencher) voted for a resolution praising ICE.
They will still be arguing that affordability is the ticket as they’re led off to the camps.
https://omar.house.gov/media/in-the-news/75-democrats-vote-praise-ice-ilhan-omar-wants-hold-police-accountable-protest
Did you read the bill? It was positioned as a response to antisemitism. I’m not certain how these Dems would get out from under the counterpoint that they support antisemitism when the media does dick-all to point out to the public how much of this is bullshit.
Johnathan Cohn excerpts J Street’s response to the vote:
Source: https://jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-resolutions-75-dems-join-gop-in-resolution-praising-trumps-mass-deportation-regime-15cf590770ea
The least we can do is not fucking amplify the right-wing frame. -__-
I would prefer my electeds to not defensively crouch while being slimed, and to show leadership by speaking out forcefully and repeatedly. Regarding anti-Semitism, a good start would be for them to point out in their public statements that the miscreant who firebombed the synagogue in Mississippi appear to be a Christian extremist, not a Mamdani supporter.
How many will actually do that?
Prosecutors said he could face five to 20 years in prison if convicted. When the judge read him his rights, Pittman said, “Jesus Christ is Lord.”
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-synagogue-arson-jewish-south-0e489adc986bfaddd55662075bdb6443
“…to point out in their public statements…”
You’ve been here long enough to know how the media works. Which gets picked up: how Congressional Dems vote or their public statements? That’s the problem not being solved or the GOP wouldn’t attempt to corner Democrats as they did with this bullshit bill.
Masked ICE goon Ross shoots and kills victim and is allowed to flee the scene (which show consciousness of guilt.) Not taken to hospital for blood and urine test. Not segregated from his fellow goons and interviewed by independent investigator. (Just last year a masked fake cop murdered MN legislator and spouse.)
Evidence at scene not secured by state or local authorities-likely destroyed by now. Statements from other ICE goons not taken-apparently.
Apparently no protocols for handling shootings by ICE.
Other than hand-wringing, state and local Democratic politicians do nothing. State and local cops do nothing.
Is someone in power with a functioning brain gonna step up and do something?
Have you seen any reporting offering a timeline of events?
Have you considered the attack on MN re childcare fraud was intended to prevent certain state and local law enforcement responses?
I have not seen any reporting about a timeline.
I’m sure the childcare fraud claims are meant to make MN governor and other officials look sleazy, but as with all things Trump its projection, projection, projection.
I just can’t get past the masked gunmen who we are supposed to assume are federal agents. Really? Does anyone verify they are legitimate federal agents?
Judge William Young, one of the most respected federal judges ever (Reagan appointee) made the point: “ICE goes masked for a single reason-to terrorize Americans into quiescence.” “It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily war masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor-and honor still matters.”
See, American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, (D. Mass. 2025)
The fraud messaging is also meant to be used to tarnish and target immigrants.
Claims of widespread fraud by Somali immigrants led to the increased ICE presence in Minnesota.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says
Am I mistaken in thinking that there was another woman in the car with Mrs. Good, her wife, and a dog! She would have been blood-spattered and traumatized. Has anybody talked too her, or is she in hiding? My God, what a country!
Ms. Good’s wife was out of the car and recording Ross as he recorded the license plate on their car. Becca was walking to the car and had just put a hand on the door handle when the ICE thug at the driver door started trying to open that door to get at Nicole. That’s when Nicole turned the wheel and started to drive away. Becca wasn’t in the car. But witnessed ICE murder her wife.
It also appeared that Becca was very close to, or even in the line of fire for an errant bullet. So was the other ICEstapo agent who was trying to break into the vehicle.
Those were two more lives that Mr. Ross put in danger.
The FBI was initially saying they were going to cooperate with Minnesota BCA to investigate. They took the vehicle and all the physical evidence. Then they said they were no longer going to cooperate in any investigation and Minnesota lacks jurisdiction. Does it become clearer for you now?
For the record, Senators Smith and Klobuchar have demanded that evidence be shared with the state. The Trump regime has responded with the middle finger and are sending more ICE agents here. Now is it clear what’s going on?
There are now more than 3000 federal immigration agents here. The Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments number about 1000 combined, including desk jockeys. What actions would you suggest they take in the face of a federal government that doesn’t give a fig for our state laws?
I am watching an outlet called “status coup news.” They have video that I believe is showing actual current events. The video depicts peaceful people being attacked by masked agents using some type of spray (chemical) on people peacefully gathered on a public street.
Why are there no local or state police on hand to protect these people from these attacks?
I think there are two reasons:
1. The police, including the state police, are outnumbered by federal immigration agents at this time; and
2. They are trying to avoid an armed confrontation between local authorities and the feds.
Mayor Frey and Governor Walz both said as much the other day.
I’m quite aware it’s worthless to point this out, but Republicans used to care about that shit, you know the feds coming in hijacking state policy.
Kind of ironic, isn’t it, that the 2A – Don’t Tread on Me bros are the ones carrying out the Federal invasion of cities.
It sounds like their training is intended to produce a killing force, not an enforcement-as-needed force.
That’s not what ICE and CBP should be. Who made that decision, and why?
“Who made that decision, and why?”
Stephen Miller, and because he’s a psychopath?
Just guessing here…
‘It sounds like their training is intended to produce a killing force, not an enforcement-as-needed force’
They’re being bloodied now and throughout the rest of the year to prepare them for larger “mobs” that will result from Trump declaring martial law.
Well, my $$ is on Miller in cahoots with Puppy killer.
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Are they masked now because on Jan 6 they were unmasked when in the Capitol, and once pardoned, hired into ICE? It could be. It needs attention and belief to the point it is either proven true or false. In effect, is ICE/Miller/Noem hiring Jan 6 convicted then pardoned individuals?
A Bedtime Story?
What time is it in Moscow when these middle-of-the-night truth social media posts come out?
Would it be possible that our donald (melania the translator by his side) and Vlad have been talking, Moscow time, and Vlad is coaching our donald on how to do putin-style “government”?
i know, a complete fantasy.
US Attorneys don’t often meet with the Deputy AG: there are layers between them. And since when does a line officer for an armed federal agency meet with the DAG about a single case, one in which the officer is a witness?
I just read a Fox News article on Yahoo with the headline Crowd-For-Hire Boss Rejects Minneapolis Unrest as Illegal Chaos that was about a guy they describe as the “CEO of a national protest-organizing firm” called Crowds on Demand. I looked them up and Wikipedia exposes that he works with rightwing groups to generate fake crowds for their side; like a fake BLM group that got national attention for a stunt they pulled that made BLM look racist against white people. Ie, he does False Flag propaganda to make the left look bad.
He said the protests there are bad because protesters are blocking roads and interfering with investigations, which he says his company would never get involved in. And he said the protests will backfire because the Trump Admin will only send in more ICE agents and won’t back down; which seems incredibly odd for a protest guy to say but expected from a rightie. He also said he’s offered Minneapolis officials “the opportunity to run legal campaigns” but they refused due to “fear and intimidation”; ie, they don’t want his phony resistance campaigns to control the opposition.
But the comments section missed all that. It was full of MAGA who obviously just read the headline and went straight to the comments, assuming that this guy’s company is doing the anti-ICE protests and demanding that they be held accountable for all the violence including fines and jail. They “know” that nobody could disagree with Trump so it MUST be that these people are all paid agitators and therefore deserve punishment.
And it never occurred to them that this guy is on their side because they’re the ones who manufacture protests; not us. It was a Fox News article promoting this guy because he says what they want to hear; yet to MAGA it just confirmed that these protests are fake and the protesters deserve to be punished. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Wasn’t Crowds for Hire the contractor who supplied the cheering throng for Trump’s escalator ride in 2015?
Who is coaching these guys on how to write their reports? Ribner’s delay for ret-conning appears to have included either a brief creative writing course or help from a real writer. The passage that struck me comes after the felonious pointing: “HUERTA appeared to be aggressive and angry by his voice, demeanor, and facial features.”
I taught fiction writing for 25 years. Ribner’s attempt to win over his (very likely skeptical!) future audience reminds me of those beginners’ stabs I used to see the second week of a semester. It seems someone told him it would be more convincing if he “added some description.” That someone should have checked his work.
If Ribner truly does determine people’s attitudes and intentions from their “facial features,” then we are back in the era of phrenology. I can only hope his actual future audience sees through this garbage.
I think Ribner meant facial EXPRESSIONS, not facial FEATURES.
@isibb.bsky.social 21h
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn’t merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
https://bsky.app/profile/isibb.bsky.social/post/3mc6suh73fc2t
Over the weekend, I had dinner with a young lady who is an attorney for DHS’s Human Resource area (I won’t say where) and she said it has been a sh*tshow since Trump took office in Jan. of 2025. Hundreds of people coming in and dozens going out every day – training is incomplete or inconsistent, people are quitting as soon as they get their sign-on bonus and not paying them back. Hundreds of lawsuits and more coming in every day. It has been a catastrophe and she said they are burning through money like it is water. Not a sustainable situation, she opined….She is looking for a new job.
If only we had some type of agency run by a billionaire and staffed full of young hackers and data miners to search for “waste, fraud, and abuse”.
That might fix it. /s
That middle age guy with no mask and a buzz cut with a little more hair on top–I’ve seen him in other Mpls videos.
They are purposely running into vehicles, spraying people in the face with paper spray at point blank range, dragging people out of cars and brutalizing them, physically attacking protesters and then charging the protesters with attacking them (the list goes on).
It doesn’t appear that they are going to stop, either.
Following people and claiming they were being blocked/harassed. Brake-checking people.
And cops are helping them, in at least some areas.
Cops are helping….What I have tried to convey to my local liberal city council members is to act now and rid our community of our police force within reason of course. Crime is non-existent, yet they grow no spine, even when they have the power to decapitate the entity that will show no mercy after our next election.
12:00-12:09 Crossen texts Ribner
“Every now and then I have to film you guys and not crowd to sell it
Lot of whites”
What is this? Were they given direction that they need propaganda? Were they told the propaganda needs to involve brown people, or they just instinctively know from experience how the propaganda works? And who specifically are they selling to?
Late 1920’s Germany: the SA going around beating up anyone to whom they take a dislike, while the police stand around passively and do nothing to prevent the organised lawlessness. And at that point in time, the SA weren’t even an arm of government. But that failure to act in defence of the law was the prelude to far worse to come.
The US has a framework of rights that is now being systematically flouted by ICE, and courts are regularly seeing clear evidence of wrongful arrests and fictitious explanations, yet no-one is apparently being held accountable for it by local law enforcement. I can understand that no-one wants to see an armed standoff between ICE and local police (unlikely as that may ever be), and OFC the latter can’t readily arrive at whatever time and place ICE chooses to pop-up next to stir up more trouble, but surely at the very least, someone in local law enforcement could and should be ready “waiting in the wings” after every court performance of shameless invention, and arrest some of these serial perjurers?
(A touch of Trump-in-reverse, so even if it doesn’t get anywhere too soon, the theatre of it is the purpose: the mere sight of ICE goons being arrested and taken away by local police would have a salutary effect, both on the goons themselves and on the general public.)
The historical parallels are plenty between the Weimar and where we are now. The options for staving off the inevitability of Trump without “the blood of Patriots to nourish the tree of Liberty” seems gone, unless the Senate arrives at removal numbers. What are the odds of that happening?
Kevin Roberts spoke the truth about this coup being bloodless if the left acquiesced. What I know is that Dobbs was coming, as his acolytes, when he was President of Wyoming Catholic College told me so.
As President of Heritage, he was briefed on the plan and spoke a truth.
As a Minnesota native who has spent more than half my life in ND (within a mile of the border) I haven’t been able to get much done in the past week but watch the onslaught. ICE went out to reservation land in NW Minnesota today, and to a small town where the turkey processing plant broke the union decades ago, replacing them with Somali and Sudanese immigrants–these folks have lived there for 20 years now. I read the federal complaint filed by the state today and recognize several of the incidents mentioned from videos r/minnesota has been posting. Many are wrenching. As for road safety, ICE has dragged people out and abandoned their vehicles, including one vehicle left running, in neutral, on a busy thoroughfare, which then rolled into other vehicles. One person posted a video of a car on the side of a road, key in ignition, car in neutral, seat belt cut. There are also reports agents have been seen driving cars belonging to people they have detained. There’s a video of an ICE vehicle on a busy 4 lane street. A car is waiting for the light to turn from red to green; ICE just rams that car into the intersection. The person recording vollows ICE, which does not pursue the vehicle it rammed, so I guess they weren’t a target but got away from the aggressor as quickly as they could.
Later this week my son and I are driving to Mpls then on to Rochester where he has appts at Mayo. I’m nervous about this. We wouldn’t be targets but I can’t be 100% we could not end up in the middle of something going on–I’ve always found Rochester to be a really hard town to learn your way around in.
I do hope they are able to get an injunction. The likelihood of irrevocable harm–well, that’s already happened.
There’s a video of a 17 yo Hispanic kid being hauled away from Target, where he works, yelling he is a US citizen. There’s a second video of the same kid. They drove for 8 minutes, so a few miles away, and dumped him–bloody–in front of a Walmart where exiting shoppers saw that. One guy (who I think is taking the video) says “you’re ok” and the boy, sobbing uncontrollably, says “I’m not okay.” The guy says “there has to be someone we can call”–he asks the kid about family, but really, this is the experience of people who realize there is nobody who can step forward right now and make this better where they are at.
As I watched the news regarding the killing of Ms. Good and all the violence around this event and some others., it struck me, that I had been seeing this for a very long time. what is going on currently is no different than what went on in the 1950, 60s during the Civil Rights protests. As a kid I could not figure out why it was happening,
Protestors were beaten, had dogs attack them, people were murdered all by the “good citizens and police types”.
I recall the protests against the Vietnam war and the killings at Kent State. I remember my Mom waking me up and watch the 11 p.m. news (we lived in Vancouver, B.C.) It was the Watts riots. These days we see ICE and is support teams inflicting violence and death on people. The American government has a history of this sort of thing, killing, beating citizens and residents of the country.
My sense is this is not going to be stopping for some time.
Its shocking to see Noem call Ms. Good a terrorist and other nasty names. Ms. Good has children, family. It is not good manners to say these sorts of things about the dead. Its not going to win her any points with many, except of course Miller and Trump and Heggi.
Here in B.C. we have had violent confrontations, Vancouver and its hockey riots, but no one was killed. The VPD and Fire Dept. did their jobs. We’ve had the War of the Woods when protestors set up camp and prevented logging, building of pipelines. The RCMP dealt with those incidents but I don’t recall people being killed.
It is beyond me why that man shot and killed Ms. Good. People were just exercising their rights.
trumps threat to inflict damage on Iran because of the killings of protestors, just cracked me up. guess Iran can return the favour in the U.S.A. given the Republicans and the Mullahs are about the same with how they treat their citizens.
I would certainly agree a lack of training for ICE and others is contributing to the violence. Its like those officers lack self control.
trump and miller have continued a tradition of attacking and murdering American citizens; they had the military kidnap the Pres. of Venezuela and invaded it, they are threatening Iran with violence and Cuba and Greenland. If the government spent that type of money on social programs instead of inflicting violence on its citizens things would be a lot better. In the meantime Trump might want to consider stopping the flapping of his gums about other countries. He isn’t any better. He is actually worse.
Sooner than later these goons are going to provoke an armed response. My fear is that it will be a brown person, possibly an immigrant, who was deluded by the NRA into believing that the 2nd amendment , castle doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws apply equally to them, triggering the Insurrection Act.
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf
It speaks for itself, 80p, multiple defendants, basically intended to halt ICE in Mpls, and I say that while yet to read it. I figured it might be of interest and haste in posting seemed sound.
The AG complaint paragraph 105 references Tincher v Noem, seeking class action jury trial for private citizens’ denial of civil rights with ACLU involvement. Key court filings are online: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047643/tincher-v-noem/
Also filed in Minnesota District .