State and Local Police Make Mass Arrest Again at Fourth Graduate Noise Demo
A mixture of state and local police arrested at least a dozen protesters on Thursday night after a noise demo outside of the Graduate Hotel in Minneapolis.
A mixture of state and local police arrested at least a dozen protesters on Thursday night after a noise demo outside of the Graduate Hotel in Minneapolis.
Operation Metro Surge has entered its 66th day, representing more than two months of continuous incursion into the Twin Cities and the state as a whole by aggressive, anonymous, and largely unaccountable federal agents.
A medley of state and local police officers arrested nearly 70 protesters after the third noise demo at the Graduate Hotel for hosting ICE agents.
A week after arresting three activists over protesting an ICE director who pastors in a church, federal agents made five additional arrests, this time targeting two journalists who covered the protest -- Georgia Fort and Don Lemon -- and three other participants.
Three activists in the Twin Cities were arrested by federal agents for protesting a church where the leader of the local ICE office is also a pastor.
Right-wing influencers are drawing tenuous parallels between the usernames found in Minneapolis neighborhood Signal groups and claiming they are the handles of public figures involved in an insurrectionist conspiracy enveloping Minnesota.
Operation Metro Surge continues to weigh on Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota as a whole. The federal government has increasingly targeted the state government and local leaders who have engaged in widespread and organized resistance to ICE’s campaign in the region.
Resistance has continued, and…
A noise demo at a hotel suspected of housing ICE was interrupted by federal agents, who filled the street with tear gas and threatened arrests while escorting masked people out the back.