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🦄 Police

Paid Informant and Social Media Posts Lead to ‘Turtle Island Liberation Front’ Arrests

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

Through an informant, at least one undercover agent, and online and physical surveillance the FBI tracked the group before intervening in what it calls a conspiracy.

🦄 Prison

Philip Vance’s Postconviction Filing Kicked Back by Prosecutors to Wait For CRU Report

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

Philip Vance is serving a life sentence for a 2002 murder in South St. Paul during a robbery of Sabreen’s Supermarket, but his supporters have long believed this was a false charge after hearing Vance’s pleas of innocence. After waiting more than three years since…

🦄 Prison

Done Waiting on CRU, Philip Vance Readies to File Legal Petition for Wrongful Conviction

February 26, 2025August 15, 2025

MCF-Rush City, MN — Serving a life sentence for a deadly robbery in South St. Paul in 2002, Philip Vance has always insisted he is innocent. Since his conviction, he’s been exhausting all legal options to get another chance in court to prove he’s been…

🦄 Police, Prison

Community Demands Exoneration for Philip Vance on 22nd Anniversary of Murder

January 8, 2025January 27, 2025

South Saint Paul, MN — “I just want the world to know that I am innocent,” said Philip Vance from a prison phone. Volunteers with the Free Philip Vance team braved frigid temperatures to hold a press conference on the 22nd anniversary of the robbery-turned-murder…

🦄 Police, Prison

Questions Surround FBI Informant Charged With Stabbing Convicted Cop Derek Chauvin

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

Tucson, AZ — Federal inmate and former FBI informant, John Turscak, was charged last week with attempted murder by federal prosecutors for the Black Friday stabbing incident of fellow prisoner Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted for the 2020 murder of…

🦄 DAPL, Police, Prison, Protest & Direct Action

DAPL Saboteur Ruby Montoya Sentenced to 6 Years in Federal Prison

September 26, 2022July 18, 2023

Des Moines, IA – Ruby Montoya, admitted Dakota Access Pipeline saboteur, stepped out of a car Wednesday morning in front of the federal courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, and walked quietly into the building. Her dark hair was pulled back into a low bun and…

🦄 Investigative

Icebreaker Pt 11 – Bush/Clinton Era Customs Investigators Manuals

February 13, 2020April 21, 2025

United States – Unicorn Riot obtained more than two dozen Homeland Security policy manuals including several from the 1980s and 1990s – 195 pages in all. This is the last release in our Icebreaker series.
While some of these documents have appeared elsewhere in various…


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