Another ICE Shooting in Minnesota

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Normal people would deescalate but of course we’re stuck with crazy podcasters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Normal people would deescalate but of course we’re stuck with crazy podcasters

So comforting to know that insane podcasters and YouTubers are running the US government.

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Also, ICE is using LRADs (long range acoustic devices) -- which is illegal in the US -- on protestors.

https://imgur.com/gallery/appears-that-ice-is-currently-attacking-peaceful-protesters-minneapolis-by-deploying-lrad-long-range-acoustic-device-weapons-close-range-2naUKg0

A few posters in comments are talking about how to mitigate them or reflect the signal back. They need to reverse thick plastic shields to orient the concave surfaces back at ICE agents. This video was linked, which does some research and demonstrations:

PS: They found that using a riot shield plus shop headphones when an LRAD is being aimed at you means you get close enough to touch the LRAD itself, even at max setting of emitting 153 decibels at one meter, without significant discomfort. The reversed riot shield (starts at about 15:00 of 17:55) concentrates the reflection a lot and is very easy to aim. Avoid noise-cancelling electronic headphones, as there was intolerable feedback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Also, ICE is using LRADs (long range acoustic devices) -- which is illegal in the US -- on protestors.

https://imgur.com/gallery/appears-that-ice-is-currently-attacking-peaceful-protesters-minneapolis-by-deploying-lrad-long-range-acoustic-device-weapons-close-range-2naUKg0

A few posters in comments are talking about how to mitigate them or reflect the signal back. They need to reverse thick plastic shields to orient the concave surfaces back at ICE agents. This video was linked, which does some research and demonstrations:

PS: They found that using a riot shield plus shop headphones when an LRAD is being aimed at you means you get close enough to touch the LRAD itself, even at max setting of emitting 153 decibels at one meter, without significant discomfort. The reversed riot shield (starts at about 15:00 of 17:55) concentrates the reflection a lot and is very easy to aim. Avoid noise-cancelling electronic headphones, as there was intolerable feedback.

Someone should have told Eleven

[Anonymous]

Welp, now we know.

The cities are training centers, indeed, but not for ICE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Normal people would deescalate but of course we’re stuck with crazy podcasters

So comforting to know that insane podcasters and YouTubers are running the US government.

This is turtles all the way down. “Crazy RWNJ podcaster who is now somehow the FBI Director appears on crazy RWNJ podcast to announce investigation based on crap from another crazy RWNJ podcast.”

[Anonymous]

Pink jacket lady revealed

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Anonymous wrote:Pink jacket lady revealed

Everyone wants their 5 minutes of fame. In a few days she will be completely irrelevant ( if she isn’t already)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN headline that he Alex Pretti had a physical confrontation/altercation with ICE officers the week prior to shooting and broke a rib. It’s behind a paywall.

That doesn't matter.

Alex Pretti doesn't matter in general. But it was an interesting fact. As well that he was an lgbtq.

Where did you get the information that Pretti was LGBTQ?

Please provide a citation. He has an ex wife; are all divorced men LGBTQ who just finally got around to giving up their beards? Or are you making assumptions because Pretti was clearly an LGBTQ ally? Newsflash there are tens of millions of heterosexual Americans who are LGBTQ allies.

Provide your sources thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Welp, now we know.

The cities are training centers, indeed, but not for ICE.

?

Just me maybe? Did I miss a new story?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pink jacket lady revealed

Everyone wants their 5 minutes of fame. In a few days she will be completely irrelevant ( if she isn’t already)

I’m pretty sure she would much, much rather not be “famous” for having witnessed a murder. It takes incredible courage to speak up in an atmosphere where witnesses are being targeted, harassed, beaten up, and arrested.

Your cynical assumption reveals a lot about your own mindset and what motivates you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Normal people would deescalate but of course we’re stuck with crazy podcasters

So comforting to know that insane podcasters and YouTubers are running the US government.

This is turtles all the way down. “Crazy RWNJ podcaster who is now somehow the FBI Director appears on crazy RWNJ podcast to announce investigation based on crap from another crazy RWNJ podcast.”

Seriously.

It’s embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Welp, now we know.

The cities are training centers, indeed, but not for ICE.

?

Just me maybe? Did I miss a new story?

No, just a note that Trump said the following:

“I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” Trump said, referring to War Secretary Pete Hegseth. “We’re going into Chicago very soon.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/trumps-plan-use-us-cities-military-training-grounds-sparks-legal-civil-military-concern.html

But the people who are learning and improving their ability to fight are those resisting. Each city learns what works and teaches the next. They aren't getting better at what they do, but we are.

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^^

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

He had come to Iglesia Cristiana La Viña Burnsville, about 15 miles south of the Twin Cities, to pick up food for families who are too afraid to go out—some have barely left home since federal immigration agents deployed to Minnesota two months ago. The church was filled with pallets of frozen meat and vegetables, diapers, fruit, and toilet paper. Outside, a man wearing a leather biker vest bearing the insignia of the Latin American Motorcycle Association, his blond beard flecked with ice crystals, directed a line of cars through the snow.
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Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about. Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of “the resistance”—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.

Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names.
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The largest is the protesters, who show up at events such as Friday’s march in downtown Minneapolis, and at the airport, where deportation flights take off. Many protesters have faced tear gas and pepper spray, and below-zero temperatures—during the Twin Cities march on Friday, I couldn’t take notes; the ink in my pens had frozen.

Then there are the people who load up their car with food, toiletries, and school supplies from churches or schools to take to families in hiding. They also help families who cannot work meet their rent or mortgage payments. In addition to driving around with Olsen, I rode along with a Twin Cities mom of young kids named Amanda as she did deliveries (she asked me to use only her first name). Riding in her small car—her back row was taken up by three child seats and a smattering of stray toys—she told me that she’d gotten involved after more than 100 students at her kids’ elementary school simply stopped coming in. Parents got organized to provide the families with food, to shepherd their kids to school, and to arrange playdates for those stuck inside.
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If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Most commuters work in pairs—a co-pilot listens in on a dispatcher who provides the locations of ICE encounters and can run plates through a database of cars that federal agents have used in the past. Green Bean explained what happens when they identify an ICE vehicle. (Both ICE and Border Patrol are in Minneapolis, but everyone just calls them ICE.) The commuters will follow the agents, honking loudly, until they leave the neighborhood or stop and get out.

The commuters—as my colleague Robert Worth reported—do not have a centralized leadership but have been trained by local activist groups that have experience from past protests against police killings, and recent immigration-enforcement sweeps in L.A. and Chicago. The observers are taught to conscientiously follow the law, including traffic rules, and to try to avoid physical confrontation with federal agents.

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^^PS: I don't know when this will end, PP, or how that will look. I hate what's going on. I think I'm still stuck in disbelief that this could happen in my country.

I also can see that the people of this country have methodically and slowly built a set of skills and compiled information about resistance. Minnesota is incredible on its own, mind you, but you don't get Minneapolis (like this) without Chicago taking notes, and reaching out, and building on what happened in Portland.

We had a lot of "don't tread on me" cosplaying going around, but we weren't really good at saying "no," and holding ground, and getting people fed and hidden and the like -- not until Minneapolis. And the next city won't be starting from scratch, either.

Here's a site compiling relief organizations for donation, if anyone's of a mind. I am setting aside some every week to send:

https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

I really do think Trump's administration is ending up training regular people how to resist. I wish it weren't necessary, but this is a part of American culture I can be proud of. Go, Minneapolis.