ICE invades Minnesota and Minnesotans fight back

Protesters astatine the intersection of 26th and Nicollett aft national and section instrumentality enforcement near the country of a fatal shooting by national officers successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reports accidental that 37-year-old Alex Pretti was the unfortunate of the fatal shooting by national officers, who was astatine the country arsenic an observer. The incidental was captured connected video by bystanders. (Photo by Steven Garcia/The Verge) | Photo by Steven Garcia / The Verge

The Trump medication has flooded Minneapolis and different parts of Minnesota with national agents arsenic portion of its migration crackdown, Operation Metro Surge — detaining children, intimidating protestors and assemblage organizers, and killing aggregate people.

Minnesotans person responded with mass community-level resistance, including communal assistance and tracking ICE operations, contempt threats and surveillance — including done systems built by tech companies similar Clearview AI and Palantir. Backlash to the crackdown dispersed online aft the January 24th sidesplitting of Alex Pretti, including among hobbyist communities and typically apolitical influencers.

• Don Lemon has been arrested for covering an anti-ICE protest
• Parenting successful ICE-occupied Minneapolis
• I grew up with Alex Pretti
• It doesn’t substance if Alex Pretti had a gun
• Why won’t anyone halt ICE from masking?
• The time of the 2nd killing
• How overmuch tin a metropolis take?
• Minnesota wants to triumph a warfare of attrition
• Influencer contented is substance for an internet-obsessed administration