cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41861198
An intense cat-and-mouse game is putting enraged residents face to face with heavily armed federal agents.
Jan. 17, 2026
Fear and fury can explode on any street corner during this charged time in Minneapolis, any time, any place the muscle of the federal government meets the rage of the citizens who reject its tactics.
Thousands of people attended a march last Saturday to mourn Renee Good, the woman an ICE agent had shot and killed days earlier. There have been school walkouts, daily protests outside the federal building where agents take detainees, four-person protests on frigid street corners and an hourslong demonstration after an ICE agent shot a man in the leg while attempting to detain him on Wednesday night.
By referring to these people repeatedly as “activists” they separate them from what they really are: citizens. And don’t think the NYT isn’t very aware of what they’re doing.
“But we gotta whip both sides into a frenzy. Bigger news makes for bigger profits!”
It is a cat-and-mouse game with a global audience, high stakes and a looming element of danger. Activists are pressing against a gray zone of legality as they try to confront heavily armed federal agents they accuse of doing far worse.
What, like murder? Fucking NYT, goddamn you.
If ICE agents are running red lights, speeding and just generally driving dangerously then the local police and state troopers need to be pulling them over and issuing tickets.
“Our heavily armed convoy is being followed by people with whistles” isn’t a reason to break traffic laws.
Then, during their afternoon shift, someone monitoring the area on foot alerted the group chat that an S.U.V. carrying ICE agents had been spotted in an Auto Zone parking lot. The friends arrived just in time to see the S.U.V. pulling out. They did a quick U-turn to follow it.
“Leave them alone!” a woman yelled at the activists.
The driver lobbed an expletive back and tailed the S.U.V. onto the highway.
Stupid nazi fuckwit
>street level
>nyt
I’m just gonna stick to the more local news to msp thanks
