Having local PD help with crowd control is sorely overdue. It was local politicians choosing to refuse that aid, plus their sanctuary policies of releasing criminal detainees into the community rather than directly to ICE, that created all that chaos that resulted in 2 deaths.
No such chaos happening in areas where the locals actually cooperate.
The responsibility for the chaos -- and the deaths of Good and Pretti -- lies squarely with Walz, Ellison and arguably most of all, with Frey.
If these local politicos had cooperated with ICE -- by notifying ICE when they [the locals] already had people in custody for various offenses and by providing police support to maintain a buffer between the feds and the "protestors" [sic!!! activists], there's a very good chance (cripes, what a horrible pun) that Good and Pretti would be alive.
I still view Good as the real tragedy. Just seemed to be a out-of-town ditz who thought it would be fun/cool to go be a pain in the @$$ with her girlfriend. Just didn't think it through...at all. Pretti seems a different matter. Just seems very odd to me that a nurse at the VA -- who presumably works with people damaged by the stress of conflict -- would be so militant as to bring a weapon, extra ammo and a sight to a protest. I worked and taught up there. I knew some people who worked at the VA. Not particularly left-wingers if you know what I mean.
This entire affair seemed, to me at least, a transparent attempt to deflection attention from the colossal fraud crisis.
I don't like saying this but it sure seemed to me that Walz, Ellison and Frey couldn't have cared less if people were hurt and property was damaged as a result of their faux-noble (i.e., hypocritical) refusal to do their jobs.
The real villains are Walz, Ellison and Frey.
Oh, here's a thing to remember: as I recall, Keith Ellison prevented the release of the bodycam footage of the arrest of George Floyd until things were completely out of control.
Not to mention the encouragement by Walz to have protestors document ICE activity. When people put themselves in a middle of a fraught and dangerous environment, bad things happen. Walz and Frey should reflect on what role they had in two needless deaths (not saying ICE acted properly in the Pretti matter), but they won't.
I credit Trump's phone call to Walz. Not sure what was said, but I'd speculate that the evidence of Walz' involvement in the day care fraud was discussed, and Trump made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Ellison is a punk. His smirking and laughing at the victims of the horrendous crimes committed by his "neighbors of color" during the hearing today makes him the most punchable face of the lot of them.
“No stalking, impeding, or obstruction here, but the filming will continue!” Fischer replied on X. “Every federal agent swore an oath to protect and defend that right.”
I don't know, this comment seems a little "activist-adjacent" to me for a reporter working under the supposedly non-partisan and objective new Racket Regime.
I thought the same; what's the point following them; just to be there when the inevitable situation goes sideways? Immigration agents do their job all over the country without any trouble, so is the story enforcement or what the rioters are hoping will happen - for it to blow up and have more casualties?
If following and filming is antagonizing then I predict these crybabies will be antagonized indefinitely since that is legal and constitutionally protected activity.
I'm not an absolutist on much (except maybe common sense), but I agree that documenting enforcement activity (as opposed to obstructing) is good. I also agree that political bans/overreach ( Covid) and political interference/deceit by intelligence/govt agencies (Hunter Biden) are bad.
following and filming can intentionally or unintentionally create cover for others. I'm not sure which Ford is. It may be protected, but it can contribute to a risky and violent atmosphere, like the one that got Pretti and Good shot.
Stating our first amendment rights as a journalist isn’t “activist” behavior. It’s a patriotic American right. Very third world of you to accuse a patriot exercising their rights as an activist.
Journalism and exercising free speech is patriotic. Filming Feds who are threatening you for legal and constitutional activity is patriotic. Not bowing down to the government when they stomp on your rights is patriotic. Doing otherwise is communist.
But it does involve understanding the difference between "free speech" and "documentation" versus "interference". That gets lost in a lot of the hoopla.
That’s totally fair and I agree. The difference to me is one side are a bunch of civilians and the other is the federal government. Citizens who violate the law should and in many cases will be punished for their crimes. Where’s the accountability for the federal government threatening a reporter who was doing absolutely none of that illegal activity but was just following and filming?
I’d like to see both “sides” punished for wrong doing. People who block agents should be arrested. Agents who tell people who are only filming that they are now a domestic terrorist on a list and publicly post videos about those people in an attempt to intimidate them need to be fired.
There are going to be plenty of arrests of citizens even if there should be more. But there’s essentially no accountability for the feds.
And Julian Assange? Seems Democrats and Republicans alike trampled on a reporter shining light on TRUE stories. Seems there is no rule of law for those who wield power.
Which really is the crux, isn’t it? The whole rule-of-law system, like Carney’s UN speech a few weeks ago admitted, is arbitrary for those in power. And that is what needs fixing. Sacrosanct free speech. And massive penalties for whoever tries to subvert that all-powerful sunlight. Julian Assange should be revered. Instead western “democracies” celebrate throwing him in a maximum security prison and nobody in MSM says boo.
A person who defends the inalienable and constitutionally enshrined rights of Americans by exercising them in defiance of a federal government that’s trying to interfere with those rights and publicly intimidate them into ending legal and constitutional activity is a patriot. Those who side with the government in trying to suppress or suspend American’s exercise of such rights are communists who must be thrown out of helicopters.
The protests in Minnesota have had nothing to do with, in your terms, "defiance of a federal government that’s trying to interfere with those rights."
The feds were there to arrest people who are illegally in the United States. The feds are enforcing immigration law which was flouted under the (O)Biden administration.
It also appears to be the case that there's a nontrivial amount of overlap with an ongoing investigation of large-scale fraud. Fraud that may well involved the leading municipal officials: Walz, Ellison and Frey/.
Yes, the First Amendment protects our right to express our opinion. It does not grant us the right to interfere with law enforcement -- agents of the Executive Branch -- and prevent them from doing their job enforcing laws passed by a congress of democratically-elected representatives.
There are lines to be observed.
I don't see the feds as interfering with people's right to express themselves; I see municipal officials ostensibly purposefully preventing local law enforcement from ensuring there is a buffer between the "protesters" and the federal agents. The chaos clearly benefits Walz, Ellison and Frey (yes, I know I consistently mention them not in alphabetic order) as it is a distraction from the fraud investigation and putatively buys them time.
I didn’t say they are Americans you fucking retard. Take your Ma Deuce and put it to use by sucking it dry. There won’t be any brain matter on the wall behind you.
Freedom of the press is one aspect of American constitutionally enshrined inalienable rights. Following and filming feds in public places is protected free speech activity. Those who try to interfere with that activity on behalf of the government, trying to publicly intimidate those Americans exercising their rights legally, are communists who should be thrown out of a helicopter.
And also when reporters obstruct (as in prevent) lawful enforcement activity. It's like art and porn: in our formerly cohesive society, local citizens were trusted to know it when they saw it. Kind of like a jury of peers is (was?) supposed to work. Common sense, folks. Now we have jury consultants.
Wherever is one word. Also, your wording is a bit jumbled. I think you're trying to say that it's fine for journalists to follow LEOs as they are covering a story, right?
That's true so long as they're not actively helping suspects move to avoid capture and/or are coordinating efforts to impede in LEO business.
yeah, just go where the story goes... follow the LEO's or follow the whistles. This doesn't really look different than what Ford Fischer has done before.
Has FF done video of the protesters, such as how they get equipped, coordinate, get food and shelter, payment, etc. Are they local or coming in from elsewhere (including other protests)? Asking seriously, as I have not seen everything FF has done.
If local cops would have arrested Good and Pretti for their interference they'd still be alive. But that's not what the insurrection party wanted. They wanted martyrs
Fisher, or anyone, has the right to document and observe law enforcement while they are doing their job. But don't get snide with comments about them using a variety of tricks to lose their tails. Fisher might be fully on the side of not interfering or obstructing, but I've seen too many self reported videos from activists bragging about how they are interferring or obstructing. I would hope Fisher would understand that since he is in the convoys with the activists. To lose the activists means to lose Fisher.
P.S. if you are tracking or following someone's movements in order to call in another group that will actually do the harassment and interference...you are part of the interference.
The activist press, and the obstructionist protesters who use their vehicles to block streets, spit at ICE officers, kick ICE cars, are not peaceful. They aren’t even protesters. They are perpetrators of chaos porn. They are supported by dishonest politicians who want to keep as many illegal aliens in Minnesota as possible. I’m glad ICE is leaving this hell hole. Now any illegal in America who hasn’t been deported yet should move to Minnesota. Let them commit crimes there. Let them commit fraud on the taxpayers of Minnesota. Let them break into the homes of the activists and take over their residences. Unleash them. Let them drive drunk, rape, murder, and assault Minnesotans. Have at it.
And let the rest of the states stop supporting Minnesota's fraud culture. No more federal funds for the state to manage. Strict oversight and federal audits of all federal funds going to "sanctuary" cities.
It was a complete dereliction of duty on the part of Mayor Frey to stand down MPD from controlling hostile crowds attempting to interfere with federal LE operations. ICE is not trained for crowd control. They're trained to seek and arrest fugitives from the law. MPD and Sheriff's depts. are trained and outfitted for crowd control. Should have been close co-ordination between local, state, and feds from the very start and practically all of this moronic sturm and drang would have been avoided. Renee Good's kids would still have a mom and the VA would still have Pretti.
I read the article expecting the long awaited reporting on the ‘activist/insurrectionists’ groups impeding lawful arrests and their financial backers. Instead you are complaining them complaining about your inept tailing tactics giving away their impending raid. The lack of cooperation of state and city law officers in controlling crowds was mentioned. But the turnovers resuming not. The obvious link to government officials not providing that assistance not mentioned or reported on at all. That’s not ‘not having a take.’ That’s incomplete reporting.
Can we have a discussion about sanctuary cities and states and how their laws contradict federal immigration law?
I'll start. In 2024, California spent $9.5 billion of the state's budget on illegal alien healthcare. Services paid for by taxpayers that illegals paid zero to receive. (sources: politico and legalclarity).
According to Visaverge, another $22 billion was spent in CA for housing, education, food, legal services, etc for illegal aliens.
One of the revelations in the recent congressional hearings on fraud was the testimony given by one of the witnesses about why sanctuary cities exist. He pointed out that sanctuary jurisdictions are magnets for illegal immigrants and recent migrants, since there is so much welfare available to them. It becomes a self-feeding monster where the more of them there are, the more welfare money the state gets. Couple this with a work force that is operating on the black market (illegal labor force) and migrants from low-trust cultures with practically no vetting along with dishonest native criminals and politicians and in just a few years, you have multi-billion-dollar fraud schemes to steal our money. Further, these sanctuary cities become dependent upon stolen money circulating through their economies. Consider this: If it's true that at least $500M per year is stolen in Minneapolis welfare fraud schemes and just 10% of it was spent in local businesses, that's a $50M (illegal) annual subsidy to these businesses. Political campaigns become dependent upon these fraud communities for donations, but more importantly, for voting blocs to keep returning the corrupt ones in power in order to protect the fraudsters. See AG Keith Ellison and Mayor Frey and their criminal patronage. Across the nation, we're talking tens of billions of public funds going to sanctuary cities that are designed to accommodate the astounding levels of fraud we're discovering.
The scariest word to any scammer is audit. Sure we need LEOs doing some of this work, but accounting forensic specialists are needed as much as guns and handcuffs.
Given what has been going on, I cannot blame ICE/CBP officers if they cannot tell the difference between being tailed by legit journalists or activists intent on interfering with them.
Tailing ICE is a waste of your time Fischer. How about some real follow the money reporting on who’s financing all this “Save the illegals” nonsense. That would be useful, unlike the dreck you appear to be focusing on now.
"“In my previous trip, federal agents would do the majority of front line policing against people protesting them. This would lead to street skirmishes involving tear gas, pepper spray, and sting balls, which would in turn tend to have an escalating effect."
Yeah, no shit.
I'm happy the Minneapolis government has finally allowed their officers to do their job, but it's insanely long overdue.
This wasn't just an ICE thing - this is the same place that was burned down during the Floyd riots - and for some insane reason Walz (and his wife who talked about loving the smell of buning tires) were proud of that.
Enough is enough with this shit.
We can't live in a country where the mentally adolescent are cheered on by politicians to obstruct law enforcement whenever they feel like it. That's how a society devolves into anarchy.
The regular (vanishing) middle class people who try to go to work every day are always the ones who suffer from this nonsense.
Instead of harassing federal agents doing the work we want them to do, why doesn't the little puke report on who is funding and organizing the "activists" who are protecting the rapists, murderers and drug dealers that the Democrats let into our country?
Having local PD help with crowd control is sorely overdue. It was local politicians choosing to refuse that aid, plus their sanctuary policies of releasing criminal detainees into the community rather than directly to ICE, that created all that chaos that resulted in 2 deaths.
No such chaos happening in areas where the locals actually cooperate.
The responsibility for the chaos -- and the deaths of Good and Pretti -- lies squarely with Walz, Ellison and arguably most of all, with Frey.
If these local politicos had cooperated with ICE -- by notifying ICE when they [the locals] already had people in custody for various offenses and by providing police support to maintain a buffer between the feds and the "protestors" [sic!!! activists], there's a very good chance (cripes, what a horrible pun) that Good and Pretti would be alive.
I still view Good as the real tragedy. Just seemed to be a out-of-town ditz who thought it would be fun/cool to go be a pain in the @$$ with her girlfriend. Just didn't think it through...at all. Pretti seems a different matter. Just seems very odd to me that a nurse at the VA -- who presumably works with people damaged by the stress of conflict -- would be so militant as to bring a weapon, extra ammo and a sight to a protest. I worked and taught up there. I knew some people who worked at the VA. Not particularly left-wingers if you know what I mean.
This entire affair seemed, to me at least, a transparent attempt to deflection attention from the colossal fraud crisis.
I don't like saying this but it sure seemed to me that Walz, Ellison and Frey couldn't have cared less if people were hurt and property was damaged as a result of their faux-noble (i.e., hypocritical) refusal to do their jobs.
The real villains are Walz, Ellison and Frey.
Oh, here's a thing to remember: as I recall, Keith Ellison prevented the release of the bodycam footage of the arrest of George Floyd until things were completely out of control.
Not to mention the encouragement by Walz to have protestors document ICE activity. When people put themselves in a middle of a fraught and dangerous environment, bad things happen. Walz and Frey should reflect on what role they had in two needless deaths (not saying ICE acted properly in the Pretti matter), but they won't.
All that talk about truth . . . but then, here comes Ford Fisher with some biased BS.
in your opinion and one not shared by the majority of decent people..
I credit Trump's phone call to Walz. Not sure what was said, but I'd speculate that the evidence of Walz' involvement in the day care fraud was discussed, and Trump made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Super plausible!
Ellison is a punk. His smirking and laughing at the victims of the horrendous crimes committed by his "neighbors of color" during the hearing today makes him the most punchable face of the lot of them.
Frey isn’t any better. Minnesota passive aggressive.
Every now and again, when speaking publicly, he would steer towards reasonableness, but would always veer off into left field.
“No stalking, impeding, or obstruction here, but the filming will continue!” Fischer replied on X. “Every federal agent swore an oath to protect and defend that right.”
I don't know, this comment seems a little "activist-adjacent" to me for a reporter working under the supposedly non-partisan and objective new Racket Regime.
I thought the same; what's the point following them; just to be there when the inevitable situation goes sideways? Immigration agents do their job all over the country without any trouble, so is the story enforcement or what the rioters are hoping will happen - for it to blow up and have more casualties?
Fischer is antagonizing law enforcement.
If following and filming is antagonizing then I predict these crybabies will be antagonized indefinitely since that is legal and constitutionally protected activity.
Were you thinking this when covid skeptics were systematically censored and any dissident was de facto banned from time and space in society?
Legit question.
Yes and not only that but also against the banning by social media of the Hunter Biden story.
I'm not an absolutist on much (except maybe common sense), but I agree that documenting enforcement activity (as opposed to obstructing) is good. I also agree that political bans/overreach ( Covid) and political interference/deceit by intelligence/govt agencies (Hunter Biden) are bad.
following and filming can intentionally or unintentionally create cover for others. I'm not sure which Ford is. It may be protected, but it can contribute to a risky and violent atmosphere, like the one that got Pretti and Good shot.
Stating our first amendment rights as a journalist isn’t “activist” behavior. It’s a patriotic American right. Very third world of you to accuse a patriot exercising their rights as an activist.
How is dogging federal agents "patriotic?"
Journalism and exercising free speech is patriotic. Filming Feds who are threatening you for legal and constitutional activity is patriotic. Not bowing down to the government when they stomp on your rights is patriotic. Doing otherwise is communist.
Stomp on whose rights? The illegals? The people interfering with law enforcement?
But it does involve understanding the difference between "free speech" and "documentation" versus "interference". That gets lost in a lot of the hoopla.
That’s totally fair and I agree. The difference to me is one side are a bunch of civilians and the other is the federal government. Citizens who violate the law should and in many cases will be punished for their crimes. Where’s the accountability for the federal government threatening a reporter who was doing absolutely none of that illegal activity but was just following and filming?
I’d like to see both “sides” punished for wrong doing. People who block agents should be arrested. Agents who tell people who are only filming that they are now a domestic terrorist on a list and publicly post videos about those people in an attempt to intimidate them need to be fired.
There are going to be plenty of arrests of citizens even if there should be more. But there’s essentially no accountability for the feds.
I agree with some of what you're saying but the ratio of one "side" to the other is about 1000 to one.
And Julian Assange? Seems Democrats and Republicans alike trampled on a reporter shining light on TRUE stories. Seems there is no rule of law for those who wield power.
I agree
Which really is the crux, isn’t it? The whole rule-of-law system, like Carney’s UN speech a few weeks ago admitted, is arbitrary for those in power. And that is what needs fixing. Sacrosanct free speech. And massive penalties for whoever tries to subvert that all-powerful sunlight. Julian Assange should be revered. Instead western “democracies” celebrate throwing him in a maximum security prison and nobody in MSM says boo.
The people who were engaged in obstructing federal agents - a felony - were not exercising 1st Amendment rights.
Those not engaged in obstruction were not exercising their rights? Did you make a typo?
Fixed, thanks!
A "patriotic" American
does not support illegal alien criminals
read the definition
a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
A person who defends the inalienable and constitutionally enshrined rights of Americans by exercising them in defiance of a federal government that’s trying to interfere with those rights and publicly intimidate them into ending legal and constitutional activity is a patriot. Those who side with the government in trying to suppress or suspend American’s exercise of such rights are communists who must be thrown out of helicopters.
The protests in Minnesota have had nothing to do with, in your terms, "defiance of a federal government that’s trying to interfere with those rights."
The feds were there to arrest people who are illegally in the United States. The feds are enforcing immigration law which was flouted under the (O)Biden administration.
It also appears to be the case that there's a nontrivial amount of overlap with an ongoing investigation of large-scale fraud. Fraud that may well involved the leading municipal officials: Walz, Ellison and Frey/.
Yes, the First Amendment protects our right to express our opinion. It does not grant us the right to interfere with law enforcement -- agents of the Executive Branch -- and prevent them from doing their job enforcing laws passed by a congress of democratically-elected representatives.
There are lines to be observed.
I don't see the feds as interfering with people's right to express themselves; I see municipal officials ostensibly purposefully preventing local law enforcement from ensuring there is a buffer between the "protesters" and the federal agents. The chaos clearly benefits Walz, Ellison and Frey (yes, I know I consistently mention them not in alphabetic order) as it is a distraction from the fraud investigation and putatively buys them time.
I’m not talking about the protests. You are. I’m talking about the author of this piece and the federal agency trying to publicly intimidate him.
And it's tricky! Fischer has a right to document matters but not to interfere.
The authorities do hold a right to claim that their efforts are being hampered.
Also, I thought Fischer was mainly focused on the protests, hence the name "Activism Uncensored".
It's a fine line but the feds to have a right to complain if they feel like their efforts to enforce the law are being infringed upon!
We have the right to express our opinion, not to interfere. If the feds think Fischer is following too closely, then they can complain.
I don't see Fischer as being meaningfully impaired in his ability to document matters.
Ha! What we are doing here -- debating -- is really what the First Amendment is about.
:-)
illegal aliens
are not Americans
bring your Helicopter by
my Ma Deuce
will be ready
I didn’t say they are Americans you fucking retard. Take your Ma Deuce and put it to use by sucking it dry. There won’t be any brain matter on the wall behind you.
I have to admit that that exchange -- while maybe a little "extra spicey" -- did crack me up!
It's been a long day. Shoot it's been a long several years of lots of work and I reserve the right to get entertainment where I can.
But, at the risk of using a hackneyed expression, I'd say we all could use to "lower the temperature".
No-one's getting their helicopter or John-Browning-designed 50 cals.
But that was a pretty funny exchange. I needed it.
Wow.
Ur lack understanding of freedom of the press. It doesn't give you no-jail card. In fact, try claiming that shit on the front line of a war.
Freedom of the press is one aspect of American constitutionally enshrined inalienable rights. Following and filming feds in public places is protected free speech activity. Those who try to interfere with that activity on behalf of the government, trying to publicly intimidate those Americans exercising their rights legally, are communists who should be thrown out of a helicopter.
Show me in the Constitution where it says that chasing law enforcement around filming is a protected right.
Following, not chasing, in public places, as well as filming, is all 1st amendment protected.
Are you trying to claim that filming is speech? Or something else?
Stating that I am a journalist does not give me immunity from violating others 1A rights. Or from endangering their lives.
Is filming or photography not part of journalism?
100% it is. When tailing LEOs, where is the line crossed? To Chris' point, why are the problems happening in some cities and states and not others?
Spoiler alert: when local politicos prevent the police from doing their job and maintaining order -- what a surprise -- chaos ensues.
And also when reporters obstruct (as in prevent) lawful enforcement activity. It's like art and porn: in our formerly cohesive society, local citizens were trusted to know it when they saw it. Kind of like a jury of peers is (was?) supposed to work. Common sense, folks. Now we have jury consultants.
journalism can happen where-ever the story is? Or where-ever local police or doing one thing or a different thing?
Wherever is one word. Also, your wording is a bit jumbled. I think you're trying to say that it's fine for journalists to follow LEOs as they are covering a story, right?
That's true so long as they're not actively helping suspects move to avoid capture and/or are coordinating efforts to impede in LEO business.
yeah, just go where the story goes... follow the LEO's or follow the whistles. This doesn't really look different than what Ford Fischer has done before.
As for why something is happening in some places and not others.... that's a different question. https://www.racket.news/p/from-the-old-editor-we-care-if-its
You are right . Ford always stirs up the crowds hoping for a money shot.
Agree. Dispassionate objectivity?
totes, I thought this is why they got rid of Walter
Reporters who do not show sympathy are stalked, harassed and in danger of violence. Your comment is nonsensical.
Has FF done video of the protesters, such as how they get equipped, coordinate, get food and shelter, payment, etc. Are they local or coming in from elsewhere (including other protests)? Asking seriously, as I have not seen everything FF has done.
Those are great questions and I too would like to see FF document that. So far I’ve only seen the chaos scenes (and now pizza and dildos)
They’ll post those stories soon. Right now they’re busy putting together all the photos and videos of the Palestine famine victims.
If local cops would have arrested Good and Pretti for their interference they'd still be alive. But that's not what the insurrection party wanted. They wanted martyrs
Fisher, or anyone, has the right to document and observe law enforcement while they are doing their job. But don't get snide with comments about them using a variety of tricks to lose their tails. Fisher might be fully on the side of not interfering or obstructing, but I've seen too many self reported videos from activists bragging about how they are interferring or obstructing. I would hope Fisher would understand that since he is in the convoys with the activists. To lose the activists means to lose Fisher.
P.S. if you are tracking or following someone's movements in order to call in another group that will actually do the harassment and interference...you are part of the interference.
Exactly.
Well said.
You seem to be a bit of an activist Mr. Ford, with an agenda.
The activist press, and the obstructionist protesters who use their vehicles to block streets, spit at ICE officers, kick ICE cars, are not peaceful. They aren’t even protesters. They are perpetrators of chaos porn. They are supported by dishonest politicians who want to keep as many illegal aliens in Minnesota as possible. I’m glad ICE is leaving this hell hole. Now any illegal in America who hasn’t been deported yet should move to Minnesota. Let them commit crimes there. Let them commit fraud on the taxpayers of Minnesota. Let them break into the homes of the activists and take over their residences. Unleash them. Let them drive drunk, rape, murder, and assault Minnesotans. Have at it.
And let the rest of the states stop supporting Minnesota's fraud culture. No more federal funds for the state to manage. Strict oversight and federal audits of all federal funds going to "sanctuary" cities.
It was a complete dereliction of duty on the part of Mayor Frey to stand down MPD from controlling hostile crowds attempting to interfere with federal LE operations. ICE is not trained for crowd control. They're trained to seek and arrest fugitives from the law. MPD and Sheriff's depts. are trained and outfitted for crowd control. Should have been close co-ordination between local, state, and feds from the very start and practically all of this moronic sturm and drang would have been avoided. Renee Good's kids would still have a mom and the VA would still have Pretti.
So, glad that FUBAR is finally settling out.
I read the article expecting the long awaited reporting on the ‘activist/insurrectionists’ groups impeding lawful arrests and their financial backers. Instead you are complaining them complaining about your inept tailing tactics giving away their impending raid. The lack of cooperation of state and city law officers in controlling crowds was mentioned. But the turnovers resuming not. The obvious link to government officials not providing that assistance not mentioned or reported on at all. That’s not ‘not having a take.’ That’s incomplete reporting.
Can we have a discussion about sanctuary cities and states and how their laws contradict federal immigration law?
I'll start. In 2024, California spent $9.5 billion of the state's budget on illegal alien healthcare. Services paid for by taxpayers that illegals paid zero to receive. (sources: politico and legalclarity).
According to Visaverge, another $22 billion was spent in CA for housing, education, food, legal services, etc for illegal aliens.
This is not sustainable.
One of the revelations in the recent congressional hearings on fraud was the testimony given by one of the witnesses about why sanctuary cities exist. He pointed out that sanctuary jurisdictions are magnets for illegal immigrants and recent migrants, since there is so much welfare available to them. It becomes a self-feeding monster where the more of them there are, the more welfare money the state gets. Couple this with a work force that is operating on the black market (illegal labor force) and migrants from low-trust cultures with practically no vetting along with dishonest native criminals and politicians and in just a few years, you have multi-billion-dollar fraud schemes to steal our money. Further, these sanctuary cities become dependent upon stolen money circulating through their economies. Consider this: If it's true that at least $500M per year is stolen in Minneapolis welfare fraud schemes and just 10% of it was spent in local businesses, that's a $50M (illegal) annual subsidy to these businesses. Political campaigns become dependent upon these fraud communities for donations, but more importantly, for voting blocs to keep returning the corrupt ones in power in order to protect the fraudsters. See AG Keith Ellison and Mayor Frey and their criminal patronage. Across the nation, we're talking tens of billions of public funds going to sanctuary cities that are designed to accommodate the astounding levels of fraud we're discovering.
Since when is it the taxpayers responsibility for illegals? They are not our problem to feed and house. Just end it.
The scariest word to any scammer is audit. Sure we need LEOs doing some of this work, but accounting forensic specialists are needed as much as guns and handcuffs.
It's usually the paperwork that gets you.
That's the point that it is not sustainable....to break the system...that's a feature....Cloward- Piven....
I am sorry but these people are seriously mentally ill...paid or unpaid...listen to them....unhinged...
Super-sized (spoiled) children.
Given what has been going on, I cannot blame ICE/CBP officers if they cannot tell the difference between being tailed by legit journalists or activists intent on interfering with them.
More of the same? Not news.
Tailing ICE is a waste of your time Fischer. How about some real follow the money reporting on who’s financing all this “Save the illegals” nonsense. That would be useful, unlike the dreck you appear to be focusing on now.
"“In my previous trip, federal agents would do the majority of front line policing against people protesting them. This would lead to street skirmishes involving tear gas, pepper spray, and sting balls, which would in turn tend to have an escalating effect."
Yeah, no shit.
I'm happy the Minneapolis government has finally allowed their officers to do their job, but it's insanely long overdue.
This wasn't just an ICE thing - this is the same place that was burned down during the Floyd riots - and for some insane reason Walz (and his wife who talked about loving the smell of buning tires) were proud of that.
Enough is enough with this shit.
We can't live in a country where the mentally adolescent are cheered on by politicians to obstruct law enforcement whenever they feel like it. That's how a society devolves into anarchy.
The regular (vanishing) middle class people who try to go to work every day are always the ones who suffer from this nonsense.
It's so fucking tiresome.
Instead of harassing federal agents doing the work we want them to do, why doesn't the little puke report on who is funding and organizing the "activists" who are protecting the rapists, murderers and drug dealers that the Democrats let into our country?