Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers, everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.
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@cdarwin I feel comparing ICE to the Gestapo is incorrect and The NKVD of Stalins USSR is a better comparison. I might be wrong.
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Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers,
everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods
—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE,
I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says.The call goes quiet for a few seconds.
“I’m being pulled over.”Dispatch chimes in:
“Stay unmuted,
turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call,
everyone else please stay on mute.”We hear banging,
then something shatters.“ICE just smashed their window,”
our driver explains calmly,
decelerating ahead of a red light.We are shocked,
but this is a regular occurrence.Everyone on the call keeps their cool.
We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them,
boxing them in,
smashing their car windows,
pepper-spraying them,
holding them at gun point,
shooting out their tires,
detaining them.Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters,
the #Whipple building.Others have been driven to the other side of the city
and thrown out of the vehicle,
️alone in the cold. Their cars have been left running in the road.
The responders tell us all these stories in passing,
quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.
A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone,
they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.
They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.
They make
️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses. They make dinners for one another,
they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road,
an entire café full of people stood up as one,
dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound.We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors.
Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/from-rapid-response-to-revolutionary-social-change-the-potential-of-the-rapid-response-networks@cdarwin just a note that there's a 40 degree difference between 20 and -20, this morning's actual temperature.
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The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.
It’s not just an uptick in raids.
It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.
You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.
They don’t check papers.
Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.
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Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers,
everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods
—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE,
I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says.The call goes quiet for a few seconds.
“I’m being pulled over.”Dispatch chimes in:
“Stay unmuted,
turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call,
everyone else please stay on mute.”We hear banging,
then something shatters.“ICE just smashed their window,”
our driver explains calmly,
decelerating ahead of a red light.We are shocked,
but this is a regular occurrence.Everyone on the call keeps their cool.
We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them,
boxing them in,
smashing their car windows,
pepper-spraying them,
holding them at gun point,
shooting out their tires,
detaining them.Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters,
the #Whipple building.Others have been driven to the other side of the city
and thrown out of the vehicle,️alone in the cold. Their cars have been left running in the road.
The responders tell us all these stories in passing,
quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too.
ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away.
A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone,
they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises.
They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets.
They make
️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses. They make dinners for one another,
they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks.They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road,
an entire café full of people stood up as one,
dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound.We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors.
Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/from-rapid-response-to-revolutionary-social-change-the-potential-of-the-rapid-response-networksQuotes from Lincoln’s speeches, contained in #LincolnPortrait by #Copeland :
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. (Annual Message to Congress [since the twentieth century, State of the Union], December 1, 1862)
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. (Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
It is the eternal struggle between two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. It is the same spirit that says 'you toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation, and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle. (Lincoln–Douglas debates, October 15, 1858)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. (Gettysburg Address)
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@cdarwin
where are the sane, honorable, law abiding men in the military to put a stop to this? the whole military is just standing by watching the rape of MinneapolisMaybe Kissinger was right about the military after all?
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@cdarwin sorry to say but I think you're heading for civil war within a 1 - 2 years. There's enough guns to go around.
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Maybe Kissinger was right about the military after all?
@n_dimension @cdarwin
I didn't know what he said.. so I looked..
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
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@courtcan And they are so like the Klan, especially that iteration with the ragged cloth masks, evil and anonymous, chaotic fools certain of their correctness.
@Gustodon Yes.
There is a direct line from the Klan of the 1800s to the ICE thugs of the 2020s.
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