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Journalist Don Lemon has been arrested after he covered a Minnesota church protest

Got any pics of him taken away in handcuffs?







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Looked to good to be true, probably AI.

I wonder if costumes are being used like in Portland.

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Damn.

[Vrede too]

Damn.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdxra5b43k2n

Observers know that what they are doing is perfectly legal, that "obstructing" is , that blowing whistles and honking horns are 1A protected, that they will be released by prosecutors or judges without charges, and that they may have grounds for civil suits. So, one or more of them is going to get "too mouthy" with ICE and BANG! Little dick insecure mfers.

"reiterate again"

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I just watched the testimony in Congress by:

One of Renee (NeNe) brothers, I missed the other one. He can't explain what is happening to NeNe's 4 year old niece.

Innocent U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by CPB liars.

Others.

We can now no longer just blame LEOs, Miller and Dementia Don. You've heard the truth, Congress. If you don't act you will be damned forever.

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Jackbooting.

BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents pulled guns on a car full of legal observers, saying they needed to “ID” them TODAY, because agents claim they had guns YESTERDAY.

Read that again.

Agents openly admit this stop had nothing to do with anything happening now, but with something they claim happened the day before.

That sounds a lot like U.S. citizens being stopped and detained for exercising their First Amendment rights, while agents catalog people they believe exercise their Second Amendment rights, into their database.

A database that, allegedly, included Alex Pretti.

In the video, agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapolis.

Multiple agents have their weapons drawn… guns turned sideways… pointed directly at a car full of U.S. citizens, ordering everyone out of the vehicle.

Not just the driver.

Every single person in the car, including people in the back seat.

This was a full-vehicle detention of legal observers, at gunpoint, with no immediate threat, and no lawful basis.

That alone is an excessive and illegal use of force.

The agents then demand that the people filming produce press credentials, further confirming that agents are illegally denying people their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity…

Because press credentials are not required to film police.

They never have been.

And then, at the very end of the video, the justification for the illegal detainment finally slips out.

An agent admits the stop happened because YESTERDAY they claim these same people “threatened” agents with handguns.

Then the agent’s story changes…

The agent says, “they pulled them out, trying to engage us.”

A member of the press asks, “Pulling out literal guns?”

Then agent’s story changes AGAIN…

“No. Assuming that we were going to do something.”

So, no guns were actually pulled, and no threats were actually made.

The “threat” was that people disclosed they were armed… which is exactly what concealed carry holders are trained to do when law enforcement engages with you.

And then the agent finally admits what this stop is really about.

Saying, “That’s why they are being IDed right now.”

So TODAY, agents illegally stopped a car full of legal observers, at gunpoint, to illegally identify and catalog U.S. citizens…

Because YESTERDAY, those citizens lawfully exercised their Second Amendment rights.

If this doesn’t set off blaring alarm bells for the NRA and anyone who claims to be “pro–Second Amendment,” nothing should.

ICE/Border Patrol agents just used guns, intimidation, and an illegal detention to punish U.S. citizens, after the fact, for lawful gun ownership.

That is government retaliation.

And it’s exactly what the Second Amendment was supposed to protect people from.

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ICE don't care about no stinking courts.

Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail

Raguse, who was in the courtroom, reported that Le said it was like “pulling teeth” to get the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department to follow court orders.

She made the remarks after U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered the government to explain why it had not followed court orders in immigration proceedings, including not releasing several immigrant detainees he had ordered be let out.

Blackwell said in an order this week that the government's "failures" were "alarming" because the government's "persistent noncompliance with orders in this District was extensively detailed just last week," pointing to a decision from Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee. Schiltz wrote that his "patience is at an end" and that the government had failed to comply with "dozens of court orders."

Le told Blackwell during the court hearing on Tuesday that “it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected,” KARE reported.

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Ah, consequences.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam ... 22066.html

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ICE don't care about no stinking courts.

Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail

More:

... Julie Le, who is listed in public records as a Department of Homeland Security attorney, had been detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, but an official familiar with the matter told NBC News early Wednesday that Le’s detail was now over in the wake of the comments.

Le, who according to an NBC News review of court records picked up 88 cases in less than a month, expressed frustration at her job during an immigration hearing Tuesday in Minneapolis, where the Trump administration is carrying out a sweeping immigration enforcement operation.

“The system sucks. This job sucks. I wish you could hold me in contempt so that I could get 24 hours of sleep,” Le said, according to reporting by Lou Raguse of NBC affiliate KARE....

She made the remarks after U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered the government to explain why it had not followed court orders in immigration proceedings, including not releasing several immigrant detainees he had ordered be let out....

Judge Jerry W. Blackwell is pretty interesting:

Jerry Wayne Blackwell (born 1962) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Before becoming a judge, he was one of the prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.



Born Mooresville (25 miles north of Charlotte), North Carolina

Education

On a Morehead-Cain Scholarship, Blackwell earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1987.

Tar Heel proud, O Really.

... Notable cases

During his career, Blackwell represented Prince.

In 2020, Blackwell obtained a posthumous pardon of Max Mason, a Black man falsely convicted in Duluth, Minnesota, of raping a white woman in 1920.

Blackwell was a special assistant state attorney general for the prosecution during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd. Blackwell served as a pro bono prosecutor and delivered the opening statement and closing argument for the prosecution. In closing, he said to the jury, "You were told, for example, that Mr. Floyd died because his heart was too big. You heard that testimony. Now having seen all the evidence, having heard all the evidence, you know the truth. And the truth of the matter is that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr. Chauvin's heart was too small."

Federal judicial service

On June 15, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Blackwell to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota ... On July 27, 2022, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On September 15, 2022, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 13–8 vote, Senator Thom Tillis (NC) "passed" on the vote.... On December 7, 2022, his nomination was confirmed by a 51–43 vote....

3 years later he's holding Dementia Don's ICE and DoJ to account.

Time to start jailing officials for contempt.

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Journalist Don Lemon has been arrested after he covered a Minnesota church protest

Got any pics of him taken away in handcuffs?







Organized participant

[Vrede too]

Ah, consequences.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam ... 22066.html

Pam Bondi Hit by Fresh Humiliation as Minnesota Prosecutors Quit in Droves

GOU.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota prosecutorsGO

... The mass exit was triggered in part by the DOJ’s refusal to open a civil rights investigation into the killings of U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by immigration agents in January.

The departing attorneys had also voiced their concerns to U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen about the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent state and local investigators from probing the killings as potential homicides, and about orders to rush through charges against defendants accused of assaulting federal officers without conducting a full investigation.

The attorneys also thought they should consider whether the agents’ conduct contributed to the encounters.

“This was the ultimate example of selective prosecution,” a retiring attorney told the Star Tribune.


More than a dozen federal prosecutors have left after the DOJ refused to investigate the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal immigration agents.

Fewer than 20 attorneys are staffing Minnesota’s entire criminal division, compared to at least 50 attorneys working on criminal cases in prior years, according to the Star Tribune.

The DOJ has had to transfer attorneys in from other states, many of whom are less experienced than the attorneys who left.

That means prosecutors will likely be forced to focus on easier cases that can be handled by less experienced lawyers, former prosecutors said.

In the meantime, the office has been overwhelmed by hundreds of wrongful detention cases filed by immigrants who are being held in ICE custody.

The Trump administration is enforcing a mandatory detention policy, despite judges striking down the rule in more than 1,600 cases, Politico reported last month.

What part of "illegal" does MAGA not understand?

... During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last month, Bondi fumed at the first group of federal prosecutors who chose to quit rather than open a criminal investigation into Good’s widow, Becca, after her 37-year-old’s wife was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross....

GOU.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota prosecutorsGO

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Trump's and Supsalemgr America.

BREAKING: ICE agents are now threatening to violently assault U.S. citizens for the crime of sitting in their own car, in a parking lot…

Yes. Literally that.

ICE agents are now claiming U.S. citizens are not allowed to be in the same parking lot as them.

In the video, you can hear an agent approach a person sitting quietly in their car and announce that he is ICE, and that other ICE agents are also in the parking lot…

Then the agent immediately issues what he calls his “one and only warning.”

The person responds, “I was just on the phone.”

The agent responds, “No. No you’re not.”

The agent then escalates to a direct threat of violence, saying…

“This is your one and only warning. I catch you here again, I’m yanking you out of that fucking car because you’re taking pictures on your little GoPro.”

So, to be clear… a U.S. citizen is being threatened with assault not for impeding, not for interfering, not for committing any crime…

…but for having a dash cam.

The agent then adds, “If anything happens to our vehicles, or anybody in here, I’m coming straight for you.”

Then more threats…

“I will yank you out of that fucking car, and I will fucking put charges on you.”

Charges for what? He never says. Because there are none.

And then he admits the quiet part out loud…

“I’ll put you in the fucking domestic terrorists app.”

A federal agent threatening to label a U.S. citizen a “domestic terrorist” for sitting in a car while having a dash cam.

And then the agent illegally orders the U.S. citizen to “get the fuck out” of the parking lot and tells him he is not allowed to return.

To break that all down… an ICE agent used intimidation, retaliation, and threats of violence against a U.S. citizen for exercising their First Amendment rights, and existing in a public space.

And then banned the U.S. citizen from returning to the public space.

So, just to be absolutely clear…

The Trump administration is conditioning the public to obey masked federal agents, without questions and without rights.

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Trump's and Supsalemgr America.

BREAKING: ICE agents are now threatening to violently assault U.S. citizens for the crime of sitting in their own car, in a parking lot…

Yes. Literally that.

ICE agents are now claiming U.S. citizens are not allowed to be in the same parking lot as them.

In the video, you can hear an agent approach a person sitting quietly in their car and announce that he is ICE, and that other ICE agents are also in the parking lot…

Then the agent immediately issues what he calls his “one and only warning.”

The person responds, “I was just on the phone.”

The agent responds, “No. No you’re not.”

The agent then escalates to a direct threat of violence, saying…

“This is your one and only warning. I catch you here again, I’m yanking you out of that fucking car because you’re taking pictures on your little GoPro.”

So, to be clear… a U.S. citizen is being threatened with assault not for impeding, not for interfering, not for committing any crime…

…but for having a dash cam.

The agent then adds, “If anything happens to our vehicles, or anybody in here, I’m coming straight for you.”

Then more threats…

“I will yank you out of that fucking car, and I will fucking put charges on you.”

Charges for what? He never says. Because there are none.

And then he admits the quiet part out loud…

“I’ll put you in the fucking domestic terrorists app.”

A federal agent threatening to label a U.S. citizen a “domestic terrorist” for sitting in a car while having a dash cam.

And then the agent illegally orders the U.S. citizen to “get the fuck out” of the parking lot and tells him he is not allowed to return.

To break that all down… an ICE agent used intimidation, retaliation, and threats of violence against a U.S. citizen for exercising their First Amendment rights, and existing in a public space.

And then banned the U.S. citizen from returning to the public space.

So, just to be absolutely clear…

The Trump administration is conditioning the public to obey masked federal agents, without questions and without rights.

Maybe you should complain to your congress person.

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Trump's and Supsalemgr America.

https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2019775978797510746

That sucks. I would stay, take the bust, get released, sue and win.

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Greg Bovino Reportedly Kicked Out of Bar for Being Greg Bovino


Minneapolis

A sidelined Border Patrol commander was reportedly tossed from a Las Vegas bar for being Greg Bovino.

The Daily Beast reported on Thursday that the former public face of President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown was at Bottled Blonde in Sin City on Jan. 30 after being demoted and withdrawn from Minneapolis. In a statement to the Beast, bar management said staff told Bovino, who was seen drinking wine with several unidentified associates, was asked to leave the establishment in order to maintain patrons’ safety.

Employee safety too?

... “Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons.” ...

He got deported from the bar.

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Greg Bovino Reportedly Kicked Out of Bar for Being Greg Bovino


Minneapolis

A sidelined Border Patrol commander was reportedly tossed from a Las Vegas bar for being Greg Bovino.

The Daily Beast reported on Thursday that the former public face of President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown was at Bottled Blonde in Sin City on Jan. 30 after being demoted and withdrawn from Minneapolis. In a statement to the Beast, bar management said staff told Bovino, who was seen drinking wine with several unidentified associates, was asked to leave the establishment in order to maintain patrons’ safety.

Employee safety too?

... “Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons.” ...

He got deported from the bar.

It appears he was asked to leave and he did. I say his rights were violated.

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He got deported from the bar.

I had to look, something I very very rarely do.

SoupySales believes in business freedom, unless it's a RW jackboot's ox that's gored.

It appears he was asked to leave and he did. I say his rights were violated.

Fta:

"... As a private business, Bottled Blonde reserves the right to refuse service to any patron at its discretion,” the venue told the Beast in a statement....

Perhaps SoupySales can enlighten us as to which part of the Constitution requires access to bars for everyone.

[O Really]

Yep, it's just like the poorly-named "employment at will"
A patron can be tossed for any reason or no reason as long as it's not specifically an illegal reason. Personally, I'd like to see a world in which the current bunch of ICE goons aren't welcome in any restaurant, hotel, entertainment venue or dog wash.

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Yep, it's just like the poorly-named "employment at will"
A patron can be tossed for any reason or no reason as long as it's not specifically an illegal reason. Personally, I'd like to see a world in which the current bunch of ICE goons aren't welcome in any restaurant, hotel, entertainment venue or dog wash.

Jan. 8 St. Paul, Bovino's goons:

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

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Two gays walk in a wedding cake bakery.