Adam Serwer

you know, bringing food or patrolling or observing or going to protests.

You know, it's people from all walks of life.

It's moms, it's dads, it's all kinds of people.

They're just normal, regular people who don't like the federal government coming in and trying to kidnap their neighbors.

You know, I think what's so impressive about this is that it's a kind of civic resistance that is designed to deal with the specific conditions that are being imposed on them by the federal government.

And what are some of the tactics they're using in response to ICE in their communities?

You know, what you have in Minneapolis is a lot of people have been, you know, going to legal trainings where they explain, you know, where the lines are, you know, that recording law enforcement is a First Amendment right.

They're allowed to do it and how to do it safely.

Unfortunately, there's no way to be 100 percent safe, especially when you have masked armed men who have been told by the government that they have immunity.

These people who are following ICE around, typically what will happen is you will have two people in a car, one who is listening to a dispatcher who is telling people where ICE might be located.

And sometimes a van or a sport utility vehicle with out-of-state plates will drive by and they maintain a database of ICE verified license plates and they'll run the plate.

The co-pilot will run the plate and then the driver will follow the van if it's an ICE van.

And they'll start honking or blowing their whistles to make sure that everybody knows that ice is nearby.

And generally what happens is that ice will eventually give up and go back to Whipple, which is their staging area in the Twin Cities.

But sometimes these encounters escalate into confrontations, as we saw with Goode and with Preddy.

Well, it's difficult because I'm an opinion journalist, so I'm allowed to say what I think.

But most media outlets and the sort of post-World War II objectivity that is the culture at most mainstream media outlets, it's not really suited to a federal government that blatantly lies about verifiable facts.

Every government spins.

Every government lies.

That in itself is not unusual.