Jennie Taer
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Yeah, well, you know, we've been out with ICE in Minneapolis on the ride along with them and we saw just the chaos unfold the second we went down there.
Yeah, well, you know, we've been out with ICE in Minneapolis on the ride along with them and we saw just the chaos unfold the second we went down there.
So just to give you an idea is we started out the day going to the ICE office where agitators were already outside.
So just to give you an idea is we started out the day going to the ICE office where agitators were already outside.
The second any of those vehicles came out, anytime ICE officers were going out to make arrests, there was what they call the spotter standing on the corner.
The second any of those vehicles came out, anytime ICE officers were going out to make arrests, there was what they call the spotter standing on the corner.
waiting for them, monitoring their movements, reporting things like their license plates, what the cars look like, what those agents and officers look like.
waiting for them, monitoring their movements, reporting things like their license plates, what the cars look like, what those agents and officers look like.
And then the second we were hearing an arrest site, so we were maybe within five blocks of an arrest site, you started to see people just gathering on every street corner.
And then the second we were nearing an arrest site, so we were maybe within five blocks of an arrest site, you started to see people just gathering on every street corner.
And by the time we got to, let's say the apartment complex where one of the arrests they were trying to make was happening,
And by the time we got to, let's say, the apartment complex where one of the arrests they were trying to make was happening,
it was already so loud everyone was already alerted to ice's presence in the area that that target didn't come out that day so this is what they're up against they're up against people who are exposing their whereabouts their locations getting in their way on top of that because as we were leaving we saw a situation unfold that thankfully didn't get
it was already so loud everyone was already alerted to ice's presence in the area that that target didn't come out that day so this is what they're up against they're up against people who are exposing their whereabouts their locations getting in their way on top of that because as we were leaving we saw a situation unfold that thankfully didn't get
as intense as some of these stories we've seen about these shootings, but could have gone that way with those agents trying to deescalate vehicles who were blocking them in the roadway.
as intense as some of these stories we've seen about these shootings, but could have gone that way with those agents trying to deescalate vehicles who were blocking them in the roadway.
So they didn't want them there.
But when they tried to leave, they didn't want them to leave.
So they didn't want them there.
It was very ironic.