Chapter 1: What recent events have escalated tensions in Minnesota regarding ICE?
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Chapter 2: How are local communities responding to federal actions in Minnesota?
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Chapter 3: What firsthand accounts have emerged from the recent hearings?
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Unfortunately for some folks in our country, they are under a tyrannical threat right now. They are being, I believe, abused.
and discriminated against and manhandled and terrorized terrorized is the best word and that's the folks who are in minneapolis minnesota and so are just in the minnesota area minneapolis st paul and then it's also happening in other places like california etc i just want to show you Some of the there were folks who spoke out at a hearing.
We had someone on from Minnesota who was part of the Minnesota Freedom Fund.
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Chapter 4: What specific incidents highlight the violence of ICE operations?
His name is Eliza Daris. He's going to join us in just a moment. But I want to show you what happened at that hearing that he talked about this morning on the show. Some of the testimony. And then Eliza is back with us to give us a breakdown of what happened. Here it is.
I immediately started repeating over and over again, I'm a citizen, I'm a citizen, I'm a citizen. But the agent did not stop to look at my ID. A second ICE agent entered the restaurant. To there, they dragged me outside and put me into a headlock on the ground. I repeated, I'm a citizen. I have an ID. The agent kept saying, that don't matter. That don't matter.
When I was inside my cell, I heard wailing, screaming, crying, begging, and pleading from women, men, and children.
Chapter 5: How has the community reacted to the testimonies shared at the hearings?
alongside that visceral anguish was the small talk banter and laughter from the federal agents outside ourselves clearly desensitized to the deep and audible pain right in front of their eyes and so those were just some of the stories some of the testimony at that hearing
Let's bring in now Eliza Derris. He's the executive director of the Minnesota Freedom Fund. And later we're going to be joined with an activist, a lawyer, and the former president of the Minneapolis NAACP. She's going to join us in a bit. And then an independent journalist from Minnesota who's been documenting all of this. A lot of the footage that we're getting is from So, stand by for them.
Eliza Derris is with us. Eliza, Mr. Derris, thank you so much for joining us again. You were in that hearing and you heard some of this testimony. What did you hear? It was really difficult to hear some of the testimony because I felt like I was reliving, you know, much of the same trauma that I've experienced as a frontline organizer and as a frontline advocate.
We had testifiers that, you know, run the gauntlet from governmental officials, the mayor of Minneapolis, the attorney general. We had a police chief.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the federal government's actions on local citizens?
But then we had a number of community members, some of whom you just heard from, were brutalized as American citizens, screaming repeatedly I am a citizen. I am a citizen. I am a citizen. That wasn't enough. This same person actually had, I believe, his passport on him. They would not look. They refused to look at it.
They took him out of his home anyway and took him down to the Whipple Building, which is the federal building, anyway, after brutalizing him. And then we had several other testifiers who spoke as well in terms of some of the brutality that they experienced. One person
gave the example that without any lawful order, without any order at all, she was told to get out of her vehicle, her and a companion, and they tear gassed into the ventilation of the vehicle and eventually began bursting out of the windows to eventually remove them all while being silent and eventually remove and detain them. This was some of the testimony that came from the community.
And frankly, the representatives and the senators that came, it was about 30 of them. Some of them interchanged seats.
Chapter 7: What solutions are being proposed by community leaders and activists?
So when one left, others came because it wasn't enough to accommodate all of them at one time. We were probably able to accommodate maybe 20 or more at a time. So there were many more that must have been waiting in a wing somewhere and they were interchangeable. But I could see the faces.
of disgust, of horror, of disappointment, of sadness, as these stories came across the microphones to our federally elected officials. And when they spoke, they spoke with great passion. They were appreciative of our resistance to this tyranny.
to this unchecked, unmitigated, violent tyranny that's coming from the federal government right now, particularly through the hands of the Department of Homeland Security. And I was appreciative of hearing them tell us, lift up the resistance that we are giving as community members. We don't have guns. We don't have battering rams. We don't have beer cats. We don't have full body armor.
What we have is a belief in our community. We have a belief in each other.
Chapter 8: What future actions are being planned to address these issues?
We have a belief in the Constitution that is supposed to equally protect all of us. We believe in this. And because we believe so, so ardently, we are willing to put our bodies, our careers, we're willing to put everything on the line. And I was appreciative that they lifted that up. You gave a rousing speech. If we can get that, producers, I want to show some of it.
And just let me know if you have it. But you gave a rousing speech. What was the meeting that you spoke at? This was a press conference actually called by Nekima Libby Armstrong, who is one of the frontline organizers, one of our staunchest organizers. She's going to join us a bit later. She's joining us in a couple of minutes.
Yeah, so she called a press conference and she called a number of community leaders, directly impacted people, to come down to the government center and to raise our voices about our experiences and what our expectation was in the face of mere silence from our elected, locally elected officials. And so this press conference
In terms of what I wanted to talk about at the press conference, this was the outcome. Well, let me, I want to, yeah, today I think you got an answer to what you said at that press conference, but I want to play what you played at the press conference earlier in the week, and then I want to see if you got any satisfaction today. Here it is.
We can expect nothing to come from the federal government, so we need... are local authorities to stand up or tell us you are abandoning us. Tell us you are going to allow federal tyranny. We're talking about murder. Come on. Say
you're going to leave us at the hands of a federal government that is unchecked that has no checks no balances tell us that you're going to allow them to murder us and do nothing that's right then we can make a decision of who we need in those seats to protect and defend us so what does that leave
It leaves the state. I'm here today to call upon our local officials to stand up and do something. Stand up and do something.
Why did we send you here? If the county attorney won't prosecute, if the attorney general won't prosecute, if the governor won't order an investigation, if the sheriff won't conduct an investigation, if the police chief won't conduct an investigation, and then if the BCA this morning will release a statement and say the feds told us to stay out of it. And then they say, okay.
We'll stay out of it. When have they ever done that? We locally have the authority. to investigate. We expect this county attorney in this county right here in Minneapolis to bring charges. We expect this attorney general office to support any investigative needs, any charges that may be brought. The support coming from the top is what we need because we will get justice nowhere else.
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