Chapter 1: What breaking news is reported at the start of this segment?
Good afternoon, everyone. We come to you with breaking news here on the Don Lemon Show, the Don Lemon Channel, along with one of our friends of the show who has his own channel here, Michael Fanone, also on YouTube. Breaking news, another person has been shot in Minneapolis. Michael Fanone and I have been getting information on it, and we're going to give you some information.
But first, I want to show you what happened. Now, according to reports, MSNOW is reporting that the person is dead. I'll show you the video, and then I'll explain to you the details, at least what we know right now.
Here it is.
Oh, shit. What the fuck?
They killed my... Did they fucking kill that guy? Are you fucking kidding me, dude? Not again. Are you fucking kidding me?
That guy's dead.
Yo, we need people on site. So there is the video. I'm going to get Michael's response, but I just want to tell you just the latest that I have. Federal agents shot a person in Minneapolis, according to the governor. City officials in Minneapolis also said they are aware of the reports of possible shooting involving a federal law enforcement agent.
The incident happened in the area of West 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue and was captured on a video that was posted online that you saw right there. We're working to confirm the additional details, and they're asking the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area. And two intersections, all of that has been they've been blocked off.
And I should tell you that there has been unrest there. I'm going to show you the unrest. But I want to know from a career, a former police officer, Michael Fanone, when you look at that video, what do you see as we see the unrest that's unfolding in Minneapolis? Yeah, I mean, from the limited angle that we have, I mean, it's clearly a very chaotic scene. I mean, you have a number of agents.
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Chapter 2: What details are known about the shooting incident in Minneapolis?
what I understand to be the decedent in this case, the victim. And then there are subsequent shots fired by what appeared to be at least two of the agents that were on the scene, numerous shots, which continued even after it appears that the decedent was motionless. It's disturbing. Again, we don't see the origins of this encounter.
My initial questions are what was their justification for interacting with this individual? These are immigration enforcement officers. They don't have the same police powers that I had as a DC metropolitan police officer. There were some other questionable actions.
At one point, I saw one of the agents beating the individual, it appears in the head, with what I believe was a canister of pepper spray, not a trained law enforcement technique. And again, I never saw a weapon displayed by the individual. It is legal in the state of Minnesota to concealed carry to possess a firearm.
And so I have a lot of questions about this interaction and these agents' actions. And I think one of the most disturbing things is we have a pattern of behavior from ICE and Customs and Border Patrol in which they engage in incredibly aggressive tactics
unconstitutional tactics uh and deadly tactics um as we saw you know just recently with um with the shooting uh death of renee goode uh and you know what's even more disturbing is that um this agency appears to be unaccountable to the american people uh and you know We cannot trust anything that comes from the agents, the agency, or its representatives within the administration.
As we've also seen countless examples at this point of agents and agency supervisors and heads lying both to the American people and in court. Yeah.
Michael, I don't believe that there's any credibility from this administration, whether it's whatever department it is, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, any of it, especially coming from the executive branch, because we know how much Donald Trump lies. And that seems to be the characteristics that the people below him have also inherited.
State officials have confirmed that a man was killed. This is according to... WTIP News saying that state officials have confirmed that a man was killed after being shot by an ICE agent in South Minneapolis on Saturday. The video of the incident shows a group of at least four ICE agents restraining an individual and holding him on the ground.
They appear to hit him with an object several times before an agent shoots the man. The other agent stepped back and the individual on the ground remains motionless. Additional gunshots are heard and one agent appears to continue to shoot in the direction of the man. The man was transported from the scene and Minneapolis police, the Minneapolis police chief confirmed that he has died.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of ICE's actions during the unrest?
Americans are incredibly, they're angry and they are horrified at what they're seeing play out on a daily basis when it comes to Customs and Border Patrol and ICE and the way that they are being deployed and the way that they are interacting with not only the migrant community, but with American citizens. It's We were talking about this earlier offline.
It is radicalizing everyday Americans, many of whom I've talked to, who are never even political because they recognize the inhumanity of these agents and their actions. And it has a visceral effect. I mean, it is deeply, deeply disturbing.
Police line tape.
Listening now to live coverage in Minnesota after another person was shot and reportedly killed by federal agents there. Let's listen. There is a flashbangs off here in the crowd. You see flashbangs, and there you see the unrest happening there on the ground.
You know, just one thing that strikes me there, I didn't see any actions that would necessitate this deployment of gas and flashbangs, and also it sounds like or looks like pepper balls.
Go, go, go.
No warnings were issued by law enforcement. And now you just see them running out into the crowd and tackling individuals that were protesting their actions. And now they are detaining people and throwing them to the ground. And you see them, look at the person there with the, is that a pepper ball gun? What is that Mike? What are those guns?
It looks like so you can deploy tear gas and pepper ball munitions from the same same weapon systems. I mean, it looks to your left there at the front of the screen. That's a less than lethal 40 millimeter gun that's used for deploying tear gas. I have done nothing at all. My name is Matthew James. Yeah, and this is what happens.
I don't know what this administration thinks they are doing and why they think it is okay to do it. I just don't understand it unless it's the ultimate goal is to make people afraid to go to the polls. They just spray pepper spray directly into the man's face. In November, we're listening to the reporter there. He's saying someone is spraying pepper spray directly into someone's face.
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Chapter 4: How do community leaders respond to the ongoing violence?
So you see, look at the number. And they're out here breaking up the protesters. the thing is is that they wouldn't be in the situation if they were better trained or if they had gotten some permission or cooperation from the state or local officials there elected officials people who that the people of that state and town or municipality elected to represent them
Yeah, no, I'm glad you brought up the training aspect of it. And if you hear from this administration, I think recently they just put out that ICE and Customs and Border Patrol are the best trained law enforcement agencies in the world. In the world.
There's this misconception that law enforcement in this country is interchangeable, that every agency receives the same type of training, but more importantly, that they engage in the same type of activities and enforcement on a daily basis. Simply not true. Law enforcement agencies have incredibly... different missions, different focuses.
And while we might receive what I typically refer to in training as a familiarization in different types of techniques, it's not put into practice on a daily basis. And anyone who works a job knows that whatever training they may have received initially, it's what you do on a daily basis that that really is the on the job training is what's most important.
ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, they have a completely different mission from state and local law enforcement. They are not traditional policing agencies. They have limited enforcement powers. They don't have the ability to conduct a traffic stop. They can't enforce state and local law. They can only enforce federal law in this particular agency.
ICE and CBP in their mission can only enforce immigration law. But yet we see them constantly engaged in these unlawful encounters with American citizens. It is not lawful to demand proof of citizenship from an American citizen. And
If you don't have at the very least reasonable suspicion to believe that someone who may very well be undocumented is in fact undocumented, you don't have the right to demand paperwork from them. But yet we see this agency. going out on a daily basis, interacting with the public in an incredibly aggressive and in many cases antagonistic behavior.
I was just watching the video that I think came out, I believe it was yesterday, in which there's a woman who's simply filming ICE agents in a parking lot. And an ICE agent starts taking down her information. And she says, well, what are you taking my information for? And he's like, well, we've got this neat database that we're collecting all your names.
And you're going to learn very soon that you are now considered a domestic terrorist. That's how this administration views people that disagree, not only with its policies, but also with its unlawful practices. You're a domestic terrorist. Let's watch this, Mike. Some of the protesters trying to throw the tear gas canisters back at the federal agents. Justice, endless, endless use of force.
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Chapter 5: What actions can local leaders take to protect citizens from ICE?
I got it on video, the Minneapolis Police Department assistantizing. I got it on video. the Minneapolis State Police sits on ice. There's more that these government officials can do than nothing. I understand you can't solve the whole problem, but here's didn't do anything and here's can't do anything. There's got to be something between that.
I want to know, Mike, you're a former law enforcement. What do you say to that? I mean, listen, we're in uncharted waters here, certainly in my lifetime. And I can recognize the difficulty of the position of state, local law enforcement leaders. That being said, you know, these are not this is not a one off.
We're seeing a pattern of behavior here that's playing out in city after city, state after state across the country. At the very least, other states and local leaders who have been placed on Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's target list should be engaged in emergency meetings right now, at this moment, talking about a plan to protect their citizens
from ICE and Customs and Border Patrol if they are deployed to their city. I mean, what this mayor can do, what state local law enforcement can do is exactly that, deploy to these operational areas, monitor what's happening, and protect the citizens.
And if that puts them against ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, I mean, listen, you're either gonna stand idly by and allow American citizens to die,
or you are going to intervene uh and i yes i understand exactly what that means deploy the national guard yes i understand exactly what that means that means that there may be a potential for a green on green scenario a scenario in which uh you know national guard troops are um standing you know across from active duty military personnel.
There may be a situation in which federal law enforcement agencies are standing across from state, local, and municipal law enforcement agencies, but it really is that bad. That's the place where we are today, America.
I'm just letting you know, and I'm speaking not as somebody who's looking at this from a political standpoint, but from someone who spent two decades in law enforcement and can easily and honestly recognize when law enforcement agencies are acting without accountability, unlawfully, unconstitutionally, and are targeting not just migrants. That's not what this is about.
This is about targeting Donald Trump's political adversaries. right down to the individual voters who had the wherewithal to stand up to him in the last election and the election cycle before that. This is all about political retribution.
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Chapter 6: How are community members responding to the recent ICE shootings?
And maybe to a lesser extent, it's Stephen Miller living out his perverse fantasy of an ethnic cleansing of America. But we're at that point now where law enforcement and National Guard troops need to be called in to intervene on the citizens behalf to protect them and keep them safe. Otherwise, the citizens are going to do it themselves. Yeah. And that's what's happening.
And that's what I've been saying. I don't know if you guys have been following Mike, but I've been saying something really terrible is going to happen here. Someone is going to end up, another person is going to end up dead, whether it's one of these agents that are out there or goons that are out there are another citizen.
And we see, we, we see what, what happened, but people are taking actions into their own hands. And look, I agree with you, Jolly. I think that the, the, I agree with you in some sense that I think that the local state, uh,
officials should be out there or elected officials, whether it's a congressman, senator, mayor, governor, or whatever it is, they should all be out there saying you're not going to, at least at some point, trying to protect the citizens or showing them that they're standing with them on the front lines. I do believe that, but I also think that they need to be strategic about what they do.
And I find the governor for me has been, look, the mayor doesn't really have that much power. But for me, I think there is some onus on the governor to be more strategic about what he's doing because it seems that he is just sort of stuck right now. And he appears weak to me. I don't know if that's fair or not, but that's just how I feel. Listen, okay, let me say this.
Again, I want to reiterate, I understand the limited options the mayor has. I'm not trying to be overly harsh on the mayor. No, no one is saying that, Jolly.
We're just talking.
No, no, but for anybody else, I'm being realistic. Like Michael said, we're in uncharted waters.
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Chapter 7: What emotions are expressed by the protesters during the march?
Listen, just like everybody else, this is my first civil war. So I don't 100% know what the answer is. I agree with Michael's analysis. I said the same thing about a week or so ago on a video uploaded to my channel in which I said, You know, if Walls deploys the National Guard to protect the citizenry and then Trump deploys the federal forces, I see green on green. That's what I see.
Or blue on blue, we call it in the Army. But the point is, I don't know where that goes. I don't know how that looks. And I agree with you, Don. There has to be some strategic approach here. But I'm going to simply offer another perspective here that I think more people need to consider.
the only ones fucking taking strategic fucking positions, the only ones who are fucking biding our fucking time and putting our tongue in our mouth and fucking...
It's us.
It's the people not escalating it. The escalation has continually come from the federal government. The escalation has continually come from the White House. It has continually come from Kristi Noem. It has continually come from Pam Bondi and J.D. Vance and Stephen Miller and Donald Trump.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of the upside-down American flag in the protest?
That's where the escalation continues to come because they continue to authorize these thug goons who don't have the training, who don't have the temperament, who don't have the experience to be out here in the streets with not only less than deadly force, but deadly force. They continue to use it.
Don, right now while we're having a conversation, I received a text message from a citizen on the street in Minneapolis who was on the ground when it happened, has a screenshot of the pre-shooting debate between the cops. Have them send it to us. Have them send it to us. We'll put it up. There's a reason I'm not throwing it up right now, but I want to show you, I want to say this.
I was already notified there's a better angle of this shooting that will be circulating the internet soon enough. The people that took it wanted to get to a safe place so they wouldn't get harassed by ICE. Just so everybody knows, ICE is out here conducting unauthorized searches of your home and residence without warrants signed by judges. So people are worried about that.
But in the screenshot that I just received on my phone, you can see the victim holding his phone as he argues with Border Patrol.
So if the screenshot I just received is indicative of the other video we're about to see come public, then what we're going to see is somebody holding a cell phone, observing ICE, and just because he was holding a weapon legally, they attacked him and tried to disarm him.
Now, to all the people that have been screaming Second Amendment tyrannical government over my dead body, all the NRA members out there, the government just attacked the legal gun owner and tried to disarm him. Do you know where we are now? Yeah. I want to listen in on this and then just to hear what they're saying here. Jolly, I know that you're upset.
You have the frustration because you've been out there and you've seen what happened. Let's listen. A lot of people out here protest the killing of another person in Minneapolis. Hey, Don. Yeah, go ahead, Mike. I got to jump. Go ahead, Mike. My kids are forming a mutiny. Mike, thank you. Can I close out real quick? So Michael Fanone and Jolly here, both of them have been fighting.
Michael, I also just want to talk to you about the week that you've had. If you can just share with us. The guy talking, see the guy talking, see that guy talking right there. Always been a police shirt. Yeah. That's Minneapolis resident Cortez Rice. He was very close to George Floyd. He was a very prominent, outspoken figure right after the George Floyd murder. His name is Cortez Rice.
He was a really close friend of George Floyd. I'm just bringing that up to show you the fact that this is the same city where all that happened, the same city we've seen police brutality, and now look where we are five years later. Just some juxtaposition there. That's Cortez Rice talking. Thank you, Jolly. Michael, look, this goes into...
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