Two masked men could be seen behind the tinted windows of the SUV. The vehicle, parked on a small residential street in Minneapolis-Saint Paul on Friday, January 16, belonged to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal immigration police known by its acronym ICE. Then the commotion began: despite the bitter cold and heavy, falling snow, neighbors came out of their homes, pointed the vehicle out to passersby, and shouted at the officers inside: “Get the hell out of here, you bunch of Nazis.” A woman parked her car across the street to block their exit for several minutes. “They’re targeting a family that lives in the neighborhood,” another neighbor said.
Word spread through the many messaging groups dedicated to monitoring the activities of ICE that have sprung up across Minnesota in recent days. More residents arrived, armed with whistles. Inside one of the vehicles, an agent took photos of those present. Another made an obscene gesture with his canister of tear gas. The standoff lasted two hours. The agents eventually left.
Such has been everyday life in Minneapolis and neighboring Saint Paul since December 2025, when the Twin Cities began living under Operation Metro Surge, the deployment of 2,000 federal immigration officers. Since the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother shot dead at the wheel of her car by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on January 7, something new has been taking shape in the frozen air of Minnesota. Residents have been organizing, protesting, tracking the officers and resisting with whistles. Reporters from media across the country are there, driving around the streets, on the lookout for ongoing operations.
The video of Good’s death, which more than 80% of Americans have seen, proved to be a turning point. The public has not been convinced by the administration’s attempt to portray the mother as a “domestic terrorist” who allegedly tried to run over the officer with her car: 53% of people surveyed by YouGov believed the shooting was not justified, compared to 28% who approved of it.
compared to 28% who approved of it
Nearly 1 out of every 3 people in the USA is a fucking psychopath.
Those are very similar to the percentage of voters in the last few elections who said they would vote for Trump no matter what. 20 to 30 percent of America is beyond salvation.
60 years of propaganda masquerading under the banner of legitimate News organizations will do that to a population.
Being told that they can have their base desires without deep consideration, that the people from which they would take what they want aren’t really people, or are beneath consideration for various reasons, is a hell of a drug. It’s the kind of state in which pretty people get to live, offered to the ugly masses. Combine that with overlords who keep those masses in a state of struggling to survive, and you have an army ready to do as you command. It’s fucking insidious.
Thank Republicans for that. There is no more fairness in the news
What’s ironic is these are the same people always yelling we don’t need gun control we need more mental health help for people, and yet these are the people who need mental health help and their guns taken from them because they’re a danger to themselves and others the most.
And the GOP cuts funding for mental health services at every opportunity
It’s much closer to 1/4 than 1/3. It still sucks, but those aren’t good odds in a fight.
If you look at eligible voters, it’s about 1/3 for Trump, 1/3 for Harris, and 1/3 not showing up… but with single digit percents moving those thirds up and down a hair to give Trump an edge.
I’m talking about the 28% in the poll in the actual article.
I agree it’s a depressingly high number, but 28% support for this bullshit specifically, it’s surprisingly good for this shithole country.
That’s not the right way to interpret these polls. Many people aren’t answering the question literally. They’re interpreting it to mean “Do you still approve of Trump’s deportation policy, despite everything?” and they’re saying yes to that. (It’s a reasonable interpretation.) People who really are happy about the killing do exist and they’re disproportionately loud online but they’re not 28% of the population.
Nearly 1 out of every 3 people in the USA is a fucking psychopath.
They’re interpreting it to mean “Do you still approve of Trump’s deportation policy, despite everything?” and they’re saying yes to that.
Did he fucking stutter?
It’s the Obama/Alan Keys rule: no matter how awful the opponent, 28% will vote for them.
About 30% of adult Americans voted for trump in 2024.
…and I’m sure that same 30% would vote for him in 2028 given the chance. They literally have chosen him as their infallible God-Emperor even though he’s the most fallible motherfucker alive.
motherkiddiefucker
Yes. I have a family member where I’ve shown them 4-5 angles and a frame by frame breakdown. They stopped saying she tried to run over the man, but they keep saying she deserved it and was asking for it.
I genuinely hate them for it. I’m so goddamn ashamed of people like this.
I am so sorry that you have family like this. I may be annoyed with my family a lot, but they’re at least reasonable people who see the sickness that is happening and are just as disgusted with it as we are. I literally cannot even imagine struggling with family who thought this was deserved somehow.
So far, society and technology have been advanced primarily by greed stemming from evolutionary drives gone haywire. Intellectualism and progressivism are anomalies that have struggled to survive in a world still dominated by senseless, brutal hegemony. We need to fight to keep our flame from going out, to preserve ourselves and our ideals until the rest of humanity catches up to, well, humanity.
I’m not shocked.
Minnesotans have the highest voter turnout, have the second hours per capita of volunteers, has a rich history of immigration, and in general neighborhoods, churches, and other ‘third places’ are both welcoming and tight knit.
Hell there was a massive “socialist” co-op movement here in the 70s and 80s that had a huge and lasting impression on our politics.
Even our conservatives in the past tended to be the ‘libertarian’ type of conservatives, though of course the national circus has been having an influence since around 2015.
But even to this day polls show that identity politics don’t play as well in Minnesota as they appear to on the national stage. People don’t care about what happens in your home (perhaps to a fault), but if you visibly contribute to the community even in a small way (shoveling snow for or with a neighbor is the very true trope), you become one of us.
The massive protests following George Floyd’s death proved that Minnesota is a place where normal people will take real political action when they are pushed.
All this in mind, I think ICE was always going to fail here. But the death of Renee Nicole Good has dumped gasoline onto the fire and is turning what would have been a quiet failure they would have just stopped talking about nationally into an explosive situation.
I don’t know where this ends. I don’t want Minnesota to bleed any more then it already has, but I know we will stand firm.
No one expects the Minnesotan disposition.
Did the 28% who approved of the shooting watch the videos???
I guess we’ve found the basket of deplorables.
There are edited videos that show him getting hit. These people think those are the real ones and the real ones are fake.
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