LIVE STOP TRUMP'S ICE TERROR Protests as Trump DOJ TARGETS Protesters | LIVE From Minneapolis

What this episode is about

Protests are escalating in Minneapolis as demonstrators gather outside the Whipple Federal Building to oppose the Trump administration's increasing crackdown on the city and its residents, particularly in response to the deadly shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The protests, fueled by outrage over ongoing violence and federal occupation tactics, highlight a growing resistance against the administration's oppressive actions and the potential for further governmental overreach.

Key takeaways

• Renee Good's story underscores the tragic human cost of militarized policing in American cities.
• America's communities become battlegrounds when federal agents patrol streets like combat zones—who really feels safe?
• The Trump administration is not just governing; it's curating a reality show of community unrest and enforcement.
• Protests evolve when people realize they must defend their neighborhoods from their own government—civil resistance redefined.
• Coverage continuity reveals that media often parachutes into tragedies, but community stories demand deeper engagement.

Who speaks in this episode?

• JT Saskcowski (Host) · 1 h 9 min speaking
• Diane to Nyers (Guest) · 20 min speaking
• Keith Ellison (Guest) · 10 min speaking
• Morsa (Guest) · 5 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 10:00: Border Patrol, Operation Metro Surge, Operation Midway Blitz
2. 10:00 – 20:00: Henipin County Sheriff's Office, Diane to Nyers, Border Patrol, Fort Snelling
3. 30:00 – 40:00: Border Patrol, Henipin County Sheriff's Office
4. 40:00 – 50:00: Henipin County Sheriff's Office
5. 1:00:00 – 1:10:00: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
6. 1:10:00 – 1:20:00: Operation Metro Surge, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
7. 1:20:00 – 1:30:00: Border Patrol, Indivisible
8. 1:30:00 – 1:38:33: Border Patrol, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Notable quotes from "LIVE STOP TRUMP'S ICE TERROR Protests as Trump DOJ TARGETS Protesters | LIVE From Minneapolis"

• Because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, surrounded by ICE agents who are not given enough training in this country, who are armed to the teeth and set loose on American cities, specifically whatever blue city of the month the.

  about ICE · at 2:47

• Incentivize more of it by putting continued pressure on these communities by putting militarized police forces in the form of ICE, Border Patrol, and other Department of Homeland Security agents in these neighborhoods.

  about Border Patrol · at 4:23

• Detention Center. It was a public black site. It was where ICE and Border Patrol in that community while Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration crackdown in Chicago was…

  about Operation Midway Blitz · at 9:12

• These fortifications here outside of the building. And I want to point out who's taking control of security here. That is the Henipin County Sheriff's Office.

  about Henipin County Sheriff's Office · at 11:04

• The light or the camera over at the track. Okay. So, it's on it's documented what happened. So, I'm filing a complaint with Henipin County and the ACLU against this guy and I'm going to see what I can do to get him thrown off the force.

  about ACLU · at 14:42

• It is Martin Luther King's holiday today and I think that Martin Luther King would want us to be out here standing in solidarity. And I'll say that Martin Luther King and a.

  about Martin Luther King Jr. Day · at 1:09:01

• Cover up and we have to denounce it and the whole world should denounce it. And so we're going to be in court on January 23rd to stop this Operation Metro Surge. And we're…

  about Operation Metro Surge · at 1:13:49

• Since we left Chicago or this morning, we've met with representatives from Indivisible in Wisconsin, like right on the border where they're getting hit in those small little…

  about Indivisible · at 1:28:20

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Diane to Nyers — Person · Protester interviewee / eyewitness claimant · 1 mention · first at 13:40
  Provides first-person allegations of being shoved/assaulted by Hennepin County deputies and describes prior crowd-control violence; frames local-federal collaboration and calls for legal complaints.
• JT — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• ICE — Company · Case study · 11 mentions
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency involved in operations and incidents described in the podcast.
• Border Patrol — Company · Case study · 8 mentions · first at 4:31
  Federal agency involved in the operations and incidents described in the podcast.
• Henipin County Sheriff's Office — Company · Case study · 5 mentions · first at 11:09
  Local law enforcement agency involved in managing protests and providing security for federal operations.
• ACLU — Company · Referenced organization · 2 mentions
  Civil liberties organization mentioned in the context of legal actions and support for protesters.
• Indivisible — Company · 1 mention · first at 1:28:25

Places & events

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Event · Contextual event · 3 mentions · first at 1:09:01
  Federal holiday providing context for the timing and significance of the protests.
• Operation Metro Surge — Event · Core topic · 4 mentions · first at 3:34
  Federal operation in Minneapolis that is a central focus of the protests and coverage.
• Operation Midway Blitz — Event · Referenced event · 1 mention · first at 9:18
  Previous federal operation in Chicago mentioned for comparison to current events in Minneapolis.
• Fort Snelling — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 10:58
  Historical fort and current location of federal operations mentioned in the podcast.
  And of course, coincidentally, the Whipple Federal Building, and perhaps ironically, is located within Fort Snelling, which is already a federal government fort. But you see it…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:03 All right, good evening everyone. My name is JT Saskcowski with Status Coup. I am reporting live in conjunction with the Midas Touch Network outside of the Whipple Federal Building just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. now many weeks in fact more than a month into the Trump Trump administration's occupation and ramp up of its occupation occupation and brutalization of the people here in the Twin Cities area. I want to welcome you back with us. Want to thank our crews who while I was away were continuing to hold down the fort here and report out what the Trump administration was doing. I took a few days break to spend some time with my wife and my newborn daughter, but I'm now back here in the Twin Cities area reporting and bringing you these live looks of what it's like here on the ground in the Twin Cities as the Trump administration applies more pressure, presses its thumb, presses its heel into

1:01 the people here of the Twin Cities area, ratcheting up the pressure, trying to force this city either into capitulation or to break and to give the Trump administration some kind of excuse to either invoke the insurrection act or otherwise crack down further on this city and on more cities across the country. What you're looking at here is the protesters who have gathered again in the ongoing demonstrations that have happened here outside of the Whipple Federal Building and have been going on here now for weeks. These demonstrations certainly grew in intensity after Renee Good's killing. And that's a name that I want to try and center in our coverage tonight.

1:54 Because as the events go on here in Minneapolis, as more and more days are put between when Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. And today, as more days pass, it'll become easier and easier to focus on the latest atrocity committed by the Trump administration, the latest use of force, the latest raid that happened, the latest developments, and we're going to talk about some of those developments out here in just a minute. But what I don't want to get lost in that coverage is the fact that there is a person from the Twin Cities area here, a member of this community who won't be going home to her kids, who won't be going home to her wife the way I was able to over the last few days, the way that you are able to at the end of every workday or at the end of school. That's a luxury that we have that Renee Good does not because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, surrounded by ICE agents

2:55 who are not given enough training in this country, who are armed to the teeth and set loose on American cities, specifically whatever blue city of the month the Trump administration wants to grind its heel into. And lately that's been the Twin Cities and it's Somali community and it's Hispanic communities that have been particularly victimized by this administration. If you've appreciated the coverage that we have brought to you on the ground here amid the cold over these last several weeks going back before Renee Good's killing. We've been on the ground here nearly continuously since the beginning of December since operation metro surge first got underway here. We didn't start our on the ground coverage with Renee Goods killing. We weren't like a lot of press who parachuted in after the fact. We were here before. We're still here now. And we'll continue to be here to monitor the fallout from everything that happens.

3:50 That's what we do here at Status Coup in partnership with the Midas Touch Network. We continue to cover these stories. When we pick a story, we stay with it. We pick stories because we know that they are important. We see the way that things are developing and we warned about an outcome like what happened to Renee Good being very possible here on the ground as the Trump administration ratcheted up the pressure. It creates it creates the possibility for violence. In fact, the Trump administration seems to be going out of its way to try and incentivize more of it by putting continued pressure on these communities by putting militarized police forces in the form of ICE, Border Patrol, and other Department of Homeland Security agents in these neighborhoods.

4:38 By continuing to do that, it's only ratcheting up the pressure in these communities. And how are people supposed to respond? We've seen scenes play out over the last several days of people in these communities beginning to push back. Saw a scene uh you may have seen video clip online that went semiviral of of a man standing out on his street corner with his own weapon with his own rifle held in his hand saying, "This is my community. I'm here to protect it from the people who are patrolling around these streets. Masked men funded with your tax dollars jumping out of unmarked vehicles, disappearing people from these communities.

5:18 It only takes one slip up, one wrong decision for more people to get hurt. That's the kind of situation that is being created by the Trump administration here in the Twin Cities. But not just in the Twin Cities because we saw some of these similar and in some case the same scenes play out in city after city that we have covered here at Status Coup because we were on the ground in DC when the Trump administration occupied that city. We were on the ground in New York when ICE agents were grabbing people coming out of their court appearances. We were on the ground in LA during the immigration crackdown in that city. We were on the ground for nearly 2 months in Chicago.

5:59 We were on the ground in Charlotte while border patrol ravaged that community for the better part of a week. And now we've been here on the ground in Minneapolis. And if that work is important to you, I please ask you to go to statuscoo.com/join. for as low as $5 a month you go to help fund the work that keeps us here because it is a lot to keep us here. It is all of the travel to get us here. It is the constant hotel rooms that we need to be able to have a place to get warm and to sleep at night. It is the food to keep us fed at the end of the day when we are finally able to eat.

6:36 It's the gear that we need to buy for our cameras. We just had to buy a new cord to deal with some audio issues that we are experiencing. It is the cost of hand warmers that Will behind the camera just showed to me out of his hand that he needs to keep him warm. These are the things that we need to be able to stay on the ground here and continue to report from these brutal conditions. And so any support that you can offer us is greatly appreciated in this moment. Just know from the bottom of my heart, I thank you if you're already a member. If you're not, please consider becoming one for again as low as $5 a month.

7:10 I want to I was just talking there about some of the cities that we have uh reported in. Before I actually get to that, I want to talk about some of the conditions out here. You see dozens and this is only uh one of two protests that are outside the Whipple Federal Building where I am right now. So, it's got to be more than 100 people who were out here on a Monday evening demonstrating right now. But you see all these people here behind me. It is cold out here if you can't tell from the way that I'm talking. I'm a proud Midwesterner, upper Midwest. I like to think that I can handle the cold, but god damn is it cold out here. It is currently 4°. It feels like -6 with the windchill. And as any Midwesterner will tell you, it's never the cold that gets you. It's the wind.

7:55 And the wind is is blowing right now. Not intensely, but enough to continue to drain you. These people are feeling so inspired to be out here, to continue to push back against the Trump administration, to put their bodies on the line, to be in a place where the Trump administration has continuously used tear gas, used flashbang grenades, used pepper spray, used pepper ball guns in addition to other less than lethal munitions as a way to control and try and again beat the people of the Twin Cities into submission. and these people still out here despite the cold, despite that threat behind these barricades. And that's what I want to talk about. If you are part of the massive audience that has joined us over the last several weeks as we've reported here on the ground, a lot of you coming over from the Midas Touch Network, we want to thank them again for just embracing us and supporting us as

8:48 much as they have and giving us the platform that we can reach so many of you. But if you're new to Status Coup, this past fall, September and into October and then into November, we were on the ground continuously in Chicago for two months, maybe more. And while we were there, we were outside of a place called the Broadview, Illinois ICE Detention Center. It was a public black site. It was where ICE and Border Patrol in that community while Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration crackdown in Chicago was underway where much like the Whipple Federal Building where I'm standing uh was the headquarters for the operations that they were doing in that city. And it became much like the Whipple Federal Building has here. It became a place where regular protests including it was actually 24-hour protests were underway.

9:43 And we saw and we are seeing a lot of similarities between what happened in Chicago both in terms of the tactics that ICE is using and in the way the scene is developing here outside the web federal building. So Will, I want you to just kind of pan along this fence line and along these barricades here while I just kind of describe what's really happened out here. So over the last several weeks, what we've seen as some of these vehicles drive past honking their support for the protesters out here, you see out here, you see these fences and these concrete barricades that have been put up along with uh these uh barricades here that the protesters are standing behind. This is very similar to what we saw happen outside Chicago, outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention facility where slowly it ICE created for itself and the federal government created for itself this siege mentality by erecting more and more

10:38 fortifications around their building that made them feel constantly under attack and seemed to them to justify further use of force. And that's what we're seeing out here as well is that creation of a fortification And of course, coincidentally, the Whipple Federal Building, and perhaps ironically, is located within Fort Snelling, which is already a federal government fort. But you see it erecting these fortifications here outside of the building. And I want to point out who's taking control of security here. That is the Henipin County Sheriff's Office.

11:14 That vehicle that you see there, that truck with the flashing red lights, that's not a federal vehicle. In fact, you can see there on the uh plate it says sheriff on that truck. Although, of course, I say that right as a Prius pulls in front of it. But there you go. You see that license plate there on that truck that says sheriff. It's the Henipin County Sheriff's Office. That's the county in which Minneapolis is located. That has taken over a lot of the security around here. And they have actually taken over the crowd management here outside of the Whipple Federal Building. So these people have come to protest the federal government and instead they're being met with their own local authorities.

11:51 He's taking pictures. They're already they're already here to they're already here to protest their own federal the the federal government that is using their tax dollars to victimize their communities. And now they're being policed by their own local police who are essentially the or excuse me, the sheriff's office who is essentially acting as private security for the federal government. Meaning so that the federal government no longer has to spend the resources to be out here policing this crowd as they had been for the days and weeks prior to the Henipin County Sheriff's Office taking over out here. And so really and so really what happens is effectively you get you get people who are coming out here to try and protest the Trump administration to try and draw off some of those federal resources so that they have to spend time and energy managing the crowds out here instead of going out

12:45 into communities and continuing to terrorize and and kidnap people and abduct people off of the streets here in uh in Minneapolis and in St. Paul and the surrounding communities and in instead of being able to pull those resources off and act as uh you know proverbial uh sand in the machine out here and try and grind the federal government's operations at least to a slow if not a halt. Instead, the local authorities step in and make it easier for the federal government to do its job out here. And that is much to the frustration of many of the many of the people who have come out here to protest.

13:28 He wants to talk about something that happened the other day before they put all this up.

13:39 Yeah. What's what's your name? Diane to Nyers. M- E- Rs. Right. Diane, I'm a 72year-old Army veteran. Uh when I got out here on Saturday, um I went to talk to a Henipin County deputy. He was in his truck. I stood an appropriate distance from his vehicle. He rolled his window down. I said, I heard his dog. I said, "Can you keep your dog contained?" He then came out of the vehicle and shoved his door on me forcibly, pushing me back. He got I said, "I'm an Army veteran." He then got out of his vehicle and pushed me with both of his hands forcibly. At that point, he tried to wrestle me to the ground and I didn't I I wasn't fighting him, but I wasn't going down either. And then I was surrounded by five Henipin County deputies. A sheriff then came over within 30 seconds and try and tried to, you know, get I said, "Get that prick in his car." I said, "I don't want him anywhere near me. I know who he is.

14:41 It happened underneath the underneath the uh the light or the camera over at the track. Okay. So, it's on it's documented what happened. So, I'm filing a complaint with Henipin County and the ACLU against this guy and I'm going to see what I can do to get him thrown off the force.

14:59 Diane, how does it make you feel to see, you know, your local authorities? I'm not sure if you're from Henipin County.

15:04 I live in Minneapolis. Okay. So, yeah, you live in Henipin County. I live in Henipin County and they are behaving better than they did the other night when I got bear sprayed because they charged us. 50 of them charged us and we were already on the sidewalk. The reason they put this up is to keep ICE from crossing to get us. It's not for because we were complying. We were on the sidewalk when they charged us and bear sprayed us against the order of the federal judge. So, I'm going to file I'm filing a complaint with her court. So, she knows what happened that they it was Department of Homeland Security, Department of Corrections, and the Border Patrol. ICE was not anywhere out here. It was those entities wearing all black. They looked like the bloody Gestapo, you know.

15:52 How does it make you feel to see like your local authorities acting as security for the federal government?

15:58 I [ __ ] hate it. They were lock step. They're locked up with ICE. They're telling us they're here to protect us. No, they're here to protect ICE from us, but we're not. We're peaceibly out here. We're peaceable. This is what we were doing the other night when they attacked us. Exactly. Thank God we had some doctors out here and they leaved us. But when I got home to get that stuff off of me, I was absolutely burning up because that is some nasty stuff. and they weren't supposed to use any sort of gas on us at all.

16:31 So, you know, it it's it's awful. It's awful. How does it make you feel to see the the the Trump administration now taking steps to actually launch investigations into protesters for some of the actions that they are

16:44 I think it's abhorrent for one that the people drank the Kool-Aid and went after this guy. I was living in Philadelphia when Trump was tearing Atlantic City down. Okay, I know what the man's capable of. I was in Reno and he was trying to get casinos in Nevada and nobody wanted any part of his ass. Okay, I'm sorry for cussing, but anyway, the man is a fivetime draft dodger. As an Army veteran, I I I want no part of that man. He's a con man and he conned 49 and a half% of the people. And now they're regretting their vote, a lot of them. I have a niece who's MAGA. I posted about what happened and she came at me. I said I put it out there. I said, "Okay, those of you in my family or others that are, you know, coming at me for protesting in my condition cuz I I don't have good health. Shame on you." And my niece then came out and said, "You could you can call my name out." I said, "I wouldn't

17:40 disrespect you that way. You know, I I I do believe in boundaries. Being in the military, working in security for, you know, 10 years, you know, I worked for the federal government. I bet you don't know that they threw all of the veteran service officers and all of the uh employees with the federal government out of this building and took it over. As a result, they're breaking the law on a daily basis because they're violating the federal badging guidelines. As a federal employee, I know what those bad uh badging guidelines are. I worked for an airline for 15 years. I know what the federal badging guidelines are and they're not adhering to them and they should be prosecuted for that and because you can't piggyback. One guy can't put his badge and let 15 people go through the door. That's illegal. It's not following federal guidelines. And I'm totally pissed at our state troopers for the other night when that man got

18:37 shot. They were lock step with ICE that night. What would you like to see your local authorities, your local leaders do to try and, you know, support, you know, support the community out here?

18:49 I think they need to grow a pair and they need to file charges against Henipin County for one, against the state police. DCA, which is Bureau of um Criminal Apprehension, showed up about 3 hours after the incident up there the other night. They told state troopers to get the heck out of Dodge, which was the right thing to do because the state troopers were there in riot gear with batons. They also had a roer truck out there to spray us down. I wasn't up there, but they thought that over because it was 10° out. That's a hazard. So, they kind of rethought that mentality. These people are given 47 days of training and released on the public. And what they're doing is wrong. I went to the memorial to pay my respects.

19:41 The the guy cross that um shot her and murdered her an hour. He he wasn't hit and they have acknowledged that he was not hit. He doesn't have internal bleeding. He went to the hospital. That was reported by Minneapolis Police Department. They checked. So the other thing is this. An hour after the incident after he shot her and he called her a effing [ __ ] He was he lives in Chaza. He was over at his house with about seven other ICE agents loading up the vehicles with his belongings and they took him to a safe house. He's hiding out. The state of Minnesota has frozen his assets, but he's got a GoFundMe page that's getting heavily contributed to by MAGA. So, I hope that they find a way to put this man in jail. I was living over I owned a house over there. I know I know the people over there. I lived there for 10 years. I owned a home and um Portland that area nicest people walking the face

20:45 of the earth. I had three generations of Somali living next to me. Nicest people in the world. Okay. If the truth were to be known, this is not about Somali and Latinos. This is about the fact that Trump dislikes motans because we are aggressively progressive. We like to make things fair to people the best we can. And the other thing is that he wants Minnesota because of twofold. He wants us for our because we have the best soil in the United States up here. We have tachinite which he wants and we also have three not landlock logged ports off of our lakes and our rivers. He wants that so he can control it. That's that's the only reason he's coming down so hard on Minnesota right now. And the worst thing he can do is send the 11th brigade after us. Airborne after us because I think what it's going to do it's going to take it up a notch and we don't need that.

21:45 and wall should have activated my opinion the National Guard earlier. I've spoken to a lot of the National Guard because I'm a veteran. I have speak to a lot of them and um they don't want to do it but they raised their hand too like I did and my my oath never expired you know. Um so I'm I'm peaceibly exercising my constitutional rights which I signed up to defend. I was in Germany for three years and I sat over there when um the Russians were trying to invade us. They told us we had seven minutes if Russia decided to come in. We figured just gonna sit there and show them our Geneva Convention cards. That's all we could do. Is

22:23 is does this country I mean what when you look around the Twin Cities right now and you see mass men as you know as you laid out there after 47 days of training you said you know released or uh unleashed I forget exactly unleashed

22:36 on the on the public. Unleashed on the public out here. Yeah. uh these scenes that you've seen play out now in your hometown. Is this the country that you signed up to serve?

22:47 Not even. Not even. I'm 72 years old. I've seen lots of things. Um I'm born and raised California. So protesting is in my DNA. I marched with Cesar Chavez back in the day when I was in high school. So I believe that everybody in this country, immigrant or we're all immigrants. Unless you're an indigenous person, you're an immigrant. Okay. No matter how many generations it goes back. And you should treat fellow immigrants with respect and honesty and protect them if we have to. You know, I mean, it's it's not right. It's not fair. It's not just what they're doing. And it it's a violation of the Constitution, but they don't care. ICE doesn't care. They violated a federal order knowing a federal order was told for them to cease and desist on this stuff. and they still violated a federal order as they claim they're law enforcement yet they won't abide by the laws and by judgments. That's because of

23:47 the leadership that we have in the o or in the uh Oval Office. A lot of these Proud Boys are these guys. Okay, they were pardoned. I was deeply offended by that because as a veteran and having visited our capital, I've gone up there many times to pay my respects to to the presidents that were my commander-in-chief when I served, you know, and I might be a Democrat, but I voted for Reagan. Okay? So, I don't follow party line. I vote for the guy that is going to do what I feel is the best job. I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, independent. doesn't matter to me.

24:25 Do do you have any you've talked about your your niece who is a MAGA supporter and you've referenced, you know, that uh ICE agent uh Jonathan Ross is raising all this money through an online fundraiser in spite of shooting and killing somebody.

24:39 Yeah. Yeah. And you look around the country and there are still so many people supporting what ICE is doing. Do you have any hope of being able to reach people like your niece and convince them to kind of treat leadership the way you are of saying whoever you know whoever is going to do the best job like that's the that's the person for the job rather than just blindly following this ideology but certainly this cult of personality off a yeah off a cliff. Uh, the thing is this. I think my niece understands because I sent her some video of Jonathan Cross's video himself and it showed that he intentionally unholstered and was going to fire up her anyway without cause.

25:24 No cause for that, you know. And they they're saying that she had four bullets fired at her, but they're only committing to three at this point. But the fire department said she had four wounds in her, the paramedics. So, I mean, I guess it'll come out when the autopsy is released to the family. They'll they'll say, but it's a tragedy, you know, and ICE has been harassing the people that go over there to pay their respects. And I spoke to a Minneapolis police.

25:54 How so? How so? Have they been harassing people go to pay their among the crowds and pushing them? And they've been goostepping through there. You know, I call it goostepping because you're lock step, you're walking three deep and you're pushing people out of the way. I call that goostepping from where I come from. Um Trump and his administration are following the playbook of Hitler. If you know anything about history, this is how Hitler's regime came into power. taking away all of the rights of the people, suppressing the the uh the press, and you know, doing the things he's going case by case. Just follow the list. Just get get it out. And you can you can Google it.

26:34 You can explore it through the history books. And um I took America I took American history from a guy who was uh in the camps during World War II, you know, and he told the class, "I'm going to show you a video, but you don't have to be here if it's going to traumatize you, you know, and that that was very eyeopening to a a 20-some year old kid." And this was before I went into the military. So, um you know, I went into the military during the peace time. And um number one, to support my country, you know, and uh because I'm, you know, I come from a strong military family background and uh I wanted to do my part. I'm the only one in my family that enlisted. None of my other family did.

27:20 My twin head, matter of fact, was a hippie. So, you know, here I was in the army and she's a hippie. But, you know, that's okay. No matter whether you're red, blue, pink, purple, it doesn't matter. We have to respect each other's right to speak what we think is our truth. And you can't go attack people over that, you know, and um to as far as I'm concerned, this and Greenland and all this, this is a distraction to keep us off the Epstein files because we know he's guilty as sin. You know, I when he became president, I said, "Oh, that's great. We're a third party country now.

27:58 We have a 34 count indicted and felon serving as our president. Now, I don't call him President Trump. I just call him Trump.

28:08 If he if he if I was in the military and he came to my base, I'd [ __ ] go on sick call. Okay? I would no more salute that man than I would walk out here without cleats. Okay? He's not right. There's something wrong with him. fivetime draft dodger when the rest of us are serving our country. Not right. Not right. There's something wrong with that, man.

28:32 And thank you very much for the time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Who do you Who do you um

28:36 report for status quo or online independent progressive outlet? Good. Yeah. You know, so like I said, you know, I mean,

28:44 we have to do our part, but we have to do it in the right way. And I'm I'm not only out here protesting, I'm also following up with my legal options, you know, and that's the only way to do it. I will say something. When I was in Germany, I was in the medical corps and I had to deal with a lot of tragedy over there at the time. Um, they sent 17, 18, 19 year old kids over there without any idea of what they were up against. Back then it was snail mail and telegrams. That's all we had. We couldn't phone home. We had to save our money up and go down to the post office and call home once a month.

29:24 And uh kids were um either, you know, unalivvening their children, hurting their children and spouses or hurting themselves. And I had to x-ray this and I started writing to my congressman and my senator to get the tour reduced from three years down to two or whatever they could do for the for us as first time enlistes. About 6 months later, and I wasn't the only one riding, Congress changed the tour of duty to 24 months. So, I like to think I can do it legally within the system, but also this is within the system. It's just a little bit more vigorous, you know, and that's what I believe in. I I I think we need to put Congress in there. They only work part-time and we need to put them on a on a uh where they only get paid for the days they're in there and they only ser and we're never going to get turn limits on those beef people. They're not going to count. They're not going to that would take an act of Congress and they

30:30 ain't going to do it. But we need to uh cut their cut their finances cuz what if they serve just one hitch in there, they get that for the rest of their lives. And that's wrong. Very wrong. Our founding fathers didn't get paid to be in in the government. So why should these people, you know, it should go back to a no no pay because most of them are attorneys and lawyers and they've and doctors. They've got their money, you know, and they should take they should make them not have to get any money in my opinion.

31:01 Dian, thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it and appreciate all the opinions.

31:04 Thank you very much sharing it with us. JT JT, thank you JT. And thank you. They have foot warmers and hand warmers, boot warmers over there

31:14 and hot chocolate and McDonald's and all sorts of stuff. And it was Diane, correct?

31:18 Diane. Yes, sir. And Diane is saying that because it is brutally cold out here. Part of the reason that Diane, I think we could have talked to you all night, but part of the reason I'm ending the interview here is that I just want to get uh Will and I moving a little bit. We just want to walk down the sidewalk, show you a little bit more of this protest, and also get the blood flowing for ourselves here to be able to warm up.

31:35 Well, go get some It's probably cold chocolate, but it'll it'll it'll help. Thank you.

31:40 You're welcome, guys. Thank you very much. So, well, I So, I wanted to show um the the the multiple protests here while they while perhaps they are still out here. So, we are gingerely making our way across frozen ground out here. And you can see again how these uh how these uh uh ballards or these uh barriers have been set up here by again local authorities who have taken over who have taken over a lot of the management here. You see the Henipin County Sheriff's Office uh their squad cars laid out here just along the side from where we're where we're walking.

32:16 They've got a a big setup out here. You see groups are gathered around outside a kerosene heater out here keeping everybody warm

32:28 or at least as many people can stand outside of it at once. And you see here that yeah it's dozens of people who are also gathered here and then further down the street there was another protest that was underway. It looks like that one has broken up from what I can tell from here. Want to walk down that way just to be sure here. Will and again also just as an excuse to keep the blood flowing. It was -6° with the windchill when we got started though. My god does it feel colder than that right now. But again, you still got these dozens and dozens of people who are out here wanting to make their voice heard against the Trump administration for the violence that is being carried out here on the Twin City streets. And if you can hear that I'm barely able to talk because of the cold affecting my lips.

33:17 Hopefully if that comes across through the camera can serve as some sort of indicator as to exactly how cold it is out here and maybe give you a sense of uh a sense of perspective for the emotion that's bound up in this crowd. So I walked all the way down here just there is still a group down there. Well, if we want to actually walk the whole distance here to uh go see that other group of protesters that are down there. Yeah. A little bit.

33:47 Yeah. So, Will and I are making our way down the street here around the outside of the Whipple Federal Building to where there's a second protest because there are multiple entrances to the Whipple Federal Building. And it used to be that the protesters were gathering almost exclusively down here to where we're walking now. But after a lot of the uh I guess defenses we'll call them the fortifications that the Trump administration put up outside of the Whipple Federal Building. It began with actually a uh a gate, a barb wire gate that was put up down here out at this other entrance that we're walking to.

34:23 After those fortifications went up down at this end, the protests then migrated down to the end where we were just standing. And then we saw of course a lot of the scenes of violence that we have uh brought you here. All of those tear gasings, pepper sprayings, uh the flashbangs, many of which were uh exacted on John and myself, Zach, and Will that you've seen out here, these scenes that have played out over the last several weeks. um the Trump that the Trump administration spares no expense spares no expense to go after protesters and members of the press who are out here to cover what the Trump administration is doing here on the ground in Minneapolis.

35:10 No expense paid spared for brutalizing people. But of course when it comes to spending when it comes to spending money on that might actually help people in some way. Well, there's no money for healthcare. There's no money. There's no money for child care. There's no money for pick your government program under this administration. But there

35:35 going to pay for it. But yeah, it's who's going to pay for it when it comes to actually helping people. But when it comes to brutalizing people or disappearing people off of the streets, suddenly we can find billions upon billions of dollars to make ICE one of the most wellfunded uh militaries on the planet. And make no mistake, it is a paramilitary force that is out here. when you see the weapons that they're holding, the camouflage that they wear, all of the equipment they're decked out in. Um, for those of you who haven't been following our reporting, um, or have become recent fans of Status Coup, there was an incident last fall where, uh, we were interviewing some people out in Chicago who thought that the military had been deployed to the streets of Chicago when they had not, to be clear, they had not been deployed there. who thought that members of the military were on the streets of Chicago just because of the

36:28 way that the immigration enforcement agents were decked out and looked. So this is again the scene out here at this end of the protest where you see several dozen more people who are all arrayed out here before before we start to talk to some of the folks out here. And that walk was a welcome change of pace to uh get some blood flowing to my toes a little bit. Um, and if you see me wave my hands like this in front of the camera, I just want you to know what I'm doing is forcing blood back into my fingertips to keep them warm because it is that cold. Um, so if you see me doing this, know that I'm I'm okay. I'm just uh well, I'm very cold and just trying to keep myself warm. But one piece of news that I wanted to cover here on the stream that we didn't have the chance to yet down there before we decide to move down this way was that the Trump administration is now launching investigations into protesters

37:24 out here in the Twin Cities area. Specifically using an incident that happened just yesterday. I believe yesterday was Sunday. Correct. Qu get the days confused when you're just reporting uh uh endlessly out here. But yes, it's Monday. Um, so just yesterday there was an incident where some protesters had gone into a church here where one of the pastors was suspected of uh working with ICE. And these protesters went into this church and disrupted the service yesterday. And the Trump administration is using that single incident of protest to justify investigations now into protesters. So, the Trump administration is not afraid to turn its sights and impo and and and and use its resources to investigate and punish the people here of the Twin Cities area for having the gall to protest and resist their operations out here, but does not have the resources to share the findings or some of the evidence

38:33 that they've gathered in their investigation of the killing of Renee hood with local authorities to allow for a truly independent investigation of that shooting, which to be clear would cost almost nothing to just forward evidence along to local authorities. But they are going to spare no expense to go after the protesters here again after people who have the gall to stand up against them because this is not a popular look for the Trump administration. And you look at any polling that's come out about the popularity of ICE, the popularity of immigration enforcement and you can see that the vast majority of the American people are opposed to what the Trump administration is doing. And yet it continues to soldier onward because this effort is ultimately being led by Steven Miller, the president's deputy chief of staff, who is the one who has imposed this goal of 1 million deportations per year. the goal of 1 million

39:29 deportations a year, which would mean 3,000 per day in order to hit that number and in order to get to those 3,000 deportations per day. Steven Miller has been the one advocating for many of the deportation tactics that you have seen in your social media feeds or that we have brought you through our on the ground reporting here at Status Coup when we're out there in the streets and we capture the uh Border Patrol agents moving through a Target or uh making someone pass out in a gas station parking lot. Um you hear those those whistles and the shouts increase. That's when some of these federal vehicles are leaving the Whipple building here through this entrance that we are are now standing outside of. So, that is a new development that I will be asking some of these protesters about is how does that affect the the knowledge that the Trump administration is now targeting some protesters out here in the Twin

40:21 Cities area for investigation. How does that uh affect your desire to be out here in the streets? People out here don't seem to be cowed, but we're going to get that from them themselves. So, I'm going to go and get some of these people to to interview.

40:36 What's your favorite flavor of crayon? And again, uh the cold out here really getting to me. I keep I keep saying something. and it might affect the length of our stream here. But I want to point out that um uh my my our my boss Jordan just called and he's apparently looking live at the weather in Minneapolis as he watches us uh from the comfort of his home. Jordan, I hope you're warm. Uh but he is pointing out that it is uh -17° with the wind chill out here. And again, it's the wind that gets you, not the temperature. The wind is what really sucks the life out of you. Um, and these protesters are out here despite that.

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42:06 I'd really appreciate it. All right. Well, I'm going to find somebody to interview really quick.

42:12 She recogniz Oh, thank you. Would you mind if I interviewed you? Sure. About being or protesting out here in the cold.

42:27 Yeah. I don't know your first name, though. What's My name is JT. JT. Okay. I'm Catherine.

42:32 Catherine. Yeah. All right. So, I'm standing here with Catherine who's been on the megaphone. Catherine, what are some of the messages that you've been delivering to federal agents as they come and go here from this exit over this megaphone here?

42:43 Um, I've just been trying to talk [ __ ] such as, um, let's see, uh, that Bo eats soggy biscuits. um that they are about as useful as a football bat. Um just things that a lot of my military buddies have kind of yelled at each other cuz you know these guys are performative males and they don't have any courage and if it's coming from someone who looks like me I think it just might have a little bit more impact and plus my megaphone's bigger.

43:16 Thank you very much for that. I appreciate that. All right. So, um I we're out here. We've been making a big deal out of the cold just cuz I have to talk professionally and it gets difficult out here in the cold. Why, you know, can you talk a little bit about the the the the emotion that you're feeling, the passion? Why why do you feel so strong that you need to be out here in the cold in this weather to deliver these messages that you just laid out for us to ice? Why is it important that you be out here tonight delivering this message?

43:42 Oh, for sure. I mean, I don't think it's just me. I mean, it's it's just I have proximity. I live close. It's it and I have the clothes to do it. Everybody at home who's wanting to do this, we're here out with you. It's not about me. It's about the movement here. Um, what these guys are doing is totally against the Constitution. We have eyeballs. We have a brain. We have an education here in Minnesota. And we have a community that can support us. We have a community that can bring us food if we can't get to our jobs, you know. Um, it's it's really important. And I think it's a really good um flash point in history and I'm hoping that we are on the right side of it.

44:22 You you referenced that, you know, part of the movement that's building out here in in Minnesota. Can you describe this movement that you see yourself as being part of? What's it what's it fighting for? Who's it comprised of?

44:34 Yeah, for sure. I think it's for all of us. And really the movement is just education, like knowing what our rights are and having the courage to speak out for it. And it's Martin Luther King Day. It's, you know, we are standing on all of their shoulders, you know, and we have to use our privilege, as you're doing, to speak out for those who can't, you know, and we're trying to be fullthroated um and creative and doing what we do best. You know, some people are crocheting mittens for us. Some people are dropping off supplies, some people are escorting other people to work. And it's really important that we keep the engagement up. And so that way this movement continues because the line has been drawn. It wasn't by us. You know, we're it took us a while to get here. We know that there are marginalized people who've been dealing with this for a lot longer. And I know that we need to get better at all that

45:27 stuff, but better late than never. I guess we're trying our best. No, one thing that I have been trying to be conscious of in my reporting as these as we get further and further removed from Renee Good's killing is not to let her name fall out of the coverage as someone who was just taken from the Twin Cities community here.

45:46 In what ways is is her loss informing your activism? Yeah. Um I that's a really great question. Thank you so much for asking that. Um I work in healthcare. I'm a mandated reporter and the response to her murder by the federal government um Christine and the like is exactly like a domestic abuser honestly. You know, they use the Darvo tactics. They're using the exact same things. Um and I'm someone where I really care about my neighbors. I genuinely care about the people who I who I treat. I'm in healthcare and for months I've been treating people who have had concussions from these people.

46:31 I work with people who have breast cancer and my brown my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted. They don't want to leave their kids

46:45 afraid afraid to go to cancer treatment because they're worried that yes if I am lying I am cryed about like the worst of the worst and all the rapists we wouldn't be here you know it's you know we have have eyes we have brains don't piss on our legs and tells us it's raining we can see this [ __ ] every day we can see it here and if we don't stop it from here it's coming somewhere false.

47:14 So, speaking of that that federal response that you referenced there, um the federal government now has begun investigating some uh protesters here in the Twin Cities area driven by yesterday's uh protest at a at a church. That's the excuse that that they are using. Does does hearing that that the federal government is bringing its full force to bear to investigate people who have the timmerity to stand up against the federal government, does that cow you does that make you double? No. No.

47:43 No. I I am I come here by myself. I'm not with any group. They don't scare me. They don't scare me. They are all hat, no cattle, you know, honestly. They they're just trying they're afraid. They are afraid and they're trying to go after people who don't have millions of dollars. They are afraid. If they were as strong and as sure of themselves, they would have done that [ __ ] already. You know, I don't have faith in our current government, but I do have faith in our institutions and I do have faith of good people um who are in those institutions. And the more we're visible, I think the more it's going to be easier uh for those good ones to kind of come out and even if it's a whisper, just to stand up, one whisper can start a cacophony. And I think that's what it is here. I don't know. And I'm NOT JUST LIKE BLOWING OUT MY ASS. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT. I genuinely do.

48:45 Yeah. as the cacophony rises here around us as more federal agents come pouring out of the federal building here. Katherine, I want to address the the local authorities who are out here. We've seen the Henipin County Sheriff's Office now step in and act as crowd control out here, private security essentially for the federal government. How do how does it make you feel to see local authorities interposing themselves between protesters and and the federal government?

49:12 For sure. So, I, you know, have tried to keep my thumb on the pulse a little bit on the local stuff and I have at least tried to seen a good faith effort um of them trying to improve and trying to improve the public's trust and I haven't been out here all day. I can only come out here a couple hours and I do work. I have a job I got to go to tomorrow. Um, when I've been out

49:34 So, you're not a paid protester? No, I wish. Mama's got to pay her rent. Come on now. Um, no. And I'm I'm very blessed that I have a good job and I can come out here and I really, you know, I've felt very supported by um my healthcare provider, not HCMC, but views are of my own. Um sorry CEOs and my corporate overlords. Um but to your question, you know, these guys, they just want us out of the street. I mean, what they're not doing, they're not coming out here. They're not deploying pepper spray. They're not yelling at us. They're trying to have a conversation. Um the sheriffs have done a really good job in my opin from what I have seen. You know, I've heard some other stories. I haven't seen it. So, take it with a grain of salt, bae. Um you know, they actually know what deescalation is. Um and they've been using some of those tactics. Um and I I really hope I see that momentum coming forward. And I and I really I

50:36 hope that what I'm seeing is is the objective truth. But, you know, I could also just be an echo chamber. I don't I don't know.

50:42 What would you like to see from uh your your local your state leaders to do in this moment? I mean, we've already seen them take some steps here or there, but what what do you want to see or what do you like that you're seeing already from your local and state leaders to resist what the Trump administration is doing to the Twin Cities area?

51:00 For sure. So, what I liked I I briefly watched that 60-minute clip. Um, what I really liked seeing

51:06 Sorry, can you explain the 60 Minutes clip for people who uh might not be familiar with the chief of police and all that?

51:11 Oh, sure. So, Chief Brian O'Hara was on 60 Minutes. He did a an interview and yeah, it was there was a lot of things he said very broadly. Um, but the thing that really resonated with me um was he said, you know, you you need to protect women, right? you know, you need to protect people who have disabilities. And I've worked in the traumatic brain injury field. Um, and it it was just really refreshing to have someone who had that authority say, "Hey, you know, masculinity, real masculinity protects, right?" You know, I think it maybe it wasn't the right thing. I don't know. I I don't know what the right answer is. And I I suspect a lot of us here don't um from what our elected officials or paid official or whatever should be doing. Um but I'm seeing a lot of good steps forward and sometimes that's the best we can do. I mean this is our first like government occupation, you know, we're going to we're going to get it wrong,

52:19 you know, but we don't we don't have to be perfect to be correct, you know. Speaking of getting it wrong, since you know, you say, "Oh, our first government occupation here in Minnesota." Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. Um, what would be I mean, what we've seen the Trump administration do is kind of pick a blue city, blue state of the month almost to really impose its will upon to grind its heel into for those cities that might be next.

52:46 Yeah. What would be your advice to people watching based on your experiences out here, what you've seen Minneapolis go through? What should people be doing right now or be preparing themselves for?

52:57 For sure. Um, so definitely get educated on the fascist playbook. Um, or the authoritarian playbook, honestly. Um, get educated and be prepared. I mean, in my little buggy here, I got eyewash cups. I got emergency blankets, you know, look out for each other, take care of each other. The government isn't coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. And that's really scary and it's really uncomfortable. Um, but we really need to sit in that discomfort for a little bit and be in our radical acceptance era, you know, because it's here. It's not coming. It's it's here and we need to mitigate the damage.

53:38 I I don't know if that answer your question. No, I think it absolutely did. I appreciate it. And Katherine, is there anything else you would want to say before I let you go?

53:45 Yee-haw. [ __ ] the law. Just ask any NASCAR. And I mean the feds running away from cops is an American. I mean, sorry, you know, for all you people like, "Oh, just comply." Like, how does that boot taste in your mouth? Come on now. Um, this is the most American thing that is out there. Like, these are the patriots here. We're not draped in flags. These are the ones who are out here. We're freezing our asses off. It is cold. I'm not wearing makeup. Like, you know, I'm not like presented in my best. Um, but we're out here trying our best and we're not going to get it right. And you know,

54:25 I I can't articulate this very well. Um, it is really important for me to get this right and I think it is for everyone else too. Um, I am really mad at MAGA because they took so much from me and it's not just my neighbors and it isn't just my government or my tax dollars. They took my dad, you know, like they took they they took people that I love from me.

55:00 Can you can you explain that? Yeah. So, their rhetoric works. Okay. Like authoritarian tactics, they work. They work on good people. I'm not mad at the Trump voter. I'm not mad at the MAGA individual. I love them. I love them and I miss them. I miss going fishing with my dad. I miss going out with my uncles, you know. I miss going to Thanksgiving and not feeling like, oh Jesus, like just turn off the news, man. We don't hate you. We want healthc care for you, too. You know, we want you to be healthy, too. We want you to be safe, too. We want your kids to get a good education.

55:57 And we want your kids to have full bellies and be safe and go to school and not worried about getting shot up. We want that for your kids, too. And you know, I I don't blame you for not believing me. Um, but that's what's in my heart today. But your your so your father I mean is he someone who is very much on you know on the mega train so to speak and

56:27 feel like you just don't have that relationship with him anymore because of politics.

56:30 Yeah. And and the thing is is that all of at least from what I've seen is that people are oh you know these radical liberals we've trumped derangement syndrome. No we haven't. No the line crossed us. You know we didn't cross over. You know, I know that they're good, decent people. They just voted for someone who's really good at tricking them. And it's okay. We can't, you know, we forgive you. We forgive you for falling to those tactics because you can't be a billionaire. You can't make that much money being honest with people. You just can't, you know. So, they're really good at tricking folks.

57:11 And you're not stupid for falling for it, you know. I would want to believe it, too, you know. I would want to believe that. Yeah, let's make our country better. I want to make our country better, too. You know that this isn't the way the way that we've been going isn't the way to do it in my humble opinion. And when she says the line crossed us, I mean, what she's saying there is that the Twin Cities was not built on top of 3,000 immigration enforcement agents who were already here. This is a force that was imported into these cities to cause the pain and in one case the death of the people that live here. I didn't ask you at the top, at least I don't think I did in my cold brain, but can you uh can you just spell your name for us really quick?

57:58 Yeah, it's K H R Y N as in November. Yeah. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

58:02 Thanks for what you're doing. Yep. Appreciate it. And I want to talk one of the I want to talk directly to folks in this audience right now who might be watching who are supporters of this president unquestioningly to the MAGA movement who might be watching right now. We've had a lot of you on our streams perhaps in our chat right now. And one thing that I want to address to you is if you claim to stand for American ideals, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, want you to take a look at Minneapolis, Minnesota right now at the people who are out here demonstrating against their federal government, who just want their communities to be left alone, to not be put at the center of so much pain out here.

58:54 Would you? There have been so many on the right who have said, "Oh, just obey authority." Unquestioningly, just obey authority. Question I would put to you is, would you have said that to the Sons of Liberty when they were dumping the tea in the harbor in Boston in 1775? Would you have said that to them?

59:14 You can't be a NASCAR fan and say that. I'm sorry. Yeah, cuz at a certain point, that's what we're talking about here. The same way that Boston was occupied by British forces who were the authorities over the 13 colonies, you've got a federal government

59:35 occupying this city as well, interposing itself in these communities, inflicting pain on these communities. And if you want to uphold American ideals,

59:52 is this what you imagined America would be like? Clouds of tear gas in American cities that are affecting babies that are affecting innocent passers by. Federal agents shooting and killing an American. Something to think about. thinking will have to be something that I do later because it's so cold that I don't think the neurons are even firing in Will and I's brain. Poor Will here behind the camera. I'm watching him. He's doing a a dance from side to side as we talk just to keep his blood flowing. He has that luxury cuz he's not on camera. I could start doing that dance, Will, and make you try and keep me in frame. That would certainly make me warmer. You hear these people here behind me screaming out their frustration as these federal agents leave this facility here, pull away in vehicles, going perhaps out into Twin City neighborhoods, perhaps going out in Twin City neighborhoods to again find more people

1:01:00 to terrorize, kidnap, and deport out here on a federal holiday on Martin Luther King Jr. Okay. All these people who chose to stand out here as a way to carry on carry on that civil rights legacy and that fight for freedom. I'm going to I'm going to find some more people to to talk to out here if for no other reason to find an excuse to to walk around. As Will points out, the next closest person so I don't have to walk too far. Thanks, Will.

1:01:31 Pardon me, sir. you. I guess I got to come out from this thing, but All right. What? What's your name?

1:01:38 Mike. Mike. Common spelling, I assume. Mike, what's that? Common spelling, I assume. Mike.

1:01:43 All right. All right. Mike, can you start just by walking us through the message you came to deliver here? And by that, I mean read off your signs. Why are these the signs you wanted to carry today?

1:01:51 Sure. Sure. So, I can start with them. So, we have, "Please be kind to my community." And we have, "I'm against escalation, not you." Um, this is kind of my like evolution of of signage, right? Um, uh, this is this is our first experience with with government occupation and so I'm I'm getting better at it. And this is what I've come up with for today. You know, I think we've got lots of folks uh who are rightly uh telling them a little bit spicier messaging um that they also need to hear. But I don't know. I guess I thought uh what might come out what might what might maybe make a difference for a few of them. Like I I I think about um um like there's a there's an adage about policing that if if you have uh police officers in your community policing that community, you'll get the best outcomes.

1:02:43 We have the exact opposite of that obviously right now with these folks coming from out of state who also are coming up with stories about what we're like in Minnesota. I know because you know you can hear what they say when from their detainees and the stories that that their detainees tell about um the word choice that they that they choose to describe the people that they're imprisoning and detention.

1:03:07 What's that story that's being told about Minnesota that you don't feel is true?

1:03:13 Yeah. Um well, so I think that I think that they're looking for opportunities to dehumanize and I think that that that kind of like talk enables uh really bad behavior, right? Um, and so like there's evidence of this. Uh, and I don't I don't think it's I don't think it's like I think it's actually happening for for um the folks some of the folks on the other side of that fence because they will say things like uh you wouldn't be uh much fun anyway. You're white. And they will say stuff like um that lesbian [ __ ] right? They look for opportunities to tear down people that I don't know. I'm not them, but I guess don't look like them or whatnot, right?

1:03:52 So, what I'm trying to do with the signage is the very very very first steps of like maybe we're not all crazy, right? Um, every once in a while in the few days uh a after Renee Good was killed, uh, the scene out here was a lot different. You know, now we've got all the fences, we've got local law enforcement. You don't get to talk directly to the ICE agents anymore. And I think that's a loss. I did get to talk directly to some ICE agents in the few days after before we all came up with all this you know infrastructure and and it was unfortunate like I you unfortunate now I you know I I I you could really talk with them is what I'm saying right and the sign's not going to do a lot right but it might do a little bit and when I used to be able to talk to them like I got to play them the videos right like it wasn't like it wasn't a standoff it was like they wanted to know why I was here, you know, and

1:04:52 meaning you were able to have almost a direct dialogue with the agents. Totally. They were and it was cuz actually cuz they were putting all these fences up, right? So, they needed to push us all back and we needed, you know, and they weren't very good at putting the fence up so it took a long time. We were all standing here and we got to start talking and that was what I was trying to create and I don't know if we'll get to do it again but can you just share a little bit of that dialogue that back and forth?

1:05:15 Yeah. So, um, and it's also helpful, um, to understand, uh, who is Federal Protective Services and who is ICE. Um, the FPS, they're not going to be out on the street ever. The ICE agents might be worth talking to. So, I got to talk to three of the ICE agents. And uh one of them uh, said, you know, just like small talk, like where where you from? Who did you were you born here? No, I'm not born here, but I've lived here for 15 years and that's long enough as for me to get to know that my community is worth protecting. And I think that got their attention because I think it's certainly not all of them, but some of them feel that they are like patriotic and like serving their country and whatnot. And they're like, oh, like this guy, first of all, he's willing to talk and also he maybe hold has some similar ideas about like showing up for, you know, what's important or what's right or what not. We just disagree on

1:06:05 what's right. Um, And uh then I played the and I said, you know, I I it took me a long time to come out here. I think what really happened matters. And before I started making signs and whatnot, I I watched a video, then I watched another video, then I watched a third video, and then I was like, "Okay, I'm pretty sure what happened here and what your leadership said about it is super wrong." And uh this was the day that the uh that Jonathan Ross's cell phone video came or whatever that video the the one from the perspective of the shooter.

1:06:41 Yeah. Yeah. It was it was Jonathan Ross's uh cell phone video as he shot and killed Renee Good was was released. Yes.

1:06:50 And that was super fascinating because they brought that to my attention. They said, "Oh, have you seen the new one though?" And I hadn't. I was out here. Right. I don't know what you're chatting about. But I'll tell you what, I just told you I think what really happened matters and I'm interest I'm open to seeing other viewpoints on this thing. What, you know, how do I find it? And they told me, you know, how to search for it and and find it. And so I looked it up. It, you know, we've all seen it now. Um, a little hard to follow. So I had to watch it a number of times, but they really genuinely believe that this was vindicating.

1:07:21 Yeah. and and I don't understand how and I wish I'd had more time to ask them that. But I did get to, you know, it was the first time that I'd seen it too, but I did pick up on some of the aspects that that everyone else has. Like she's looking out the door and smiling at the agent, right? And so I pause it on that frame and I show these three guys like I guess we're going to have to disagree. She's, you can see she's turning the wheel to the right and she's smiling. Tell me that's the face of a killer. And they looked at my phone, right? They looked at her at that frame. And one of them before they they they all got called back in, right? Because the gate gets gets done being made. And one of them says, "You know what? I'm glad to have met you."

1:08:05 So, I don't know. Like, I'm sure I'm sure those dudes still work with ICE, but yeah, you're not expecting them to throw down their rifles right there in that moment. But maybe when they are out on our streets, they won't be as big of [ __ ] because they got a chance to, you know, learn a little bit of like what, you know, they're actually who we are in Minnesota. in in my uh in my uh in in my time out here in the in in the in the Twin Cities. Um I just uh sorry, I'm being distracted over here cuz Yeah, cuz we've got Attorney General Keith Ellison is actually out here at the protest right now. He's the attorney general for the state of Minnesota. So, we may have to come back to you. I want to grab him while we while he's still around if that's all right and try to get try to get the interview here. But

1:08:53 I think we're good. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much for your time, man. I appreciate it. for us.

1:09:01 It is Martin Luther King's uh holiday today and I think that Martin Luther King would want us to be out here standing in solidarity. And I'll say that Martin Luther King and a woman named Viola Leuzo, who was a white woman who was killed when she was helping uh civil rights marchers and and Renee Good who was killed when she was standing up for her neighbors to me represent sort of three people who really exemplify the values of this time. Three people who lost their lives seeking to stand up for others. And we can do no less. and these people who are really really cold, really freezing, doing all they can to lift up their voices for their neighbors. I just wanted to spend a few minutes talking to them and uh and and just let them know that we're I'm going to do everything I can uh to fight for our state and protect our state. So, happy Martin Luther King Day.

1:10:02 Perfect. All right, guys. Mr. Attorney General, are you doing interviews? Uh levels is not too long.

1:10:08 Yeah. Well, we can keep it brief for you. Sure. what you got. Well, I wanted to start by getting your reaction to uh today the Trump administration

1:10:15 uh said that it was going to start investigating some of the protesters out here in Minnesota.

1:10:20 Uh have you seen any conduct from protesters out here that would warrant federal investigation?

1:10:25 No, I have not seen any conduct that would warrant federal investigation, but I didn't see any when Mark Kelly said that you cannot uh you can disobey illegal order or when or when Elise Luckin said the same thing. I didn't see any illegal conduct uh when uh when Tish James or James Comey said did their job or I didn't see any when uh Tim Walls or or or or um or Jacob Fry. I didn't see Jerome Powell who's the head of the Fed cuz he won't lower interest rates to help Trump uh and drive our economy into a bad shape.

1:11:02 Clearly, we live in the age where this administration weaponizes uh the criminal justice system to punish people they don't like. At the same time, however, they let 1600 people go who tried to overturn a democratic election. Oh, and worse than that, there is a woman who he just gave a pardon to who committed fraud in the first uh Trump administration, got a pardon, committed fraud again, and then got another pardon. There's a guy Juan Orlando Hernandez moved 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. He acts like he's against drug dealers. So he's killing people in the Caribbean without any legal right. But so this guy is completely completely inconsistent. The one thing you can count on is that if you do what he wants, you can do anything you want. And if you stand up to him, he's going to use the criminal justice system against you. This is authoritarianism. This is tyranny. This is not something and it's not helping.

1:11:58 It's not happening elsewhere. It's happening here and we have to stand up to it and these people are freezing their asses off to stand up for our country and I just want to be here to just say thank you to them. So that's all I got for you.

1:12:09 Was there any symbolism for you coming out here on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Why'd you pick today to come out here and stand with these protesters?

1:12:15 If there's any day to be here, it is Martin Luther King's holiday. He helped us have a democratic society. He helped bring our society into one where, you know, you could live up to uh your your talent and ability and not be restricted by your identity. And because of that, him because of the advances he made in democratic society in America, these people being so courageous in their standing up for democracy, it just seemed like the right time to be with them.

1:12:44 We've seen the state in your office already take several steps as a way to try and push back on the Trump administration. Is there anything else in the works or any other steps that you feel are needed to be taken in this moment to stand up against the occupation that's happening here in the Twin Cities area? Well, one thing I will say is that I don't make any conclusion about the guilt or innocence of Jonathan Ross, but it is inexplicable for the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division to say that they will not investigate her death for six assistant US attorneys to quit because they're telling them to investigate the the Cook family and not and they're not investigating uh Renee Cood's death and then they won't turn the file over or at least give the state access to the file. It is completely inexplicable and it looks just like a cover up to me. And so if you're not going to do an

1:13:39 investigation, give us the file. We'll do it. But they're saying no. So we need So to me, I mean, that's just completely un unexplainable and it and it speaks to cover up and we have to denounce it and the whole world should should denounce it. And uh so we're going to be in court on January 23rd to stop this Operation Metro Surge. And we're going to do the best we can to bring justice forth. And we're going to be trying to follow the example of these completely courageous people who are freezing for the sake of our state and and lifting up their voices and God bless them. And on Martin Luther King Day, they are exhibiting the true spirit of what Martin Luther King is about. and uh and I just and I just want to say thank you to them.

1:14:25 Last question since I can see you're cold as we all are out here. Um the uh you you just referenced that the Trump administration has politicized the justice system.

1:14:34 As the chief law enforcement officer here in the state of Minnesota, the justice system is sort of your purview. What is your hope that the federal courts or that the courts here in Minnesota can give you any sort of justice when that system is being politicized by the Trump administration? Well, we're going to put our case in front of the court on January 23rd. We're going to show how Operation Metro Surge is illegal, unconstitutional, damaging to our state. It is wrong. And we're going to we're going to we're going to believe that the court's going to bring forth a fair and just order. Uh and then if and then we're going to expect the the Trump administration to follow the law. If they don't, uh then there are all kind of sanctions uh that can happen with regard to contempt. But, you know, we're going to we're going to do the best we can do because these courageous people out here are doing the

1:15:22 best they can do. We can do no less. How can we do less? If somebody is, you know, freezing their toes off, how are we going to like nail it in? No, we got to put everything we got into it and that's what we're going to do.

1:15:34 Anything else you would want to add while you had the platform? No, man. You got it.

1:15:37 Thank you very much, Attorney General. I appreciate it. That was that was Keith Ellison. and we didn't have the time to really set it up before we had to get in there and ask him a few questions while we had that opening, but that is uh Keith Ellison. He is the attorney general here for the state of Minnesota, an outspoken progressive. He has taken the Trump administration to court over its conduct here in the Twin Cities area and as a way to try and get the Trump administration to end Operation Metro Surge. That is the operation that was underway before Renee Good's murder, before Nick Shirley's video that he put out uh that you may have seen that went viral where he harassed a number of Somali daycarees here with false in many cases accusations of fraud. Um and he was he uh he was out here. Uh so that operation's been underway since the beginning of December. The attorney general is now challenging that

1:16:34 operation in court. And as you just heard him reference there, there will be a proceeding in court on the 23rd, which is the same day that a general strike is planned here for the Twin Cities area where a number of unions, other organizations, political organizations, and others are calling for people to not go to work, not go to school, grind this community to a halt, and for people to go out into the streets and resist the Trump administration and what it is doing. We will be here on the ground on the 23rd. Reporting on those court proceedings, reporting on what the people undertaking that general strike are doing, reporting on that street eye view of how those people who don't go to work, who don't go to school, who do go out into the streets to try and resist the Trump administration's operations, we will report on how how effective they are and give you that on the ground look because

1:17:29 that's what we do here at Status Coup. We give you that on the ground reporting. We grab elected officials when they are available. When they have when they do come out to protests like these, we are constantly asking I've been trying to get uh an interview with attorney to peak behind the curtain here. I've been trying to get an interview with Attorney General Ellison for the better part of the last two months. And there we're able to get it and bring it to you live. Put important questions to elected officials. lift up the voices of people who are out here at these protests in the cold in the negative 17° windchill that my boss had the joy to call and let us know exactly how cold it was. Thank you, Jordan, for that. uh the cold that we are out here reporting and lifting up the voices of people who in comparison to that federal government in that building right over there that they are standing out here to

1:18:21 protest are the power showcase that that power imbalance that exists between the billions of dollars that are that federal government is funneling into the police force that private police force that Gestapo that a lot of people refer to ICE as and I don't think it's an exaggeration to call them that to draw that direct comparison two secret police forces from other authoritarian regimes is operating out here in the street and they are out here with whistles and signs to make their voice clear with just helmets or respirators at their sides as a way to protect themselves. We lift up those voices here at Status Coup. We put important questions to elected officials. We do it all in 17° cold because it is important. We do it away from our families. Will behind the camera right now has a fiance back at home who's waiting for him to go home.

1:19:13 He has been here for weeks. I just got back finally from being able to see my wife and newborn daughter for just a few days. Excuse me as I get a little emotional, but it's because it is so important because we believe that what we are doing here is giving a real unvarnished look at what is happening on the ground here in the Twin Cities area to be able to give you that informed perspective to be able to push your leaders for the kind of change that you want. If you want to join us in this peoplepowered, people centered news uh independent journalism, please go to statuscoo.com/join for as low as $5 a month. You go to support us, to keep us here on the ground, asking important questions of leaders like that, lifting up voices like these and doing on the ground journalism that doesn't parachute in when it's just the hot story here in the Twin Cities. We were here for weeks before Renee Good was killed. We've been

1:20:15 here on the ground uh for the several weeks, for the couple of weeks that have passed since and we will continue to be here on the ground to showcase how the rising authoritarianism in this country is actually impacting Americans, your friends, neighbors, family here in the streets. I want to try and get another uh another interview while while we're out here, but I wanted to make that pitch to you because it is so important and we're only able to do this with the support of our members. So, if you are a member from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

1:21:01 How are you? Oh my god. Was there a Was there a caravan up here or There was like an hour or two ago. Yeah.

1:21:08 Oh my god. I was just talking on camera just a little bit ago drawing some of the parallels between here and Broadview. Would would some of you mind if I did like a little maybe like a group interview with some of you? Uh

1:21:19 or maybe even just one or two of you just to do a little interview about why you guys wanted to come all the way up here from Chicago.

1:21:25 Yeah, if anybody wants to more than me. Go ahead. I'm down. Yeah, you go. I'm down. Anyone else?

1:21:30 Stand there. That's fine. Okay. Yes, there you go. Stand behind. Okay. Yeah. So, I had just been making reference to earlier here in the stream some of the parallels between some of the coverage that we did down in Chicago for two months this past fall on the ground in that city as it was ravaged by the Trump administration that had included near daily coverage from daily 24-hour protests that were happening outside of the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention facility. I turn around and I see some familiar faces here in the crowd here in in Minneapolis. It's some people who are up here from the Chicago area who came to stand and protest with people here in the Twin Cities area. Um can start name name spelling please.

1:22:22 Hi, I'm Morsa. M O R S A. Um, Morsa and uh, Morsa was one of those voices that you would have heard repeatedly on our streams uh, during uh, the coverage that we offered down there in Broadview. Morsa, could I get you to explain why did you come all the way up here from the Twin Cities?

1:22:40 Excuse me, from Chicago to the Twin Cities. Well, it's pretty simple honestly. Like we live through this already. Um, it we saw somewhere like right now we're things a little bit quiet out in Chicago which are very happy. Um, but it's very sad to see this just move to a different area. We're here to show support to everyone in Minneapolis. We're here because we live through this. We want to share knowledge. We want to be able to help out as much as we can. We may be from Chicago, but this affects everyone in America. So, we're doing we're just doing our part, honestly.

1:23:13 All right. And you guys made the journey up here today. Yeah. Okay. Made the just got in. Come out here. I was remarking on how much like at Broad View, the fortifications have gone up here, the federal government has started to create that siege mentality for itself. I'm just curious, what parallels do you see between what happened in Chicago and what's been happening in the Twin Cities? It doesn't need to just be about the Whipple Federal Building here. Could be more what you've seen in general. What has happened to the Twin Cities that also happened to Chicago? and and what warnings would you offer either people in other cities or here in the Twin Cities about what they're likely to continue to go through here that you saw on the ground in Chicago?

1:23:57 Cop collaboration. I mean, we are standing next to a sheriff's vehicle right now. Um just the other day while viewing uh your stream over at the entrance there, you had two state troopers. I'm standing in Broadview while watching your stream, staring at two state troopers in front of the uh processing facility. I mean 100% it's you know sanctuary cities and uh you know sanctuary states collaborating with local state uh county PD um those guys collaborating with ICE and protecting ICE's uh illegal and horrible immigration enforcement. It's just now it's they've got 10 times the amount of uh ICE and Border Patrol agents.

1:24:44 Yeah. I want to talk about that sense of scale a little bit. It was just hundreds of agents in Chicago, though it felt like an invasion already with that number. When you heard that it was going to be 3,000 agents in a city that's much smaller than Chicago, a metro area that's much smaller. What were you guys' reactions when you first heard that it was going to be 3,000 agents coming to bear out here?

1:25:05 Well, I mean, they need support. That was the first thing. It's again, we got a taste of it. Like, they're smaller. They just need our help. Um it's yeah it's a lot. Um like the new tactics like the doortodoor tactics that was something that was very new cuz we didn't really experience that at all. Um so it's it's very scary but again the first thing that came to mind was like they need support. They need help. We need to do what we can and you know just do our part. Um that's that's the first thing that came to mind. I don't know about

1:25:34 Yeah. I can maybe one thing that I think is in common between Broadview Illinois and Minneapolis here is that ICE or Border Patrol is traveling 20 to 60 minutes to a different area in order to perform their abduction. This is discouraging for people who are trying to observe and surveil and you know pro potentially perform dearrest tactics because it's far and it's hard to follow a car that long legally uh or effectively. And that was similar in Chicago. Around here, it's more like they're traveling 45 minutes to go to a small town with uh three-digit population. Uh population might be bigger where we are, but it's kind of a similar commute. And similarly, I think this is the focal point where people will organize, where people are going to meet each other. I I've only been here an hour or two, but I I going off of our experience, we didn't know each other a few months ago and we met at the

1:26:33 Broadview Ice Facility. Um people will meet here and they'll figure out how to coordinate and organize and travel where they need to go to prevent or to treat the problem in different places. Yeah, that was certainly uh I always called it a a a silver lining, but I always caveed it in in our broadcast down in Chicago where what you saw there were as these communities were being victimized, you saw people in these communities coming together in a way that they hadn't before the federal invasion. And you're seeing the same thing here in the Twin Cities that this occupation by the federal government is really building up community here in one way in their continued resistance against the Trump administration and now you all are here.

1:27:21 So not only intra community uh community building and organizing but now intercity organizing here. Do you all have any intentions of trying to get connected into some of the networks here to Yeah, I'm seeing nods like what what are some of the ways that you try that you would you know that when you came up here you were thinking okay here's how I want to try and help.

1:27:43 I can speak to that. So when we first started talking about coming up here, um we tried to find some connections that were here on the ground in Whipple. Um and we started a like a whip view solidarity chat, right? Um we have a lot of supplies from when we used to have a tent that you know aren't helpful right now that we were able to provide. Um, we were able to, you know, kind of canvas the Chicagoland area for additional supplies. And the first thing we did was start connecting with people out here and asking what we they need. Um, just since we left Chicago or this morning, we've met with um, representatives from Indivisible in Wisconsin, like right on the border where they're getting hit in those small little towns. and we've met with 50-51 um and we are you know we've been coordinating um through various chats and and different like vetted connections right just to make sure that what we can do is effective um and then

1:28:46 share knowledge uh we are trying to do that uh as much on a national level as we can it's going to take a national resistance um to get rid of this fascist and evil administration One thing I want to be sure to ask all of you about is the federal government has promised to return to Chicago this spring. When you see the scale out here, 3,000 agents, you start to think about what could come to bear in Chicago in the spring. And one thing that I want to let our audience here in a little bit behind the scenes is I've been, you know, over the weeks here, I'm out here with other journalists. we get talking and one of the thoughts that um I and other journalists have shared is just the uh the idea of how much more tense it could be on the ground if it were just warmer outside that these these these uh the temperatures chill the the counterprotest to be sure but then also the the federal government's uh

1:29:45 operations because who wants to get out of their car when it's you know feels like7° outside and it really makes you humbled, concerned for what this level of operation will look like come this spring, during the thaw or come this summer during the heat and as folks from the Chicago area, as you think about that that federal threat to return in the spring, what are you thinking is in store for your community? There's more of us than them.

1:30:22 Yeah, that's true. And if uh you know the cold is kind of stopping everybody, it might be a great equalizer. So they can come back in March. March will have nicer weather. We'll be back, too. And yeah, they're pretty unpopular. Uh we can pull out people who wouldn't normally get that active, but it'll be nicer out. That's And we're, you know, speaking for all of us, I think we're pretty scared, right? I I think we're pretty worried about this. [ __ ] ICE. I I think we're pretty worried about this being a testing ground for our city, for the whole nation. Um, and then, you know, regarding the cold weather thing, we're also hearing of Guard troops standing by who are trained in cold weather tactics, uh, which feels really absurd. Um, but we can train in cold weather tactics, too. You know, put on another hat. That's that's we were doing it, you know. That's it. Marissa, it seemed like you were about to jump in

1:31:19 with something. Did you have anything you wanted to add? It's like you said, like there is that fear. That's why we're here to kind of see what they're dealing with, what what is different that they might bring over to Chicago later on. We're again, we're also preparing. We're taking our time to rest as much as possible, but plan um again, as this keeps growing, so does the support um with the people and people's eyes are starting to get open and realize what's actually happening. So, I just agree with everything that was said. Like, it's go. Our support is going to grow.

1:31:53 All the information and everything that's happening is going to grow. Like, people like Status Coup are amazing because they help get this information out and it's very very important because it reaches people that it normally wouldn't. Um, so yeah, that's what I I just agree with everything.

1:32:06 Thank you all. I appreciate that. And I I I want to say uh I what I want to point out there about the answers I just got back is I laid out what I thought was a pretty bleak scenario. The possibility of thousands of agents returning to a city that they've already attacked in this case Chicago that I'm talking to these folks about. Um laying out the possibility for even greater tensions and more violence. And the answers that I get back are one of just well we'll we'll we'll do more organizing. We'll come together more as a community. will put on another hat if it's cold. Like that resolve that you're seeing here now from people who are up here from another city. But the resolve you're also seeing here in the Twin Cities of even after one of their community members has been killed.

1:32:52 Something that Chicago also has experience with is it's just meant with resolve. People don't cower inside their homes. Tens of thousands of people have gotten out in the streets here in the Twin Cities. We've brought you those scenes and that's what you're seeing out here is just that rising passion from people that that need that desire to push back against what the federal government is doing out here. Thank you all for your time. I'll let you get together with uh with the you know some of your uh Twin Cities counterparts that you came here to demonstrate with.

1:33:26 Before I let you all go, is there anything anybody else wanted to add while you had the platform?

1:33:31 Just keep it up. Keep up the good work. Minneapolis, this is uh unprecedented. We haven't dealt with these numbers as you pointed out and you're doing a good job. Keep doing it.

1:33:40 Um people in other major towns in Chicago, please take notes of all the escalated tactics we're seeing in Minneapolis. Expect that we will come back to all these cities and do it double. Do it even more. And just use as your motivation to not do nothing, to be somebody who goes to a protest, somebody who cares. Please

1:34:00 start building your connections. Now, if ICE immigration enforcement isn't happening in your city, reach out to cities that have experienced it and start building out your toolkits. You know, North Carolina did that really well. Charlotte uh and Raleigh had poor people's campaign and they reached out often and early to build out their tool kits and they were able to get Border Patrol out early. So, um you know, it's it's got to happen to all of us and it's just best that we're prepared and we resist as a country. Thank you all very much for your time. I appreciate it.

1:34:33 Thank you. Yeah. Good to see you guys, too. I'm going to take a I'm going to take a quick break here off to the side of the camera just so I can stamp my feet a little bit around and and get warm. I'll have Will show you the show you the scenes out here as as we do so. And I'll be right back.

1:35:01 Yeah, you need this. I didn't take the tags off yet. Please. What is it? I don't want you to get your crossplay.

1:35:09 Oh, thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you so much. You're so welcome. What's your What's your name?

1:35:15 Oh, my name's Lori. Lori, nice to meet you. Thank you so much. Nice to meet you.

1:35:20 If you want a lesson in in Minnesota, nice in Midwest. Nice. is here. I just got delivered a Bali Clava from somebody here in the crowd who said they hadn't taken the tag off yet, but that we needed it out here. And

1:35:32 is anybody else We um I was just talking to my cameraman Will here off the off the side. I said, "Will, how you holding up?" He said, "My feet are feeling it pretty good." Meaning the cold. And I said to him, "I can't feel my feet at all. I can't feel my toes right now." So, I think we are going to draw this stream here to a close. It is very cold. It was negative7 with the wind show last we checked. We've been live for I don't know how long. I'm sure the cold makes it feel longer than it really is. But

1:36:02 if you if you've been with us this long, you've seen a lot. You've heard from a lot of these voices out here, the scenes that are out here on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day that is meant to honor the fight for civil rights in this country. A fight that continues with the demonstrations here in the Minneapolis area. In this case, the right not to be overly policed in their communities by a federal government that has a nearly limitless budget. Mass agents driving through their streets, disappearing their friends and neighbors. It's a story we will continue to follow this week. We're expecting demonstrations tomorrow evening at 4:30.

1:36:40 A march that we will be reporting live from. That's 4:30 Central time, 5:30 Eastern. Adjust for your time zone. And then on Friday, we're expecting a general strike here in the Twin Cities area. Something that people in city after city that we have reported from have called for, have asked for leadership for, and it's now happening here in the Twin Cities area. So follow along with us for that. Get subscribed if you're not. Thank you so much for being with us. I want to make one final plea. Go to statuscude.com/join.$5 $5 a month. If you feel like Will and I have earned it being out here in the cold, I certainly feel like we do. If you want to help support us, best thing you can do is go to statuscoo.com/join.

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JT Saskcowski (Host), Diane to Nyers (Guest), Keith Ellison (Guest), Morsa (Guest).

What is "LIVE STOP TRUMP'S ICE TERROR Protests as Trump DOJ TARGETS Protesters | LIVE From Minneapolis" about?

Protests are escalating in Minneapolis as demonstrators gather outside the Whipple Federal Building to oppose the Trump administration's increasing crackdown on the city and its residents, particularly in response to the deadly shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The protests, fueled by outrage over ongoing violence and federal occupation tactics, highlight a growing resistance against the…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including ICE, Diane to Nyers, Border Patrol, Henipin County Sheriff's Office, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Operation Metro Surge. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "LIVE STOP TRUMP'S ICE TERROR Protests as Trump DOJ TARGETS Protesters | LIVE From Minneapolis"?

The episode runs 1 h 39 min; the transcript is about 17,793 words in 184 timestamped sections.

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