NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED

What this episode is about

A recent viral video showcasing an encounter between ICE agents and a man on the street has sparked outrage, highlighting concerns over racial profiling and due process in immigration enforcement. The incident reveals the perception of aggressive tactics by authorities in Minneapolis and Los Angeles, amid escalating tensions and threats from the Trump administration regarding the use of military forces and heightened crackdowns on undocumented immigrants.

Key takeaways

• When ICE uses accents to justify paperwork checks, it reveals a chilling bias over due process.
• Minneapolis feels like a surveillance state; unlike LA, ICE here has a striking presence everywhere.
• Detaining someone without formal charges? Just a tactical loophole—welcome to the world of shadow law enforcement.
• Power trips aren't just for the privileged; ICE reveals a thuggish culture trickling down from the top.
• Harassment disguised as law enforcement tactics: sending a message that intimidation reigns supreme in communities.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Dan (Guest) · 7 min speaking
• Unknown Host (Host) · 11 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Dan Pfeiffer, Insurrection Act, chaos
2. 6:00 – 9:00: chaos, thuggery
3. 9:00 – 12:00: Insurrection Act, Renee Mlin Good, Latinos, Trump 2024
4. 12:00 – 15:00: Insurrection Act, civil disobedience, freedoms
5. 15:00 – 17:47: Dan Pfeiffer, Renee Mlin Good, pro-democracy media, Cook Unity

Notable quotes from "NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED"

• Chaos continues to unfold in Minneapolis and in Minnesota. The administration continues to threaten escalation. Trump is now threatening to, invoke the Insurrection Act.…

  about Insurrection Act · at 0:06

• So, Dan, we have somebody basically being grabbed off the street and the officer explicitly saying, I am I'm asking for your papers because you have an accent. Yeah, it is the it embodies.

  about Dan Pfeiffer · at 1:06

• Because if the if people come to the conclusion as they are watching these videos that this level of chaos, this level of thuggery, this level of conflict is making us less…

  about chaos · at 8:38

• And that is that's the that's a collapse of the coalition. And you also see the numbers very strongly with Latinos, right? who were who was a group who sort of counterintuitively for a lot of liberals who sometimes approached.

  about Latinos · at 9:33

• And in their view, the people who are peacefully standing in the street doing civil disobedience to protect their rights, protect the freedoms of others and the rights of others, they are the enemy. Right? Well, there's the.

  about civil disobedience · at 14:27

• There's a ton of people trying to discredit these protests, trying to blame Renee Good for her own death, trying to defend what is indefensible. And the more people that can get behind what we're doing here,.

  about Renee Mlin Good · at 16:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Dan Pfeiffer — Person · Co-host / main interlocutor · 2 mentions · first at 0:00
  Dan discusses on-the-ground reports and political implications of ICE actions and Trump's threats, reacting to clips and framing them as authoritarian and politically damaging.
• Renee Mlin Good — Person · Referenced victim / contested narrative subject · 2 mentions · first at 9:25
  Renee Good is cited as someone right-wing media allegedly blames for her own death and labels a 'domestic terrorist,' while the hosts cite polling showing some Trump voters reject that framing.

Concepts & topics

• Insurrection Act — Concept · Core escalation mechanism discussed · 3 mentions · first at 0:16
  The Insurrection Act is presented as a threatened tool Trump may invoke, heightening fears of federal militarized intervention against an American state.
• chaos — Concept · Framing concept for events and political narrative · 2 mentions · first at 0:06
  Chaos is used to describe conditions created by enforcement escalation and as a key lens for how the public evaluates safety and legitimacy of government actions.
• civil disobedience — Concept · Normative framework for protest · 1 mention · first at 14:33
  Civil disobedience is framed as a patriotic American tradition used to protect rights and freedoms against state overreach.
• pro-democracy media — Concept · Call-to-action / mission framing · 1 mention · first at 16:21
  The hosts argue that building pro-democracy media is necessary to counter right-wing narratives and support democratic resistance on the ground.
  It really does help us build a bigger pro-democracy media. And that's what we need. We need pro-democracy media to support people standing up for democracy on the ground. So…
• thuggery — Concept · Moral characterization of enforcement tactics · 1 mention · first at 8:44
  Thuggery is used to describe masked agents using intimidation and violence without due process, reinforcing the episode's authoritarianism frame.
  Conclusion as they are watching these videos that this level of chaos, this level of thuggery, this level of conflict is making us less safe, not more safe, the entire…
• Trump 2024 — Concept · Electoral coalition reference · 1 mention · first at 9:21
  Trump 2024 voters are cited as a measurable subgroup showing erosion in support for current tactics, used to argue political vulnerability.
  When you look at this, there is now 15 to 20% of not just Republicans, but Trump 2024 voters who do not like what's happening, who think the shooting was not justified, who…
• Latinos — Concept · Demographic/political group discussed · 1 mention · first at 9:36
  Latinos are discussed as a key constituency whose views on immigration and 'chaos' may be shifting against Trump's approach.
• freedoms — Concept · Values claim tied to protest and rights · 1 mention · first at 14:33
  Freedoms are invoked as something protesters protect for themselves and others, contrasting with perceived police-state tactics.
  And in their view, the people who are peacefully standing in the street doing civil disobedience to protect their rights, protect the freedoms of others and the rights of…

Sponsors

• Cook Unity — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 16:38
  Cook Unity is promoted in the ad read as a meal delivery service; it is not part of the political discussion but appears as sponsorship content.
  To see you and we'll we'll keep coming back to you as we learn more in the days ahead. Bye, everyone. Pods save America is brought to you by Cook Unity.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Hey everybody, I'm here with Dan. Love it. How are you living the dream? Uh, obviously, uh, chaos continues to unfold in Minneapolis and in Minnesota. The administration continues to threaten escalation. Trump is now threatening to, uh, invoke the Insurrection Act. Meanwhile, we want to keep you updated on just what it feels like to be on the ground. So, let's go to this uh first clip that captures uh a moment in which somebody was uh grabbed by ICE off the street.

0:30 Yes, you are required to. Where are you, Faith? Look, sir, are you going to do this the easy way or are we going to take you in?

0:36 You cannot take me in privately. Yes, I can. Do you have documentation? I do have my documentation.

0:46 You present it to me. Why are you asking me for my paperwork? Because of your accent?

0:51 I still You have an accent, too. Where were you born, sir? Where were you born at?

0:57 Put your hands behind your back. So, Dan, we have somebody basically being grabbed off the street and the officer explicitly saying, "I am I'm asking for your papers because you have an accent." Yeah, it is the it embodies everything that's happening here. It's just a bunch of guys on a power trip without any concern for due process or, you know, any of our other constitutional rights. Just grabbing insisting someone do someone. If they don't do it, they arrest him. You know, we're here in Los Angeles and obviously Trump had deployed the military here.

1:38 There have been periods in which ICE was doing a big crackdown, a big showy crackdown here. And Trump would describe Los Angeles as a hell hole in a war zone, but it didn't feel that way on the ground. You hear reports about ICE being at a Home Depot. You hear reports about ICE uh uh coalesing around other parts of the city. You felt the presence. You knew it was going on, but it didn't feel like it was happening everywhere because Los Angeles as a city is a big place and ICE didn't have the scale, didn't feel like it was bringing the scale to match the size of Los Angeles. It is just not that way in Minneapolis. And and What it is, what is clear when you talk to to friends and family in Minneapolis, when you hear reports from Minneapolis is what we are seeing is what it feels like. They really are everywhere. They really are having a big impact on what it feels like to live in and work and go

2:30 to school in Minneapolis because everywhere you go, there is the possibility that a group of guys are going to jump out of a of an unmarked car wearing masks to interrogate you or to go after the people following them or to uh uh uh rough to to get rough with protesters, throw people uh into holding cells because they're annoying them, I guess. And you see that like this whoever this officer is who's obviously wearing a mask is saying I'm stopping you because of your accent which just reveals a what their goal is and b that they're just poorly trained. Like they're not equipped to explain what they're doing in a way that isn't unconstitutional.

3:09 Yeah. Uh all right, let's go let's go to the next uh uh clip. Ekkan followed out onto the streets of Woodbury as ICE agents led him to his own somewhat private neighborhood and passed his own home. must have run my plate because they drove into my neighborhood and into my culde-sac where I live. Uh there's no circumstance where they would have rolled through there without knowing that. He stayed behind them until they stopped him.

3:34 Just fine. What can I do for you? One warning for what? You will not be following us anymore or you will be arrested.

3:38 I can follow you wherever I want. You will be arrested. A little while later, they follow through on that threat.

3:44 You've been warned that you're continuing to follow us and you're breaking a lot of uh

3:47 Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Hell no. Nope. We warned you, sir? Nope. One of those ICE agents went into the back seat, gave me a choke hold around the uh the driver's headrest, unbuckled my seat belt from behind me in my car. Uh and those five agents uh pulled me to the street, uh put me in cuffs, and put me in an unmarked van. And ICE agents technically never arrested Ecklland. They did cause several injuries, including a black eye and other marks on his face. And they held him at a detention facility for more than 9 hours.

4:19 Nine hours. Nine hours. Never technically arrested and looked up his looked up his plates or did something to bring

4:28 That is the craziest part of this. It's so up. They brought him to his own house to what? Send a message that they had looked him up to to to to intimidate him.

4:38 Yeah. To send a message that they can get him wherever he is. Right. So he's following them. They look in the rearview mirror. They He's following them as he is allowed to do legally. something to stop him from doing it. They look up his plates. They run his plates. Then they lead him to his own home to send that message. Then they arrest him anyway or detain him, I guess, cuz he's never actually arrested, which is this giant loophole they keep running through. And look at the bruises on his face. Like, how does that happen?

5:01 There's no charges, right? They never seem to have been able to claim he broke any law. And by the way, it's a small moment, but when the off the the officer pulls at his door, he says something like, "You break you're breaking a lot of laws." Doesn't say what, you know, doesn't doesn't accuse him of anything specific, but just sort of like, "You're you're breaking laws. I have I'm going to I'm going to grab you because you're breaking laws." This is a uh my understanding is like a somewhat prominent person in the area that people know and are seeing that like look what is happening. Look at what they're doing here. Look at how they're harassing people. I mean, this is just this is just old school thuggish uh uh like right-wing militia behavior following.

5:43 It's a paramilitary group that is running rampant. And this idea where they are just detaining people instead of arresting them is a like I said, it's a loophole that goes through where they don't actually have any probable cause. They don't have to ver justify why they did it. They bring it, they cuff him up, they rough him up, they take him to a detention center, they leave them there for a long time, then they let him go, and that's it. They never have to explain why they did it, why they let him go, why they why they picked him up, why they let him go, because they had there these people are breaking no laws.

6:10 They're committing no crimes, and there's no evidence to suggest either one of those things. So, they're just trying to intimidate them one by one. And this is partly why among many good reasons a free society doesn't have agents of the state wearing masks because when you are because they are not acting as individuals they are acting on behalf of the government. And so if they are acting on behalf of the government and they do not follow the law, they do not follow procedure, they stop being agents of the state and they start being people that you can investigate, that you can uh question, that you can sue, uh because uh you're supposed to be able to say it, that's the guy, that's the guy that that grabbed me. That's the guy that that bruised my face or cut my seatelt or g put me in a a chokeold. That's the one.

6:59 And either the government stands behind what that person did or they don't. But when you were but but they are not as individuals given whatever they're now saying this phrase absolute immunity which no human being on earth has ever had. Uh and uh uh the masks are part of it. And so we have they're grabbing people. They're there was that the kid in front of the in front of the Target or the Walmart who was grabbed uh basically beaten up thrown into a car and then they dropped him off at a different parking lot. He had to kind of find his way back. That's that is what authoritarian governments do. That's what dictators do. They grab you. They scare you. They dump you out of the side of a car. That is not something that is supposed to happen in the United States of America. And I do think I don't know, Dan, like there was a you know, the the I'm always wary of polling that says what Donald Trump is

7:50 doing on illegal immigration is unpopular. Not that I think it is popular, but I I do think that the the Trump theory is that people don't like it, but they still come away seeing him as someone who's willing to do the hard strong thing and like it gives him some sort of like credibility in a deeper, harder to measure way. Like I think they have a more sophisticated understanding how people answer questions sometimes than Democrats do. That said, I think this is alienating to just about everybody. And so John and I talked about this a little bit on Friday's pod, but in the CNN poll, they asked people, "Does the deployment of ICE agents make cities more safe or less safe?" And a majority said less safe. And I think that's an absolutely essential finding because if the if people come to the conclusion as they are watching these videos that this level of chaos, this level of thuggery, this level of conflict is making us less

8:48 safe, not more safe, the entire political narrative around immigration for Trump collapses. I think that's really that's really important because as we think about how to talk about this, how to react to it is yes, you have these things that show that that immigration is that things Trump is doing is unpopular and usually get to that those majority numbers with 85 to 90% of Democrats, twothirds of Republicans, and 10% of Republicans, sorry, 10 two-thirds of independents, 10% of Republicans. And when you look at when you look at this, there is now 15 to 20% of not just Republicans, but Trump 2024 voters who do not like what's happening, who think the shooting was not justified, who think Renee Good was not a domestic terrorist, who think the officer should be charged with with crimes, who think ISIS is going too far.

9:33 And that is that's the that's a collapse of the coalition. And you also see the numbers very strongly with Latinos, right? who were who was a group who sort of counterintuitively for a lot of liberals who sometimes approached immigration in a simple-minded way assumed that Latinos are would be against Trump's immigration policies on you know on merit but in that election a lot of them went you know they they didn't like what was happening at the border they didn't like the chaos and now you're seeing a worse situation and so like like yes we should try to we should try to think strategically about how this all plays itself out but there's just no question in my mind that this is very very bad politically for Trump. And there's a report in Axios today that believes they now think that they just did a meeting the White House did where they reviewed all Trump's immigration numbers and they're in the

10:17 toilet and they're trying to think about whether they have to recalibrate. That doesn't mean they're going to start being better, but at least but they are getting the message. They're starting to worry that this is hurting them politically.

10:27 I also think it's worth saying like why is this happening? Why why is this starting to hurt them politically? It is because uh people are standing up to them

10:37 and the people are filming, people are talking about their own experiences and you're seeing more and more uh interviews and people on the street who maybe haven't been part of protest before. Uh maybe have never been uh uh felt this way about the government before, never felt scared of their the government before, never felt like this was going to actually happen to them or to people that they they knew. And I do think that matters. And so when you see Trump threaten to evoke the insurrection act or you see Trump post that like great people of Minnesota your retribution is coming like I I think that's a we should be worried about that. We should take that threat really really seriously. But we should also know that that is bluster and behind it they are like they are not immune to political pressure. They are not immune to bad images and one of Trump's tricks is pretending otherwise. But it matters

11:24 that people are standing up to him. Okay, let's uh on that note go to one last uh clip.

11:31 Well, this is ridiculous. It's a waste of money, a waste of time. All these men out here for what?

11:38 What inspired you to come out here? Well, I can't I just couldn't sit home. I've been in marches and stuff and I had to do something. It's so You know what can you do other than wait till we vote again? But this is just crazy. I don't believe they have all these men for what? A few people that are against people doing wrong things. That's all.

12:01 Oh, this is too bad. This is shameful. Uh I live in Minneapolis. I'm from live in Minnesota most of my life and I took a half day off of work just so I could be down here.

12:14 The president uh has uh said is basically threatening to uh use the insurrection act. What is it like to have that threatened by the president of the United States against a a state, an American state?

12:26 Yeah, it's intense. It's uh all of us have other things to be doing, you know, it and what's going to happen is that Minneapolis is still going to take care of each other.

12:35 I love hearing that that first woman do uh basically hear her talking about this in that great like Minnesota Scandinavian accent being like, "Yeah, of course I'm going to come out here and take on the fascist." but said in the sweetest way by like I believe she's like maybe hit by tear. She was like wiping her face because she's out there. Uh and uh there's um I was talking about this last night at Love It or Leave It. And you know, as this is all unfolding, all the the the social media uh uh managers at all the different government agencies of the Trump administration are feeling they're feeling their their their loins and they're like posting all this like groper agit prop like you know uh remember yourselves America, you know, one of ours, one of yours, all that stuff. And the one of the ones they always post is like America is for Americans and that's something Steven Miller has said and and they we know

13:32 what they mean when they say it. But uh I do think like it is reassuring, right, that like America is still also filled with Americans and they're not interested in living in a police state. Not even and even plenty of Republicans are uh able to see through the Trump line on this because they have that libertarian rebellious streak in them that makes them really discomfort, really uncomfortable with state power. Part of the reason the second amendment has such purchase is because they are afraid of state power and don't want a state power uh state monopoly on violence. And I do think that is a that is a check. It still is a check that people just don't want to live in a country that feels like this. It is sort of in the long history of this country the battle to define what being an American is. And in the Trumpetelling of it, it's obviously anyone who is white, anyone who's been here a long time.

14:27 And in their view, the people who are peacefully standing in the street doing civil disobedience to protect their rights, protect the freedoms of others and the rights of others, they are the enemy. Right? Well, there's the alternative version of the story. The one that our old boss used to talk about all the time. The one that goes through suffrage, civil rights, Stonewall, everything that's ever happened is that there is the most patriotic embodiment of the ideal of American values is protest to try to make this a better country to people who have the guy who's taking a half day off work, that woman who's standing out there, the people who are sharing these videos on social media, which is a very, very powerful thing that's helping shift the politics here. That is the most American thing.

15:10 Like that is the proof like that what Trump is is arguing for is wrong is what people are doing. And it's very very very powerful.

15:17 Yeah. Uh shout out to everybody in Minneapolis and Minnesota who are uh trying their best to protect people and stand up for their communities and making sure the word gets out. My fiance is from Minnesota. I love Minneapolis. And uh I do think Trump messed with the wrong group of people because um there's a there's a kind of quiet pride to that place that I think you're seeing and I think it is beautiful and on that

15:46 uh I also think it's great when people subscribe to this channel. Say very very

15:51 great transition. Uh we are trying to get the word out. We are trying to do our best to um help people understand what's happening in this moment. There's a ton of right-wing news out there. There's a ton of people uh trying to discredit these protests, trying to uh blame uh Renee Good for her own death, trying to uh uh defend what is indefensible. And the more people that can get behind what we're doing here, just by clicking subscribe or sharing this video or commenting on this video, it really does help us uh build a bigger pro-democracy media. And that's what we need. We need pro-democracy media to support people standing up for democracy on the ground. So, thank you, Dan. Good to see you and uh we'll we'll keep coming back to you as we learn more in the days ahead. Bye, everyone. Pods save America is brought to you by Cook Unity.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED"?

Dan (Guest), Unknown Host (Host).

What is "NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED" about?

A recent viral video showcasing an encounter between ICE agents and a man on the street has sparked outrage, highlighting concerns over racial profiling and due process in immigration enforcement. The incident reveals the perception of aggressive tactics by authorities in Minneapolis and Los Angeles, amid escalating tensions and threats from the Trump administration regarding the use of military…

What is mentioned in this Pod Save America episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Insurrection Act, Dan Pfeiffer, Renee Mlin Good, chaos, civil disobedience, pro-democracy media. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 3,438 words in 41 timestamped sections.

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