SHOCKING New Video of ICE In Minneapolis Goes VIRAL

What this episode is about

The video capturing chaotic interactions between ICE agents and civilians in Minneapolis has sparked widespread outrage, highlighting tensions following a controversial administration decision to intensify enforcement in the area. Key points include the legality of filming ICE activities, allegations of excessive force, and the broader implications of federal law enforcement tactics on community safety and civil rights.

Key takeaways

• In chaos, legality is a slippery slope; filming ICE isn't a threat, but their reactions suggest fear.
• Surrounded by agents, what would you do? Conflicting orders create a perfect storm of panic.
• ICE's aggressive tactics aren't just law enforcement; they're radicalizing dissent in communities—dangerous precedent.
• Law enforcement filming citizens while refusing to document their actions raises eyebrows—who really controls the narrative?
• In a charged environment, one warning could escalate to violence; today's 'observe' can become tomorrow's 'impede.'

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• John (Guest) · 13 min speaking
• Jonathan (Guest) · 9 min speaking

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0:00 All right, we're back. Hi, John. Hi. Uh uh in the wake of the uh killing in Minneapolis uh and uh the administration basically doubling down on their operations in Minneapolis and St. Paul. There was a ton of chaos over the weekend. I think it's worth taking people through what people are seeing there. I want to start with a video out of a gas station in St. Paul. You know people hate

0:30 you know people hate YOU back up you guys Sorry. I'm sorry. I can't move. Hurry up.

1:13 Hurry up. Hurry up. So, there's two pieces of that video. First, you have basically someone filming ICE agents. Clearly, the the agents are getting angrier and angrier. He just lunges at this guy and then chases him and they all come in to some chase him and throw him in a car. They release that guy later that night. We also included the second part of that because what you see is in the like the in the the chaos of these moments, you have a person in a car being directed to leave, but there's agents all around the car and like put yourself in that situation and you're being told to move.

1:51 They're right next to your car. You're looking around. There's people all around. You're afraid you're going to do the wrong thing. you know, somebody was shot uh and being is now being accused of of being a domestic terrorist because after dropping their child off at school who's clearly trying to get around somebody in a similar circumstance. What did you think?

2:08 I mean, first of all, you're allowed to film ICE agents. It is completely legal.

2:13 Um the administration has basically now called that and ICE has called that like a threat. It's threatening, but it's not. Um the fact that they released the guy, the first guy, shows that they couldn't have charged him with anything, so he didn't commit any crime. So basically what they did is they just assaulted him.

2:27 Yeah. So federal law enforcement just decided to assault an individual who was filming them. Um and also there's like eight of them. You need that many agents. I mean the whole thing is absurd that we are somehow and this goes back to like what everyone was doing last week that we're like parsing the different angles of the and I and I get that. I did it myself too. But like the whole thing is absurd. there's no need for this many ICE agents. They're not doing targeted enforcement operations. They are going after people. They are basically delegitimizing the very idea of protest.

3:05 Um and of course that, you know, the second part about the the person that was in the car. Um this is what happens all the time when people are in car. They get conflicting uh orders from ICE. And I don't know if that's intentional. I don't know if ICE is just not coordinating with each other, which certainly seems possible as well, but I said George Reddus that happened to him. Um, there were early reports that it happened to Renee Good. Unclear if it did, but certainly in that situation, it wasn't get out of the car, it was go.

3:32 So, like, what are you supposed to do if you're in a car and you suddenly you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of ICE agents? ICE agents who are uh like radicalizing before our eyes who are uh uh clearly angry and there's adrenaline like the he the the the the moment where that person like where the agent like lunges at the camera he's just angry he's angry sick of being filmed sick of having a camera in his face there's so many of them uh and what and I look this is what look once the other agents see their officer now in some kind of a confrontation they h they have to jump in and it all very escalatory. There's a there's a video floating around of Boino going into a bathroom at a Target to take a piss

4:14 and he's just surrounded by agents. They like they they fank him uh like he's in like a hostile war zone. Uh and all of this just raises tension. Like these are people now we they are now going into these places. The people are shouting at them rightfully so that they don't want them in their communities and all of it is just a powder keg. uh and here and there we are seeing what happens. Um let's go to the next one. Uh this is somebody being kind of threatened while very calmly in their car and I and I think it's worth watching like the details of what it was like for this person.

5:01 Sir, this is your warning. This is your warning for what? STOP FOLLOWING US. YOU ARE IMPEDING OPERATIONS. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL government over here. I got to get to this. This is your warning.

5:12 Got to get to your house. Go home to your kids. Go to church. Go to home to your kids. THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING.

5:17 I serve the Lord. I will arrest you. Go to church. Let people out of this sir. Let the people

5:32 do that. I guarantee you're not going to like the outcome. Go home to your children.

5:36 It's Sunday. Yeah. Go. Exactly. Let people go to church. Not learn from what just happened. Go home.

5:42 Learn what? So he says, "Did you not learn from what just happened?" And the second video I've seen where someone says, "Didn't you learn from that?

5:49 Learn what? If I don't listen to you and stop exercising my first amendment rights, my right to just be a person in my own community, you're going to what? Kill me." That that's the lesson. And if you if you see this person is being told to stop, go home to your children, stop following us. U now they're starting to claim that like just following them to observe them is impeding. They're claiming that's now a violation of law. There's a person with a gun drawn on the other side of the car. Why is the gun out? And the other part of this is what you're seeing more and more too is the agents are all filming. They don't have body cams or they're claiming they don't use the body cams. Some of them may, some of them not. I don't know. But they're they're not releasing body cam footage, but they are filming. And so now you have a bunch of what? agents that are now all going to have their phones in one hand and their guns in the

6:32 other presumably, right? Because instead of having body cams that will record everything objectively to release, they will release subjectively whatever they want from the phones. We also have no idea what they're using for facial recognition and all those other things which, you know, go from sounding conspiratorial to seem obviously what is happening. But now they're now saying learn the lesson of what happened, which is if you don't what? follow an unlawful order. If you seem at all like you're annoying us, who knows what could happen.

7:03 Yeah. Well, that's I mean, they're using two sort of like broad legal uh standards, which is impeding impeding law enforcement operation and uh stalking

7:15 and using a vehicle as a deadly weapon, right? Which is so if you're in a car uh any any move you make in the car that they don't like, they can say, "Oh, you've weaponized your vehicle." And if you're around ICE and you're protesting or even if you're not protesting, even if you just happen upon them, they'll just say that anything you do that's annoying to them is impeding uh is impeding their investigation or impeding their uh enforcement operation. So, they can make that case if they want. Um it it's not like it's a real legal case.

7:43 Like you can of course they can say that anyone's impeding uh their investigation or impeding a law enforcement operation, but like that doesn't mean it's true. And also just all of this is a is a threat if inevitably if they were actually to follow this to its conclusion. Obviously they are threatening you that they're going to that you could be hurt that you'll never get to that point and they're dropping lots of charges if they were to bring something like that. But then at some point some judge would say what was impeded. I don't know if you heard the the Daily had an interview this morning with um the chief of police in Minneapolis and this is a guy who came in right after George Floyd and basically had to like rebuild the whole Minneapolis police department because most of them left and uh has really focused on like deescalation is getting interviewed about this and so like what did you think about you know the ICE

8:27 officers? He's like well first of all like it's basic training to never put yourself in front of a car like that. It's also like even even more important than that, the training is to deescalate in every situation possible because you want to build trust with the community. And so whenever possible, you want to deescalate and you want to go up to someone and say, "Name, registration, uh, could you please step out of this is why I'm pulling you over. This is," and you do that. And then if someone asks you a question that's, you know, even somewhat reasonable, you answer the question. And none of this is happening with ICE. none of that because they don't want to deescalate.

9:03 Well, they don't they don't want to deescalate and it's so much about dominance, right? It's it's they're not actually like they are they have so internalized this idea that they are like a on a righteous crusade against a um a like a left and kind of anti-American, you know, pro undocumented immigrant sort of group of of of like rabble rousers that they are now like they are like pilgrims in an unholy land which is Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uh you know, I spent a lot of time now in Minneapolis. My fiance is from Minneapolis. Like it was hitting me today when I was just looking at all of this because

9:42 people from Minneapolis, people from they love this place. It is a special place. It is a like a kind place. It's it's never been like, you know, you could have watched Fox News for the last 20 years. They've not spent a lot of time up until they started villainizing Somali immigrants saying that George Floyd

9:57 and George Floyd, but like that that Minneapolis is not like on the top 10 list of right-wing. It's San Francisco, New York, right? like LA, but like Minneapolis is just it's it's never been the focus of national attention in this kind of a prolonged way. Like it just isn't that it it just it's a place that seems like outside or like kind of uh um sort of not subject to this kind of like kind of interessing like v vitrial, right? It's just it's it's Minneapolis. It's like sweet calm Minneapolis. and they are they they've now sent what like 2,000 more people.

10:34 There's now what two or three times as many ICE agents in Minneapolis as there are police officers. Y

10:39 uh the other thing is if it if it was really about enforcement and you were really just trying to target uh you know undocumented immigrants who committed crimes or you think are a danger to the community or just people that you want to that are deportable. um you don't announce that you're coming and that you're bringing thousands of you know federal agents like because that also is going to tip off all the people like if you want an effective enforcement operation you slip in and you find your targets and you do that. That's not what they're doing. They they literally the the uh the day before Renee Good was murdered um they Homeland Security announced on on Twitter on in Instagram and everywhere else good morning Minneapolis like we're sending more like they they they are someone said that it was um it's basically um force as propaganda and that that is what I mean so much of this is they're fil they're

11:33 filming for reasons to like you know get out selected clips and stuff like that but also some of it's going to go out on on the government accounts.

11:41 Oh yeah, they're going to edit these things together. They're I I they I they were filming on on like nice cameras as Bavinos uh leaving the target bathroom. Like they're trying to put together, look how we're under assault, but we're doing, you know, we're serving the country.

11:53 The White House put out a compilation where one of the clips that they released was an ICE agent just teargassing a protester who wasn't doing anything. And they put that the government put that out

12:03 in that video that we just saw. The the the guy in the car is like, "Go to church." Uh, and one of the officers as he's walking away says, "Make America safe again." And to your point, they're not deescalating, but not only that, they don't see themselves as serving the person in that car. They serve Donald Trump, right? A lot of them have internalized that, too, because, you know,

12:26 Jonathan Ross is a um, turns out he's like a hardcore MAGA Christian uh, arguing with his family on social media about the Proud Boys. like the sky is everything you think.

12:39 You know, when JD Van says we should be turning the temperature down. It we never go to the ne like it's so absurd on its face. But but then you think, well, on some level they're hypocrites, but hypocrisy is their acknowledging what the value should be. They're not going to live by them, but they know what they should be. But it is worth thinking about like what would they be saying if they really were trying to turn the temperature down, right? And it would be about, hey, like we love Minneapolis and the people of Minneapolis, right? Look, we're we're, you know,

13:04 we're going after the worst of the worst and we respect the right to protest and we and and we're sorry if this is inconveniencing you. If you feel as though, you know, you you you feel as though you're like, you know, uh uh feel like uh insecure because of this. We don't mean that. Like like we want to work with you, right? Like there's a a host of things they could be saying and doing obviously more important, but that's not what's happening. Here's uh a confrontation that took place at a target and uh uh and this is again this is such a strange part of this now which is I I I believe what we should be doing like when you see random videos floating around the internet try to run them down like has a journalist looked at this what has the government said about this but it is increas first of all there's too much and journalism local has been decimated and you can't trust the government so you really are now forced

13:52 to just watch yourself and watch as other people piece together these videos, which is a dangerous thing. But we have this this conf this moment is now captured as always in multiple angles. And we now have footage of a of a a kid being arrested at a target um which is harrowing enough. And then uh in the in the manner of any kind of right-wing fascistic kind of paramilitary style is then thrown out of the car a few hours later. And uh uh let's watch it. you. you.

14:25 You guys are all on video. Jonathan Garcia. I'm literally a US citizen. Get the out of here.

14:36 Why are you kidnapping? Give us your What's the phone number we should call? That's my mom.

14:47 That's your mom. Call you. And your first name is Christian, right? No, I know.

14:53 This guy right here. They let him out of the vehicle. They tortured him. This guy.

14:57 This guy right here. Yeah. You okay, man? No. I'm not okay, bro. Shit's crazy. My man's bleeding. Bleeding.

15:10 They slam me on the ground. We got to be able to call somebody. That one really got me.

15:17 Jesus. the, you know, the in the in the response to the Renee Good killing, they're obviously lying and they're maligning this person. The the even on its face, right? It's just like, so your position is that she dropped their her her kid off at school and then decided to commit murder. Like that was the plan. Like, it's obviously ridiculous. Um but it actually is I think to me a larger it's it is their way of thinking which is uh there is no amount of force um that can't be justified that there's and also by the way like how they feel is what matters the most. Did he feel threatened even if they created the circumstance that they have an endless amount of like generosity and like um uh and consideration for people that they view as on their team, right? But then for somebody like this, right, for some that nothing, absolutely nothing that No, no, it was we we had a feeling we had a hunch for a second. This guy was

16:21 not extremely immediately and completely compliant. So, it is justified having a dozen people bash him to the ground, throw him into a car to verify he's a citizen, then throw him out of a Walmart parking lot. We're just doing our jobs. We're just trying to enforce our immigration laws, right? There's no like there's no sense of consideration. There's 100% total consideration uh for someone on their team. Zero consideration for anybody who might disagree with them. I mean, the Department of Homeland Security just posted about this and said, "Oh, he, you know, under 18 C, he impeded a law enforcement operation." Well, then why'd you throw him out of a van instead of charging him? It's just like it's all it it's all lies and they don't even care if they're good lies now. Yeah. They just want it is it's a it's we're going to use force. And I even think aside from broadcasting it, which they love to

17:09 do, even those ICE agents when they went into Target, whatever happened, they realized that like they can't let if this guy was like yelling at them or they can't let it go because other people are watching. And so they need to show dominance.

17:24 Yeah. And so once they get the guy in the van and they realize, oh we don't have anything to charge him with and he's a US citizen. um well, let's beat them up a little bit and throw them out of a van. And you know, the difficulty of suing them or or taking them to court is that these guys have, you know, they don't have absolute immunity like JD Vance, but they have qualified immunity. Um and so it's really difficult to sue them successfully as George Reis is has found out is finding out now. Um because if they are doing their job, they're in an official capacity and they're doing their job, they have a lot more leeway than they should.

18:04 The other thing that's happening too is that wherever these people are now going in Minneapolis, they're being hectored, right? If they're on the streets, if they're in a public place, people are now uh coming out and and yelling at them. And there is something that is happening where first of all, they're being trained for shorter and shorter periods of of time. There's a a moment where Mark Warner is pointing this out to a kind of a a CNBC panel that that that tends to not want to describe Trump as he actually is and more like the kind of smooth operator who is always kind of playing chess behind the scenes and he's like they're being trained for 47 days because he's the 47th president. That's ridiculous, indefensible.

18:41 And you have these poorly trained people uh a lot of whom are being recruited via these sort of this sort of right-wing propaganda. They have an idea in their mind of what it's going to be like. It isn't like that. That's the other thing I do think is happening. If you the the anger you're hearing for all the I am sure ways in which they are kind of telling a story about what's happening to each other and and from above, right? A lot of it's amazing how often Bovino is in these clips. He is there.

19:08 It's intentional. You can see it like they are feeling the difference between the idea of enforcing immigration laws in this way and the actual experience of it and what it's like to have your fellow Americans look you and say like you. like, "Fuck you for being here. you for doing this." And I do think that is creating like it's it's making all this tension worse. But I do think it's like you can see it that there that there's this that some of this anger is the delta between what they thought it would feel like and what it feels like to be like this inside of an American city. And there is like a little bit of a of a kernel of like of of of like hope inside. Like the reality of this is so brutal and so gruesome and so ugly. It's why Homeland Security is putting out all these videos trying to explain it and defend it. They know that this is not good. Like they can do all the bluster they want. They

19:54 know that the American people do not like seeing this happen in an American city.

19:59 Yeah. That's why they have to lie all the time. Let's just end with this one moment. Um just to give you a sense too about the kind of like uh uh strange and like fishistic propaganda that the administration is putting out. This is something that the Department of Labor put out. Let's see. Let's see this.

20:23 I just don't know who that's for. I don't like that's for such a narrow slice of their most online groper base.

20:35 Yes. Um it's just very I don't know. Yeah, I see that and I'm not like like the videos really disturb me. That's I'm like that's weird.

20:46 Yeah, it is really weird. I just that the people in charge of social media for various government agencies are fully right-wing online uh white nationalist pill if they're not in the I love Hitler group chat. They certainly uh they certainly enjoy they wish they were.

21:03 Yeah, they just weren't invited. Is everyone hanging out without me? All right. Well, we'll we'll have more to say and Pod Save America will be out tomorrow morning. Uh, that's it for us.

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The video capturing chaotic interactions between ICE agents and civilians in Minneapolis has sparked widespread outrage, highlighting tensions following a controversial administration decision to intensify enforcement in the area. Key points include the legality of filming ICE activities, allegations of excessive force, and the broader implications of federal law enforcement tactics on community…

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