"Taken Wednesday in Minneapolis, it shows an unidentifiable protester face down on the ground; two Border Patrol agents are on top of him, holding him there, while a third unloads pepper spray into his face from just inches away. The photo ran on the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune on Friday and already feels like a defining image of the long ICE incursion in Minneapolis-a powerful illustration of how the agency has acted, in broad daylight, with excessive force and impunity."
"There's also the photo of a 5-year-old boy being detained outside his home. There's the video of an agent chasing a teenager through the snow on a residential street as the boy yells "I'm legal" in Spanish. And yesterday, the world saw footage of Alex Pretti, a nurse who worked in the ICU of a Veterans Affairs hospital, as agents pepper-sprayed him, knocked him down, appeared to remove a legally permitted gun from his person"
Border Patrol and ICE agents carried out a prolonged incursion in Minneapolis marked by incidents of apparent excessive force. Photographs show agents pinning a protester face down while another sprayed his face at close range. Additional images and videos capture a 5-year-old being detained, an agent chasing a teenager as the youth shouts in Spanish that he is legal, and footage of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, being pepper-sprayed, knocked down, and stripped of a legally permitted firearm. In the past 18 days, agents have used force against numerous people and killed two individuals, with much of the violence visible in photographic and video evidence.
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