"Patty O'Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle, said agents "broke our two front windows and dragged us out," then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good, the mother of three shot dead earlier this month by an ICE agent."
"Indigenous residents have also been detained. "Nobody is more American than the American Indian," Oglala Sioux attorney Chase Iron Eyes told Democracy Now!, adding ICE's actions against Native Americans are "a legal impossibility." This comes as the Pentagon has placed 1,500 soldiers on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, just days after President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act."
ICE agents in Minneapolis engaged in confrontations with legal observers and community members, including breaking vehicle windows and forcibly removing people from vehicles. Detained observers reported verbal taunts and references to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent. Indigenous residents faced detention, and Oglala Sioux attorney Chase Iron Eyes characterized ICE actions against Native Americans as a legal impossibility and affirmed Native American belonging. The Pentagon placed 1,500 soldiers on standby for potential deployment to Minnesota after a presidential threat to invoke the Insurrection Act. The administration opened criminal inquiries into state and city officials while declining to investigate Good's killing.
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