Newsweek, "Trump's DOJ announces arrest of 16 Minnesota protesters:"

[Botany]

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that 16 people have been arrested in Minnesota for allegedly “assaulting federal law enforcement” amid ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Tensions over federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and elsewhere have intensified in recent days after federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti. The killing came just days after ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, and after another encounter in the city left Venezuelan migrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis wounded during an attempted arrest, authorities said.

Bondi wrote in a Wednesday afternoon X post, “I am on the ground in Minneapolis today. Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents. We expect more arrests to come.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-doj-announces-arrest-of-16-minnesota-protesters-full-list-of-names/ar-AA1Vc54W

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For those who think replacing Bovino with Holman and moving “Noem on the Range” out of the
picture is gonna change Trump’s war on American citizens they might be wrong.

If you read the article many of those arrested by the D o J had filed complaints about their treatment
by Trump’s ICE and Homeland Security goons.

[newdeal2]

1. Let's see those conviction rates

DOJ has been abysmal and juries are not sympathetic to Trump’s goons.

[Botany]

6. Well of the 620 odd people that were "arrested" in Chicago only something like a dozen had criminal records.

This is Trump and Miller’s war on any American that didn’t vote for him. @ least that is how I see it.

[duckworth969]

25. Zero convictions of protestors in Chicago Blitz Operations

“The U.S. Attorney's Office has brought 31 non-immigration criminal cases to court related to Operation Midway Blitz. So far, there have been zero convictions.”

https://abc7chicago.com/post/many-charges-brought-chicago-us-attorneys-office-stemming-operation-midway-blitz-dropped-not-guilty-verdicts/18458531/

[Martin Eden]

30. INTIMIDATE and PUNISH

Bondi probably knows there will be few if any convictions, but the defendants will incur lawyer fees and miss work, possibly lose their jobs.

[johnnyfins]

2. Oh Pammy. Arresting protestors?

Not a good look, but will make for wonderful testimony at your trial.

[Lovie777]

3. Homan and Bondi are incompetent and unqualified...............

like the rest of this madness of the present administration, shithole's government.

[superpatriotman]

4. Are we great again enough yet?

I feel safer already. Not.

[gab13by13]

5. Holman is the brains behind family separations,

He is the architect.

[Lonestarblue]

9. Actually, I think Stephen Miller is the brains for this violence against citizens and noncitizens.

He was the architect of Trump’s violence during his first term, ripping babies and toddlers away from parents and putting them in cages, including nursing babies. Miller and Homan are both evil.

[Harker]

15. The sick, twisted "brains", maybe.

They're both evil, alright. I'm unable to view the venal Homan's new assignment as an improvement over his predecessor.

[otchmoson]

7. Replacing Bovino with Homan

is like [soiling] your pants and changing your shirt.

[Botany]

20. Great analogy

Both of them are despicable.

[otchmoson]

8. Resisting arrest and assaulting an officer . . .

these are ubiquitous terms used by the administration to demonize protesters. Today I listened to a Canadian podcaster warning his fellow Canadians the risks they took by touring to the U.S. He explained that Canadians are not exempt; and should they be thrown to the ground by federal agents, flailing around as you struggle to breathe or alleviate a pain while bearing the weight of 2, or 3, or 4 agents on top of your body, will be described as "resisting arrest." Unfortunately, he did not go further to describe that even touching an agent can be re-framed as "assaulting a federal agent." Good job, Bondi . . . you excel as an administration mouthpiece.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. Yeah like that one 'assault' that was being passed around.

You may have see it. The ICE goons are having one of their show off sessions where they surround their facility and act like they are under attack when it is just protestors exercising their 1st Amendment rights. They do not trespass. They do not instigate.

So, one of the goons suddenly grabs one of the protestors and drags them across the 'line of death' they the goons had established. Then, they use that to say that they are 'under attack' and that the 'agitators' are 'being aggressive' and they felt in danger ' for their lives'. As soon as the person was dragged over the line, the goons started attacking everyone on the street.

This is not about immigration and it is not about public safety. It is a revenge move and should always be stated as such. Never refer to their presence as 'immigration enforcement' or anything of the kind. They are the Stazi. They are the Nazi. They are the good squad that the regime wanted to be their little army that is not beholden to our laws. So, they created one. We should have done something then, but the goddamned centrists yet again decided to be banal about the whole thing.

And, here we are. There is a literal goons squad invading this state, as well as others who have not 'kissed the ring'. We don't plan to do that either. So, they occupy the state and force us too bend the knee. But, we won't do that. So, now, it is war, despite what some rose-colored glasses wearing people are saying otherwise.

When will we stop letting those with vested interests in keeping the same situation going on. They are getting something out of this, and I find that interesting... and worth a close look.

Not that it will happen, but I think it should.

[llmart]

22. I watched that video and...

saw no less than 6 goons "restraining" one man who looked to be a not very large man also. It looked like they were trying to surround him lying flat on the ground so that it would make it more difficult for any videos being taken to capture what they were doing. Then they could make up any story they wanted about what happened.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. S.O.P. for those 'skinwasters'. (n/t)

[bronxiteforever]

10. Where are the body cam videos Pam?

Are these in your desk with the Epstein files?

[ColoringFool]

11. Must Have Been Where Nobody Was Filming.

[33taw]

18. We need to film everywhere.

[GiqueCee]

12. Even as Pam Bondi...

... wallows in her rancid stew of malice and depravity, she must realize that the wheels are coming off the Konservative Klown Kar, and that her future is bleak, indeed.
Maybe it's time, Pamela, for you to retire to a farm upstate where you can frolic in the thorny brambles of the bad decisions that brought you to this sorry end.

[Jill Hanson]

13. Liar!

How can any fair minded person with a reasonable level of intelligence believe anything this administration says when they constantly tell us to disbelieve what we’re seeing with our own eyes?

[MadameButterfly]

16. This is where it has always been headed

Imprisonment of dissenters. Trumped up charges (no pun intended). This is how it's done in Russia.
Here's hoping our justice system and what remains of our free press can put a stop to it.
Let's hope Americans are smarter than they think we are.

Meanwhile, the 16 need to be protected from the Trump base and supported in getting the legal defense they deserve. They are us. If their speech and freedom isn't protected, none of ours is.

[kerouac2]

17. Minnesota is just training ground

They picked a state with a manageable amount of immigrants so they can practice, hire more ice thugs to grow their militia and desensitize Americans to what they are doing.

[Joinfortmill]

19. 1960s revisited.

[sl8]

21. Note that that source is *Newsweek*, not *MS NOW*. nt

[Botany]

24. Thanks ... I was going from the MS @ the top of the page. I will correct it.

Botany =

[yaesu]

26. Getting medieval on the fascist pigs may be next, En mass, test if the military is willing to murder their own friends &

family to protect the orange turd empire. Once We The People see another election stole from US that will be the only option. A good place to start is the gated communities of the uber rich, the soft underbelly of fascism, the ones keeping the fascists in power.

[maxrandb]

27. You're not a criminal just because some watery tart threw an accusation at you

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[infullview]

28. Bondi considers filming "impeding"

According to an account of someone who faced down one of these ICE a-holes in Maine, he was quoted some bullshit statute that impeding a federal officer is considered unlawful and you can be arrested. The man with the cell phone who was following the ICE agent repeatedly corrected that following was not interfering, and filming also was not interfering, the ICE a-hole still held that if he didn’t stop that he would arrest him. It’s all about fear and intimidation.

[CanonRay]

29. Good luck getting indictments

Let alone convictions