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What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-lawsuit-george-floyd-protest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p78#a251208p78

I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.

I (miss) remembered this including FPS. (I don't see FPS listed now, thus the quick delete and edit. Apologies.)
FPS has worked with CBP in the past. FPS and CBP were "protecting" federal buildings back in 2020 during the George Floyd uprising.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-federal-police-are-kidnapping-and-brutalizing-protesters-in-portland/

The school year began with a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis,
where two children died and at least 24 others were injured.
Local families barely had time to process those deaths — only five years after the killing of George Floyd rocked their city — before their daily lives were upended by the chaotic presence of federal officers harassing citizens under the guise of immigration enforcement.
A teacher named Sarah in the Twin Cities told me tha…

Opinion | Welcome to the Resistance, Public School Parents
School communities are central to organizing against federal harassment.

Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case (Michael Biesecker/Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/family-of-alex-pretti-retains-lawyers-who-helped-prosecute-the-george-floyd-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p128#a260128p128

How Right Wing Influencers Used AI Slop to Turn Renee Good Into a Meme https://www.404media.co/ai-renee-good-kirkification-george-floyd-memes/

On a related note, a reminder of the timeline of 2020:
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent immediately after the police murdered George Floyd.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the video became public.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the protests started.
Things turned chaotic and violent when they brought charges against Chauvin, and the police flipped out and went on a rage-fueled bender of mass tear-gassing the peaceful protests.

The article glosses over Mayor Frey’s catastrophic ineffectiveness in the days after the murder of George Floyd, but that’s a detail that stands out just to a local; the large argument of the piece rings true.

Oh, Jenny Durkan, the attorney in question, became the Mayor of Seattle. She was later found to have destroyed public records related to the police response to the George Floyd uprising. Gee... I wonder if anyone could possibly have predicted this?
#Seattle folks

So yeah, as @… is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.
BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712

I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”
…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.
I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.

Thanks to @… for teaching me the word “lustration” today.
Failure to undertake sufficiently wide-reaching lustration and vetting of the Minneapolis Police is in my view one of the major failure of city government after the murder of George Floyd. It’s one of the reasons I’m still bitter about Mayor Frey, notwithstanding his excellent words on the national stage these past couple of months. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115955982521903310