Anarchy: Minneapolis Activists Harass And Attack Anyone They Suspect of Being ICE
One beating of a passerby stopped when one of the attackers told his comrades, “He’s one of us.”
Minneapolis police appeared to be missing in action as anti-ICE agitators carried out a series of alarming incidents, some violent, throughout the city on Saturday. In some instances, the mere perception that an individual might be pro-ICE was enough to draw the demonstrators’ ire.
One media outlet went so far as to claim that the MPSD had “completely turned over the city to leftists, as they are now forming groups to hunt down anyone who appears to support ICE, with this man [in the clip below] being saved by the feds just moments before being beaten for simply wearing camo.”
Actually, the beating stopped when one of the agitators shouted to his comrades, “He’s one of us.”
BREAKING – Minneapolis police have completely turned over the city to leftists, as they are now forming groups to hunt down anyone who appears to support ICE, with this man being saved by the feds just moments before being beaten for simply wearing camo. pic.twitter.com/4b29KEx79F
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 17, 2026
In an extraordinary development on Saturday, anti-ICE agitators mistakenly identified a group of five tech engineers who were having lunch at a Minneapolis deli as undercover ICE agents and accosted them.
Alpha News later spoke to “Lee,” one of the five, who recounted the episode. Lee explained that as the men were eating, one of them received an alert on his phone from an anti-ICE Signal chat group he belongs to titled, “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response.” The message said that “plainclothes ICE agents” were dining at the Clancy Deli and that it had been “confirmed by the owner” of the restaurant.
“My friend was shocked,” Lee said. “He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE.”
It wasn’t long before protesters “surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave.”
“One of us is pro-ICE, one anti-ICE, others on the fence,” Lee told Alpha. “After this, I think some of them are rethinking everything.”
EXCLUSIVE: Tech workers say they were mistaken for ICE agents, accosted by anti-ICE mob
What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and… pic.twitter.com/aca4QUb8mF
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 17, 2026
In another case, a man wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the U.S. flag and the word “freedom” was forced to take it off if he didn’t want to get hurt.
Anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis harass a man for wearing a hoodie that says "Freedom" and force him to take it off
They call him a "Nazi f–k" and tell him to “Take it off and you won’t get hurt!”
Video: @Julio_Rosas11 pic.twitter.com/GYHR8KPQDa
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 17, 2026
It’s only 10 degrees outside and below zero with the wind chill, and this mostly white, fascist mob stripped a lone Latino man of his jacket on the streets of Minneapolis while taunting him.
COWARDS!
— Morning Glory 🇺🇸🌼🇺🇸 (@DoryBeutel) January 18, 2026
Independent journalist Nick Sortor posted video of an ICE supporter being struck by rioters with a flag pole in a parking garage, “causing severe bleeding.” [I’m unable to embed the clip, but it can be viewed here. Fox News covered the story here.]
In the clip below, rioters refused to let an elderly woman with a walker cross the street. As she tried to advance, a group chanted, “Off our streets. Nazi scum.”
One X user offered a plausible explanation for this “fascist” behavior: “The psychology is simple: they’ve been told they’re fighting Nazis. Once you believe that, blocking an old lady from crossing the street isn’t cruelty. It’s righteous resistance. You’re not the bad guy. You’re stopping Hitler.”
Leftists REFUSE to allow an old lady to cross the street..
We don’t hate these people enough. pic.twitter.com/geJHw9kYpx
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) January 17, 2026
Although not a sympathetic figure, Jake Lang, the alt-right, antisemitic, anti-Islam activist and J-6er (jailed for allegedly beating a police officer), visited the Twin Cities for a protest on Saturday. The clip below shows anti-ICE protesters pulling him into a counter-protest crowd. He was beaten and bloodied by the group even as he tried to get away in a red sedan.
Anti Islam protest organizer Jake Lang was pulled into a counter protest crowd during a demonstration in Minneapolis.
Pretty crazy footage. pic.twitter.com/PbNMwIW7DO
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 17, 2026
On Sunday morning, Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported that “multiple ICE agents with rooms booked at the St. Paul Downtown Doubletree by Hilton received [a] notice today that their rooms are being cancelled & the hotel will temporarily close ‘due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul.'”
NEW: I’m told multiple ICE agents with rooms booked at the St. Paul Downtown Doubletree by Hilton received this notice today that their rooms are being cancelled & the hotel will temporarily close “due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul.”
I called the hotel &… pic.twitter.com/wNGsLq0vDt
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 18, 2026
Right Angle News Network reported Sunday that “Anti ICE agitators, led by failed CNN host Don Lemon, stormed a Minneapolis church this morning, halting services and holding members hostage because they believed the pastor was ICE affiliated.”
Lemon narrates the video below. He explains that this is what happens “when you violate people’s due process, when you pull people off the street,” and “when you violate the Constitution.”
He compared today’s unrest to the protests of the Civil Rights Movement.
Finally, he explains that the “whole point of protest is to disrupt” and “to make people uncomfortable.”
I wonder what would happen if protesters burst into a mosque during prayers.
Somehow, I don’t think the protesters will win many hearts and minds by bursting into a church service.
BREAKING – Anti ICE agitators, led by failed CNN host Don Lemon, stormed a Minneapolis church this morning, halting services and holding members hostage because they believed the pastor was ICE affiliated.
“The whole point of it is to disrupt and make people uncomfortable.” pic.twitter.com/ddwPwpwV5E
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 18, 2026
Does any of this look like peaceful protest? Citizens gathering to exercise their First Amendment rights? To me, it feels like anarchy. The anti-ICE demonstrators, who are operating on the streets of Minneapolis with complete impunity, have crossed the line into riot territory.
Where were MPD officers on Saturday? Why did they yield to the agitators? Did Mayor Jacob Frey issue a stand-down order? We don’t know.
What unfolded in Minneapolis on Saturday was not the exercise of free speech, but the breakdown of civic order. When citizens are harassed for their clothing, mistaken for enemies based on rumor, blocked from crossing streets, or beaten in public while authorities remain conspicuously absent, something fundamental has failed.
Whether by directive or dereliction, the apparent retreat of law enforcement created a vacuum — one quickly filled by intimidation and mob justice. City leaders may dress this chaos up as “resistance,” but the scenes on the ground tell a far different story.
And we need to ask: Who is calling the shots in Minneapolis?
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Paging Kyle Rittenhouse…
Paging DJT. It’s time to use the Insurrection Act. Don’t let this become the summer of love part deux.
So what does a person do about this situation in Minnesota? Leave!
https://allaboutlawyer.com/minnesota-law-609-06-when-you-can-legally-use-force-in-self-defense-and-the-duty-to-retreat/#the-duty-to-retreat-requirement-in-minnesota
I can legally carry concealed under LEOSA. I will never visit that state, regardless of my wife wanting to visit relatives.
Assuming Trump and ICE are bad as his enemies say, they are far worse.
They could care less about the oppressed, democracy, America, the list goes on. Totalitarians in the true sense of the word.
Democrats are now the Party of violent repeat criminals and illegal aliens rapists and murderers. Their Antifa shock troops will harass anyone they want now. Any law abiding American citizen and even an elderly couple. If I had been on this street corner I would’ve helped that couple across the street anyway possible.
They’ve always been the party of violence. Their reaction to the first Republican presidential win was the Civil War. Their reaction to slaves being freed was the Klan. Their reaction to blacks being elected to government was Jim Crow.
The vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats have been the party of violence and terrorism, ever since they founded the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction.
Brownshirts gonna Brownshirt
I guess I should be happy the left moved on from harassing Jews.
Ha ! My thoughts exactly. They got bored with attacking Jewish delicatessen’s and synagogues ; not surprising since they never cared about Palestinians anyway. Poor Iran if only some Jews would attack them then maybe someone would care about the actual genocide unfolding.
Now they are invading churches. I guess the days of illegal aliens claiming sanctuary in a Church are over.
Insurrection Act. Now.
Political Intimidation by street mob thuggery is about as fascist as it gets. These high-tech brownshirts don’t need a Hitler; they are *all* Little Hitlers.
Crazy women and their pet cucks.
TBH I’m kinda hoping DJT doesn’t use the insurrection act and instead just keep sending another 1,000 Federal LEO each week. Let these protesters wear themselves out. Then there’s the wear and tear on the locals. Not just local LEO getting burned out and PO enough to quit or take advantage of leave programs but local population of business owners and ordinary Citizens.
Just keep going out and about in Minneapolis with interior immigration enforcement mission. Allow the leftists to get sloppy and reveal their internal communications, expose their organization or as today go way too far by entering a house of worship and disrupt services which is a federal legal problem for the idiots who did so.
Don Lemon, the moldy fruit.
The other thing about mobs is they make everyone stupid. A rolling amalgamation of mindless passion and fury. The collective IQ is reduced to zero. Look how wrong and inhumane they become in just these few incidents. Combined with the false self-appointed religious righteousness, it’s really dangerous. Incited by Democrats and the Fake News. We have a problem.
Because mobs are all about emotion. And that turns off the higher faculties.
Time to start rethinking doing business with individuals and companies in Minnesota…
Massive hypocrisy is the feathered nest for leftist idiots.
It may be quite entertaining to find cars driven by the rioters and place Trump stickers on them, then sit back and watch them destroy each other’s cars.
That’s actually a fantastic idea. Get a bunch of “I support ICE” bumper stickers and put them on the back of every leftist vehicle you can find. Let them run each other off the road and beat their fellow travelers. Get yard signs as well. Let them have a taste of their own medicine.
Genius! I love it!
I have done that with Glock stickers. I wonder how many got broken into to find nothing.
Congrats democrats on your second civil war, This time you’ll succeed.
“moments before being beaten for simply wearing camo.”
#resist itscamophobia!
“plainclothes ICE agents” were dining at the Clancy Deli and that it had been “confirmed by the owner” of the restaurant.”
I’m thinking Clancy better get himself a good lawyer.
They can all follow the garbage they elected out the door.
They are working on being Brown Shirts in 1930s Germany
Go out in the crowd in a CNN costume. Put a projector in the “Camera”.
Use it to display ICE on the back of one of the riot whisperers. Watch the fun.
well when you have the government and to a degree the pd backing your radical leftists asses..it makes your agenda go smoother
Lynch mobs. With the local police doing nothing to stop them, higher government has to step in and restore law and order.
In MN all “higher govt. officials” are democrats (except speaker of the MN House). Gov, Lt gov, SOS, AG, State Auditor, 2 US Senators, 4/8 US House reps. Then add the teachers’ unions. And Mpls Mayor Frey ……
Many of believe ALL of them were in on the Somali frauds.
Last R statewide elected official left the governorship in 2010.
Mpls apparently has only 600 active policemen (down from the 900+ needed); 100 are on paid leave; another 100 planning to retire this year. Not heard a word about recruiting.
Getting rid of them via elections is close to a joke. I worked “ballot protection” for over a decade. Though we stopped some cheating, my conclusion, cheating is this:
WIth mail in voting and illegals getting registered to vote, the “Range” waiting to see how many votes are needed to win a statewide or go to a recount (which Rs
lose at the hight levels) winning will be extremely difficult.
Mpls apparently has only 600 active policemen
That includes the Somali one who shot an innocent woman who had called them for help?
In that last clip, Don Lemon comes across like an insouciant, ignorant ass.
In that last clip,Don Lemon always comes across like an insouciant, ignorant ass.FIFY
The Ma’alot massacre[1] was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred on 14–15 May 1974 and involved the hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, chiefly school children, which ended in the murder of 25 hostages and six other civilians. It began when three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)[2] infiltrated Israel from Lebanon
^^^ lefty doing the same thing here and now in america^^^
The jackbooted, Dhimmi-crat brownshirts/terrorists/jihadists/Maoists are out in Minnesota imposing their will and their terrorism upon the masses in Minnesota.
I suspect we’ll see Minnesota looking more like Cambodia, under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Fat thumb—sorry.
No worries, Jake.
Don Lemon seems to think the constitution allows people to invade private property. “There’s nothing in the constitution that tells you what time you can protest.”
If it’s true that he was leading this invasion rather than merely tagging along and reporting on it, then he should be arrested. As should everyone who can be identified from his or any other available footage.
Reminder: The third amendment does not apply in times of war. The USA is currently at war, as it has been since at least 1991. The AUMFs of 1991 and of 2002 have been repealed, but the 2001 AUMF is still in effect, so the USA is not only at war but in a declared war, so all the boxes have been checked. Therefore the third amendment is not currently in effect.
Therefore if the hotel has truly closed down and is not accepting any reservations, and thus will be lying empty for the duration of the unrest, then it would not unduly inconvenience the owners and managers if the government were to commandeer it for housing ICE agents.
ICE can hire those of the staff who are willing to come in and work rather than sit at home not earning any money (and who are here legally), and either do without the others or hire replacements for them.
Diabolical! I love it!
Why stop there? Comandeer the governor’s mansion and turn it into a ICE hotel.
It’s state property, so it would be protected by the tenth amendment.
This appears to fulfill all the criteria for insurrection. The city and state are within their constitutional rights in refusing to do anything about it, but that means it becomes the president’s job.
The next time they invade a closed space like a church, they need to have one of those “Now youse guys can’t leave” moments.
If the feds stepped out of that van, hosed the street and turned every one of those scumbags to gazpacho, I wouldn’t be bothered a bit
Looks like the create chaos phase is really off to a splendid start, and once people get fed up and scared enough it will be more possible for a dedicated progressive minority to win some symbolic elections and then once installed, seize power over government institutions, really exert control over the agenda and eliminate opposition. Worked well for Hitler and the Nazis, but they also benefited from the Weimar Republic incompetence in managing concurrent economic collapse. This enabling condition is pretty essential, so it looks like the Democrats are counting on increasing the mayhem via street riots coupled with legislative and Court antics to abort the recovery now underway. However, they probably are striking too soon, thank God for TDS!
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