DOJ Charging Minneapolis Antifa Members for Conspiracy to Disrupt ICE

DOJ Charging Minneapolis Antifa Members for Conspiracy to Disrupt ICE

The Department of Justice unsealed a 94-page indictment against 15 members of the Minneapolis group “Direct Action Minnesota” (DAMN), alleging they conspired to disrupt any DHS or ICE employees from doing their jobs.

The members face eight charges, including “conspiracy to impede a federal officer, multiple counts of interstate stalking, interstate threats, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, multiple counts of assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property.”

Four face additional charges:

• William Morgan: assault on a federal officer, interstate stalking, and destruction of government property
• Kyle Wagner: solicitation to commit a crime of violence and interstate threats
• Natasha Rakotz: assault on a federal officer
• Isaac Auman Sant: interstate stalking

Authorities arrested 12 DAMN members, with two members at large.

One of those members “was previously in federal custody on separate charges.”

“As alleged, these defendants, which included members of Antifa groups, engaged in an unrelenting campaign of harassment and violence targeting federal and local law enforcement,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Their actions created a dangerous environment that threatened not only their intended targets, but the community as a whole. These arrests demonstrate the Department’s commitment to law and order and stopping organized political violence in Minneapolis and beyond.”

The indictment details the well-coordinated plans between DAMN and other so-called antifascist groups to organize violent protests at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on January 14, 23, and March 1, 2026.

DAMN members worked with rapid response networks (RRN), which describe themselves as “inherently militant” and aim to combat and stop “a federal agent with a gun.”

These people held regular meetings to organize a protest at the federal building.

The indictment accused DAMN members of using the Whipple Watch Signal chat to identify immigration and law enforcement vehicles and documents, including license plate numbers. The database tells the people if a vehicle belongs to law enforcement, where it was last seen, the activity it has been involved in, etc.

These “commuters” would follow immigration officers to every location. Their “dispatchers” would tell them where to go:

For example, on May 4, a federal immigration officer left the Whipple Building in his government-issued vehicle. DAMN member Isaac Sant drove a Hyundai Sonata and followed the federal immigration officer from the Whipple Building to Hudson, Wisconsin. St. Croix County deputies stopped the Hyundai Sonata in Hudson, Wisconsin, and identified Sant as the driver.

On May 18, a federal immigration officer left the Whipple Building in his government-issued vehicle. DAMN member Natasha Rakotz drove a Honda Civic and followed the federal immigration officer from the Whipple Building to the area of Minnesota State Highway 55 and Minnesota State Highway 5. Rakotz “brake checked” the officer and “side swiped” the officer’s vehicle, causing a collision.

Then we have the blockades:

DAMN members deployed “hard” and “soft” blockades against federal law and immigration enforcement as well as against Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies during both of the direct actions. DAMN successfully shut down operations at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building (Whipple Building), during both direct actions.

Members of DAMN’s “hard blockade” team used vehicles, trailers, Czech hedgehogs (a static obstacle made of metal angle beams), and other items to obstruct the roads used by law enforcement near the Whipple Building to impede the movement of federal law enforcement and immigration officers.

The “soft blockade” team used homemade shields to resist law enforcement agents and “break through teams of officers on foot.”

The DOJ then described how these DAMN members participated in an “Anarchist Speaking Tour” where they bragged about how they obstructed immigration and law enforcement officers.

They spoke in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Seattle in April 2026:

On April 18, DAMN members Isaac Sant, Cameron Kennedy, and William Morgan took part in the “Anarchist Speaking Tour” in Seattle, Washington. Kennedy described the history of violent resistance in Minneapolis. He described the looting and burning of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct as “the happiest moment of my life.” Kennedy explained, “A lot of mutual aid networks that were later characterized…this resistance to ICE came from the George Floyd uprising.” Kennedy described himself as a “revolutionary anarchist.”

Kennedy discussed the Jan. 23 direct action at the Whipple Building, stating that DAMN utilized a “soft blockade with shields at one entrance. He continued that there were “two other deployment teams…those deployment teams had trailers that they had bought off of Facebook Marketplace for really cheap and they essentially tried to blockade the other entrances simultaneously with this blockade (pointed to soft blockade on the projector). One of those trailers was deployed and flipped and successfully shut access. The other was about 30 seconds away from successful deployment before the team was actually pepper sprayed. They managed to avoid arrest…and they managed to drive away, albeit losing the trailer in the process.”

Kennedy also spoke about the direct action at the Whipple Building on March 1. Kennedy pointed to a projector screen and said, “the one you see over here is another shield wall on March 1st.” He continued, “this demonstration had four components to it. There was a above ground march that was led by indigenous sundancers that would take up gate one of the Whipple Building and the others were designed to essentially shut down the other two points of egress…there was 3 deployment teams. The first deployment team brought in shields.” The second deployment team “was sent in and they had something to be like tank busters…” Kennedy described these items as similar to “images of like D-Day, they’re like the metal X structures that you see and actually when the vehicles hit them, it digs back into the road and will stop the vehicle.” Kennedy explained, “I was on deploy 2 or deploy 3 and I had a 10-foot U-Haul box truck and a 30-foot trailer that I was going to use to block one of the entrances.”

Isaac Sant said, “We’re here from Minneapolis. We’re on tour to talk about our experiences resisting the ICE occupation.” He stated, “I think the Twin Cities real contributions to the field of revolutionary organization, of insurrectionary organization is these rapid response networks.” Sant stated, “I am in an anarchist, revolutionary organization. It’s called Blackcat.”

These aren’t just a bunch of ragtag teenagers with nothing better to do with their time. This was a coordinated effort to use violence to disrupt lawful operations.

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