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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuffPost: Inside The Invasion Of Minneapolis
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TWIN CITIES, Minn. Four days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, federal agents in St. Paul constrained the airflow to a mans neck until he became unconscious.
Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, a Honduran national, was at a Speedway on Sunday afternoon when a dozen masked Border Patrol officers suddenly swarmed his vehicle. They demanded he roll down his window and show his papers. When he didnt comply, they shattered the window and dragged him out, pressing him against the ground until his body went limp. They carried him into a dark, unmarked van and drove away.
Watching the video of his arrest on Monday, his sister Consuelo was sure he was dead. It wasnt until a day later that she could confirm he had survived and that hed been sent to an infamous detention tent camp in Texas. She told HuffPost she was able to speak to him for a few seconds over the phone.
He only managed to tell me that he is very injured, she said. A friend who helped set up a GoFundMe page for the family shared photos with HuffPost showing the aftermath of the incident ― Serranos car, windows busted out, sitting in a suburban driveway. ............(more)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minneapolis-trump-ice-local-resistance_n_6966ad39e4b0dd199b1aa10d
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HuffPost: Inside The Invasion Of Minneapolis (Original Post)
marmar
4 hrs ago
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justaprogressive
(6,343 posts)1. K'n'R
oi.
leftstreet
(38,979 posts)2. "To us, these are red coats"
These are imperial agents that are here to hurt us.
What a great article, describing the citizen PUSH BACK that's missing from the mainstream media. People need to see the power in organizing and coming together.
DURec
What a great article, describing the citizen PUSH BACK that's missing from the mainstream media. People need to see the power in organizing and coming together.
DURec
gab13by13
(31,351 posts)3. Schumer and Jeffries
need to be in the streets confronting the Gestapo.
Join or donate to Indivisible.
leftstreet
(38,979 posts)4. They're busy asking to speak to a manager n/t
MustLoveBeagles
(14,898 posts)5. Kicking for visibility
Girard442
(6,826 posts)6. Every member of Congress should spend some time on the streets.
If nothing else, to experience the terror firsthand.