“People are 3D-printing whistles in massive quantities”
“when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises. They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets. They make hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses. They make dinners for one another, they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks. They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road, an entire café full of people stood up as one, dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound. We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors. Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions”
“We expected to find a city experiencing an ICE surge like the ones that have taken place in Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, or New Orleans”
“But the situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before. It’s not just an uptick in raids. It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go”
“You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment: helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions. They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away. They don’t check papers”
“We are witnessing a racial pogrom”
“While the rapid response networks haven’t stemmed the flow of abductions, diverting dozens of agents who would otherwise be kidnapping people to engage in crowd control is slowing their operations and demoralizing agents”
“The “radical left” is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents—or anyone that they would like to murder. Whenever they say “radical left,” they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people the way that they murdered Renee Good, and they intend to do so with impunity”