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"ICE’s killings of Guerrero and Salgado Araujo also share the cruelty used in the fatal shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis. ICE officers also claimed that Good tried to “weaponize” her car against them, justifying their use of lethal force. “Weaponizing” one’s vehicle seems to be the government’s go-to excuse for lethal force. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reportedly used the same terminology to justify ICE fatally shooting Guerrero. Yet, it’s the ICE officers who are turning people’s vehicles into caskets."

https://truthout.org/articles/ice-keeps-killing-immigrants-in-cars-it-claims-were-weaponized-against-agents/
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"The Minneapolis–St. Paul area has become a focal point of resistance to federal immigration enforcement, with sustained demonstrations following intensified ICE operations across the region. In June 2026, federal authorities arrested 15 members and associates of Direct Action Minnesota, bringing national attention to the movement.

GrayStak contributor Andy Thayer sat down with two of the defendants, Callum “Cal” Robinette and Isaac Sant. Framed as an activist-to-activist conversation rather than a traditional news interview, the discussion explores the organizing, community response, and broader movement surrounding opposition to ICE enforcement in the Twin Cities."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPE6GYoPwg
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"An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a woman outside the facility Thursday night, Aurora police said.

Brandon Booth, 42, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony menacing, according to an Aurora Police Department release.

The shooting occurred just outside the facility on Nome Street, where the victim had been among a group of demonstrators participating in a protest against ICE detention. She was transported to the hospital and her injuries “are believed to be non-life threatening,” police officials said."

https://truthout.org/articles/colorado-ice-jail-employee-accused-of-shooting-a-protester-is-arrested/
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"Defeated on the streets by enraged demonstrators who have successfully resisted Trump’s storm troopers everywhere that they have invaded, and stymied when they have brought individual cases against the protesters, the government has now resorted, with mixed success, to broad disruptive conspiracy prosecutions that harken back to the Smith Act prosecutions of alleged Communists in the 1950s and the prosecutions of the New Left and the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This escalating attack against the left and the First Amendment, criminalizing free speech and militant protests, must continue to be resisted both in the courts and on the streets. As the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit has so aptly stated: “All of us need to resist this latest effort to not only disrupt and destroy the lives of young people of conscience but also to intimidate a generation whose imaginations and moral sensibilities are precious to all of us.”"

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-federal-lawyers-ramp-up-their-attacks-on-demonstrators-and-the-left/
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As the Trump government attacks people bravely standing up for their neighbors:

"The student told the FBI that she declined the invitations, both to meet Trump and to go to the party. After that, she started to get threats, she said.

“[She] said that she received death threats when she did not want to go meet Trump. The threats consisted of the men saying that they knew where she worked and could find her. [She] never told the police because she did not think they would believe her.”

She also described watching the same men approach other women in the following six months. “[She] saw girls, usually blondes, approximately 15/16 years old with one of the two men and them get on an escalator."

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-epstein-files-2677046799/
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"Three Stop Cop City activists had their felony charges dismissed today, just two months after Attorney General Chris Carr filed new charges against them, four years after their arrest, in what supporters called a politically motivated indictment. Cobb County District Court Judge Robert E. Flournoy III dismissed the charges today in a pretrial motions hearing, based on due process violations by Carr’s office. Hannah Kass, Katie Kloth, and Tyler Norman, called the “Cobb County 3” by supporters, were indicted on April 24 on State charges of felony property damage and arson of lands, stemming from arrests that occurred in May 2022.

Today’s dismissal comes a week after the US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia filed a federal indictment against Kloth and Norman. Federal charges of arson and intimidation were levied by the US Attorney’s Office last Tuesday, related to the same May 2022 demonstration at the headquarters of Brasfield and Gorrie, general contractor for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, widely known as “Cop City.” The Department of Justice has tied the federal indictment to the National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, a controversial law enforcement directive introduced by the Trump Administration that has been described by critics as a “declaration of war on anybody who does not support the Trump Administration or its agenda.”

https://weelauneethefree.org/state-felony-charges-dismissed-today-against-stop-cop-city-activists-known-as-cobb-county-3/
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"Protests broke out across the city of Senatobia in response to the death of a 1-year-old Kohen Wiley following an encounter with police.

Crowds gathered at the Senatobia City Hall Tuesday evening while city leaders met inside.

People later protested outside the city's Walmart, where law enforcement deployed tear gas to deter the crowds."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/live-updates-protests-break-out-in-senatobia-following-death-of-1-year-old-kohen-wiley-after-police-shooting/ar-AA25PfmC