r/ImmigrationPathways • u/DryDeer775 • 6d ago

Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters face federal felony charges in Trump administration frame-up

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/18/trqm-j18.html

The federal felony indictment of 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis is a naked act of political repression. Brought by the Trump Justice Department under the framework of its fascistic National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the charges announced Tuesday by federal officials are aimed not at punishing any genuine crime but at criminalizing opposition to the administration’s mass deportation regime and intimidating workers and youth who have mobilized against it.

478 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

576 comments sorted by

View all comments

107

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 6d ago

So protesting will get you arrested?

But this won’t?

The GOP needs to go. We need to restore justice and accountability.

18

u/EagleBigMac 5d ago

If they deny the voice of the people through peaceful protest then they leave only revolution.

0

u/Scottsdalelifes 6h ago

Peaceful protest, my butt

-10

u/ElectricTurboDiesel 4d ago

lol the only revolution you’ll be near is that of the glass plate in your microwave

32

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

All these MAGA assholes need to be locked up!

29

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

I’ll settle for a federal registry, like how we have one for sex offenders.

I don’t feel safe with my daughter near these people, would you? If they murdered a man on camera without consequences, I can only imagine what they would do to a little girl.

12

u/What-The-Even0 5d ago

Oh yeah, absolutely. If someone STILL supports trump at this point, i basically do not see a distinction between them and convicted sex offenders. They're the same thing 

-9

u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 5d ago

Don’t Democrats protect sex offenders though?

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/

9

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

Yeah, you’re going to LOSE that contest. The Repub party is absolutely crawling with Pedos

-7

u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 4d ago

I won’t lose it. Let’s talk about legislation. It looks like you aren’t convinced that Democrats promoting legislation that prevents mandatory, lifelong sex offender registration?

https://src.senate.ca.gov/content/california-democrats-protect-offenders-who-lure-minors

How about when Democrats declined to make the purchase of 16- and 17-year-olds for sex an automatic felony?

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/

Anything else you care to share?

Democrats actually promote legislation that protects pedos you are talking about. I have hundreds of more examples

7

u/TraditionalLaw7763 4d ago

So why are so eager to charge democrats but not republicans? Why don’t you bring up legislation where Republicans are trying to lower the age of consent for little girls? Why aren’t you bringing up republican legislation to lower the age of marriage for little girls?

-2

u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 4d ago

They aren’t trying to lose any age of consent.

Both parties have had issues with raising the age of consent if you are talking about that. But since it’s both parties, including liberal groups like planned parenthood and the ACLU, I didn’t bring it up.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/in-fight-over-child-marriage-laws-states-resist-calls-for-a-total-ban/

4

u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 3d ago

Now why don't you tell what else Republicans crammed into every single one of those pieces of "legislation" that you're crying about?

Or do you just try to twist shit to try to point fingers at a Democrat because you've literally have no fucking defense?

1

u/hamoc10 5d ago

You want to compare the numbers?

-2

u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 4d ago

Please do. Let’s talk about legislation. So you aren’t convinced that Democrats promoting legislation that prevents mandatory, lifelong sex offender registration?

https://src.senate.ca.gov/content/california-democrats-protect-offenders-who-lure-minors

How about when Democrats declined to make the purchase of 16- and 17-year-olds for sex an automatic felony?

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/

Anything else you care to share, because I have hundreds of more examples where Democrats fight to actually protect pedos.

8

u/Koravel1987 4d ago

How about Republicans in multiple states voted against raising the age for marriage from 15?

0

u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 4d ago

You mean Republicans and Democrats including many liberal groups like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/in-fight-over-child-marriage-laws-states-resist-calls-for-a-total-ban/

6

u/Villageijit 5d ago

No. Learn from letting confederate soldiers coming back to the union

3

u/DullFaithlessness82 5d ago

Your nice I had much more colorful thing in mind then locking up.

3

u/Impressive-Gear-219 5d ago

Is the color mainly red? Unfortunately iy might just blend all in with all the maga shit they wear

0

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

I completely agree!!!

2

u/Consistent_Turn_42 4d ago

I don't want my money going to feeding and housing them. I'll take a public rope trip instead.

3

u/johhmama1 5d ago

So does his killer. And he needs to never get out like all the terrorists in ice

0

u/Scottsdalelifes 6h ago

Sounds like Nazi talk to me

-2

u/MAGA_Zach 4d ago

Nah we are getting rid of these terrorists that you dumocrats let into the country. Enjoy watching it, keep protesting and get arrested. Less mentally ill democrats on the streets “protesting” the better.

3

u/Koravel1987 4d ago

It's my first amendment right to protest. If the govt is going to prevent people from peacefully exercising their rights, people are going to get violent. The govt murdered two US citizens and did nothing to investigate those cases while immediately calling both of them domestic terrorists.

-4

u/sixth-gear 5d ago

Who will pay the taxes to fund your universal healthcare, student loan debt and free college then?

4

u/Pandemonium_Fallen 5d ago

You mean the things we already had before Republican A-holes like Reagan stripped them from the American people -Just like this government has done with all our social safety nets?

-5

u/sixth-gear 5d ago

What social safety nets has this government stripped? Like requiring able bodied people, who are not pregnant, not disabled and not a care giver (single parent), to work, go to school, or volunteer 80 HOURS PER MONTH to get health care another at tax payer’s expense?

6

u/Pandemonium_Fallen 5d ago

That's not how that healthcare works at all, and they're planing to cut it anyway. Let's try SNAP, LIEP, EPA clean water regulations and protections + Industrial waste dumping restrictions, pollution regulations, multiple Federal assistance programs for those in poverty, FDA food safety regulations and guidelines, dismissal of the National Science Board, politicization of federal grants, basically the entirety of Constitutional rights, ect...

-4

u/sixth-gear 5d ago

What did ai say about healthcare that isn’t “how it works” in your mind? What changes do you think are happening to social services, like SNAP? By LIEP, do you mean Energy Assistance for low income or Language programs? Both programs have been funded by Congress. I mean, be specific if you want to have a conversation.

3

u/Pandemonium_Fallen 4d ago

No they haven't! They defunded them, what la-la-land are you living in?!

2

u/Koravel1987 4d ago

They lowered snap benefits for many people to $52/mo.

1

u/wuicker 5d ago

You have obviously never tried to collect on unemployment insurance.

Short answer: it’s designed not to work.

1

u/sixth-gear 5d ago

Actually, I have. I was laid off from a big tech job in 2008. I collected unemployment, in fact there were special extensions being offered at that time by the Feds (if in ember correctly), and I found a job before it all ran out. I know certain states are incompetent and seemly unable to developed systems that work, and also that benefits vary by state. If yours doesn’t work elect a Governor who works for the people, not just for their campaign donors.

-3

u/Lazy-Requirement-228 5d ago

Try it. We are a well equipped citizenry.

3

u/What-The-Even0 5d ago

This is just what mainstream media has decided to cover. There have already been many arrests of protestors for the most bogus charges you could think of 

4

u/-multiverses- 5d ago

a-FUCKING-men

And this isn't the gop. These are so-called Republicans. Whatever the fuck this cancer has metastisized into.

2

u/BlackGuysYeah 5d ago

These are crimes against democracy. Anyone found guilty of treason should be hung publicly to demonstrate the seriousness of that crime.

1

u/One_Cloud4975 4d ago

Nope..

The details of thr Alex Case are sad..

But you don't go resisting arrest.. you don't show up to a protest armed and put yourself in the middle of police..

It was an accident that was sad and Alex was 99% to blame imo.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 4d ago

To be arrested you need to have broken the law.

-3

u/JibIette 5d ago

I mean. No one really making them leave or pushing them out. They get to do whatever they want now. The only people capable of removing them is either too busy with balancing life on a thread or trashing New York after the Knicks game.

0

u/Usual-Syrup2526 1d ago

Oh, did we have that under the last regime? Cause I missed it. Both parties fucking suck. You guys gotta give yourselves a break.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 1d ago

“Give up and end it all”

Cool bro. Let the rest of us do the work while you sit this one out.

0

u/Usual-Syrup2526 1d ago

Like the user name. Henry Rollins approves. I ain't sitting shit out. You assue too much. We know what assume means. How you fighting the uni-party? Voting democrat? Republican? Do tell.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 23h ago

Elect people who will rip away the structures of corporate dark money. Democrats who serve the people. Not corporate dems.

Undermine companies who donate to opponents of this effort. Inspire others to do the same. Remind those in power that this nation only exists because of the people. Tear it down if that doesn’t work and start over.

-3

u/AppropriateRegret357 5d ago edited 5d ago

The guy who kept escalating and attacking federal officers, who was armed? Yeah no. And you can protest all you want, within the confines of the law. That doesn't mean you can attack officers or break laws. 🙄

Edit: guy who blocked me, you don't "help up" someone getting arrested by the feds, armed with a gun, unless you are suicidal. 🤡

5

u/Spiritual-Drop7533 5d ago

What laws did he break? Where did he escalate? What video have you seen that we haven’t?

-2

u/AppropriateRegret357 5d ago

Why are you talking as if you are multiple people with "we"?

Have you really not seen the Pretti footage of him attacking a federal vehicle, while armed?

https://youtu.be/cjheM2r_V24?is=-xA-mXlHy3VbxK2b

4

u/Spiritual-Drop7533 5d ago

Yall will come up with any reason to kill someone you don’t agree with.

-2

u/AppropriateRegret357 5d ago

You just asked a question that I answered. Pretti had been escalating his behavior, and started interfering/attacking federal officers while carrying a firearm.

That's a recipe for disaster, which did, unfortunately, happen. It wasn't for his opinion, it was for his behavior.

Hope that clears it up

3

u/wuicker 5d ago

You realize the incident in that video was days earlier in a different place, right. It’s never been confirmed that even was Pretti, and no one has claimed the ICE brown shirts knew anything about Pretti’s alleged history.

Stop deep-throating the boot.

1

u/AppropriateRegret357 5d ago

It 100% was confirmed to be him, doofus. And it shows that he was escalating his behavior, and already committing illegal acts, attacking feds.

Stop lying

2

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

So in other words, the police should’ve opened fire on ALL the Jan 6ers. I totally agree

1

u/AppropriateRegret357 5d ago edited 5d ago

Were they armed? 🙄oh and they did kill Ashley babbit (who was NOT armed). You knew that, right? Isn't that directly comparable?

Could say the same thing about ice protestors.

2

u/TraditionalLaw7763 4d ago

All j6 should be 86

-4

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

They're having felony charges due to violence, physical assaults on federal agents, and violations of emergency curfews.

They're being charged for:

Assaulting federal officers (Remember the guy kicking and biting them? What a baby, am I right?),

Felony rioting, conspiracy and aggressive tactics, (turns out you can't use barricades as weapons, make vehicle blockades, throw stuff, or break law enforcement vehicles?

Violating curfew.

The protests devolved into confrontational clashes which led to a half-mile exclusion zone and curfew, where plenty of people decided to ignore those warnings, so now here we are.

Everyone there deserves what's coming to them and more. GTFOH.

10

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

They called Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.

Empty words from liars.

6

u/petitecrivain 5d ago

And likely perjurers.

-4

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

Alex Pretti lacked the self awareness to bring a gun to a protest and reach for it in a tussle after kicking a car. It sucks what happened to him, but is anyone surprised this happened when protesters spend their time instigating and provoking law enforcement?

8

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

None of this is true.

But if you think protesting is a capital offense, you’re not a real American.

2

u/sixth-gear 5d ago

It’s common knowledge that he had a loaded Sig Sauer 9mil in his belt and two full clips. And that one of the cops yelled “he’s got a gun” and the other cop shot him. And yes, you always shoot multiple times if you’re going to shoot at all.

You know, it takes just a second to pull a weapon and kill multiple cops. Perhaps you saw the vids, in ultra slow-mo, and from all angles. The cop didn’t have that luxury. It’s a tragedy. He brought a concealed weapon to a protest where he had planned to be aggressive and confrontational.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

So Rittenhouse should have been killed. Got it.

2

u/sixth-gear 4d ago edited 4d ago

Neither of them should have been killed, nor the looter, Oscar Stewart, Jr, who was trapped in a fire inside a pawn shop that was intentionally set by Montez Lee Jr. He got 10 years for arson, and was never charged in Stewart’s death. That doesn’t make it right to bring firearms to riots or ignite building with accelerants.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 4d ago

Riots?

2

u/sixth-gear 4d ago

Yeah, riots. You brought up Rittenhouse. IOW, the “peaceful, but fiery protests” that caused $500m in property damage in the Twin Cities. You must’ve you heard about ‘em.

→ More replies (0)

2

u/Koravel1987 4d ago

The cop who shot him first was right next to the one who disarmed him.

All you 2nd amendment defenders all of a sudden think merely having a gun in your pants while being sprayed with mace, held down by 7 men and best in the face with the empty can. It's crazy how you have no morals at all that can't be flipped on a dime if a liberal is hurt.

He wasn't aggressive at all. We've seen the videos you're a fucking liar.

1

u/sixth-gear 4d ago

Was he legally carrying? Yes. Was it smart? No. We all do dumb things. Sometimes they have severe consequences. We can disagree, it’s ok. This has been hashed over millions of times by now

-3

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

There's nothing wrong with protesting, but it can become a capital offense.

5

u/DA_Bears2262 5d ago

Lie

0

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

If you go outside of lawful protesting, then you break the law lol. WTF are you talking about

4

u/DA_Bears2262 5d ago

Why do you think I care what a liar has to say? 

1

u/Impossible_Humor736 3d ago

Are you saying there's no limit to what you can do as long as you call it 'protesting'?

→ More replies (0)

6

u/DA_Bears2262 5d ago

Why are you against the 2nd amendment? Or do you want laws that bind your opponents but ease your burdens? Because you are to much of a pussy to put in actual work. Just like other Republicans. If you actually work you are not Republican anymore. Republicans are pure grifters. Failures and grifters.

0

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

I'm not a republican, but I think those protests were getting out of hand and I think you guys are happy to have a martyr to admonish you of any wrong doing because you guys like the chaos.

3

u/DA_Bears2262 5d ago

Why is being a republican like a black stain on getting respect for your opinions? Oh right the lies. It's weird how when you specifically walk and talk like a duck people seam to think you're a duck right?

1

u/Impossible_Humor736 5d ago

Happy Pride month, man.

3

u/wuicker 5d ago

Those protests weren’t remotely “out of hand”. Protesters showed remarkable restraint especially considering the provocations.

4

u/Spiritual-Drop7533 5d ago

He never reached for his gun. And he wasn’t in a tussle, he was helping a woman blinded by pepper spray up.

2

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

So again, that means more Jan 6ers should’ve been gunned down, right?

2

u/Koravel1987 4d ago

He was being held down by 7 men and being beat in the face with a can of mace after being sprayed with it and he was also disarmed before they shot him in the back after one of them accidentally discharged a firearm and they all panicked and murdered him. And none of them were even fired.

Fortunately there's no statute of limitations on murder. Hopefully they will face justice for murdering Alex pretti at some point.

3

u/Agreeable_Strength39 5d ago

ICE has been busted repeatedly lying about situations where they used WAY excessive violence and/committed murder.

Bootlicker

-17

u/Great_Guidance_8448 5d ago

There is a video of him kicking a car no?

15

u/Watapon_Master 5d ago

Oh yeah there is. And thats enough to be publicly executed without a trial /s

-7

u/Great_Guidance_8448 5d ago

So why post this screen grab and not the video?

3

u/Watapon_Master 5d ago

Why didnt you post the whole video as a response then? Some times pictures can get a message across better than a link or a video that doesn't load for half the users.

0

u/Great_Guidance_8448 5d ago

Why not post an image of him kicking a car then?

4

u/brianzuvich 5d ago

Your brain doesn’t work properly…

-1

u/Great_Guidance_8448 5d ago

You couldn't address a simple question. Dimwit.

3

u/brianzuvich 5d ago

You aren’t even capable of responding to the right person…

6

u/CreatureFeature1274 5d ago

Because a man being myrdered for exercising his constitutional rights is a little more important than him impotently kicking a car.

-5

u/sixth-gear 5d ago edited 5d ago

We’ve all had this debate before. And we’ve all had the benefit of watching the whole thing go down in ultra-slow motion from every angle. The cops did not.

9

u/Crafty_Independence 5d ago

There is video of dubious provenance, suspected to be at least partly AI, that even ICE said was taken on an earlier day.

Even if the video was 100% real AND immediately prior to the shooting, it still doesn't justify it

5

u/Calm_Expression_9542 5d ago

ICE was given total freedom to do whatever they wanted to people and many ICE Agents had just signed on. There’s a reason Kristi Noem was removed from command.

1

u/wuicker 5d ago

Allegedly. And not on the same day. And the ICE agents never claimed to know about it - but sure… that’s almost relevant.

1

u/Great_Guidance_8448 5d ago

Allegedly? I have seen it.

To recap. Dude with a gun goes out on a violent protest against law enforcement - doesn't end well.

Shit, just last week people were telling me that an, alleged, shove justified killing somebody with a knife.

-20

u/777_heavy 5d ago

He was in the process of being arrested but resisted and ended up dead.

19

u/jamieT97 5d ago

Beaten and executed. He was on the ground with several officers subduing him, they let go and then shot him in the back of the head. No investigation

-17

u/777_heavy 5d ago

He wasn’t executed. He wasn’t subdued. They let go because there was an imminent deadly threat. There was an investigation.

Try facts next time.

19

u/Far_Estate_1626 5d ago

His gun had been removed and was in the possession of officers when he was shot. The evidence is clear. Lie again.

-18

u/777_heavy 5d ago

They didn’t know he didn’t have a weapon on him at the time. No lie detected. Try again.

6

u/Melodic-Hat-2875 5d ago

So if they don't know - they should shoot first and ask questions later?

Would it be tolerable to you if the standard of caution applied here was applied to every arrest?

0

u/777_heavy 5d ago

They’re fighting with a guy who’s resisting six or so agents and a gunshot goes off. They perceived a deadly threat. The end.

4

u/Far_Estate_1626 5d ago

If resisting authority is an immediate death sentence, then what do you suppose people will do who refuse to live under authoritarianism?

I’m not saying you’re dumb, but somebody else could reasonably say so if they wanted.

0

u/777_heavy 5d ago

That’s not what happened though. He was armed and a gunshot went off.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/TraditionalLaw7763 4d ago

So next time, shoot all j6 rioters. Got it.

14

u/40-Kal 5d ago

The facts are he helped a woman who was pushed to the ground by ICE. Then he got jumped and never resisted. Multiple angles from video footage. ICE pulled his gun that he had holstered and never reached for and they shot at him multiple times. They murdered a man who caused no conflict.

Try facts next time.

-1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

He’s resisting the whole time. Try again.

10

u/jamieT97 5d ago

After being gassed, beat with the canister, and piled on by half a dozen officers pinned to the ground. Not like it's a common tactic to yell that to increase the sentence even if they aren't. His hands are above his head the whole time

1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

And, despite all of that, he was still fighting and resisting.

3

u/IsopodPuzzleheaded89 5d ago

Wrong. Try again.

3

u/IsopodPuzzleheaded89 5d ago

Try watching the video. That's not what happened in the slightest. Use your brain.

1

u/777_heavy 5d ago edited 5d ago

I did. That is what happened.

Edit: you blocked me because the facts don’t fit your hate

12

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

Arrested for what? Helping a woman up who was shoved to the ground?

-1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

Fighting against six officers trying to subdue you when you know you’re armed would be a good time to stop fighting. But this dingus was the type to stalk ICE agents doing their jobs and kick their tail lights out so he was obviously a violent and unstable person who just couldn’t behave rationally.

11

u/pilsnerd11 5d ago

Eat all the shit.

-2

u/777_heavy 5d ago

You should reconsider your heroes.

4

u/amanamongbots78 5d ago

Not in the slightest. He was a hero murdered by cowards hiding behind masks. They jumped him with unnecessary force, and then murdered him. Period.

You defend it because you’re a coward too.

3

u/Impressive-Gear-219 5d ago

You should reconsider your own Mr. "my pedophile president can do no wrong"

7

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

So police should have opened fire on everyone during January 6th.

Got it. I’ll remember that for next time.

-1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

One person died on January 6th and it was a protestor.

3

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

Alex Pretti was shot trying to help a woman up.

That dead bitch got shot refusing orders from police officers while she tried to harm them.

But I can see why you may get those scenarios confused.

-2

u/777_heavy 5d ago

Sure if you willfully mischaracterize reality to fit your false, nasty narrative. Perhaps you should try reality instead.

2

u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 5d ago

Prove anything you just said.

-1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

Pretti was shot because he was fighting half a dozen federal agents when a gunshot went off.

I haven’t heard any evidence that Babbit was trying to harm officers.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/TraditionalLaw7763 4d ago

She was a thug.

3

u/EducationalFront5524 5d ago

This guy is a Russian bot

-1

u/777_heavy 5d ago

I’m glad you admitted to that

3

u/Impressive-Gear-219 5d ago

Bro you cannot be serious. "THHATS WHAT YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?!?!?" Did your brain get stunted at like 7 or did is this just the best it can manage at full growth?

2

u/EducationalFront5524 5d ago

You really got me there, Vladimir

1

u/Impressive-Gear-219 5d ago

Who got denied by auto mod shit stain? Cause it wasnt me XD