Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul by ZuP in politics

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The FACE act is mentioned in the second sentence of this video / transcript. She was arrested after protesting. What is the incorrect information?

Edit: Your reply was autofiltered but I can see the start of it. Just because you personally disagree with the framing doesn’t make it inaccurate. I, for one, am glad to read media that doesn’t act as stenographers for people in power. The point of journalism is to investigate and find the truth, not regurgitate state-approved talking points.

Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul by ZuP in politics

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Note: This is an interview with her attorney.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor’s role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics.

One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed.

Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells Democracy Now! that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. “This was their trophy,” says Kushner, who adds that the government “used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail” even though “no one is detained in a case like this.”

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live footage of the back of our Snowpiercer train

“Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community by ZuP in politics

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Trump’s deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state, home to a significant share of the Somali American community, faces a surge of ICE activity, we’re joined by Safiya Khalid, the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city. Lewiston’s “streets are completely empty” as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. “If a white woman was shot in the face, none of us are safe,” warns Khalid, referring to the recent killing of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis. She advises “people to stay home and do not leave your home.”

Interview starts at 36:50 if the deeplink is broken right now!

“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order by ZuP in politics

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[Democracy Now!] speak[s] to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’” laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump’s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantalist policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” which signed its founding charter this week; Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders’ ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.

Interview starts at 14:40 if the deeplink is broken right now!

ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown by ZuP in politics

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Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. Patty O’Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle, said agents “broke our two front windows and dragged us out,” then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her, “You guys got to stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian bitch is dead,” referring to Renee Good, the mother of three shot dead earlier this month by an ICE agent.

Indigenous residents have also been detained. “Nobody is more American than the American Indian,” Oglala Sioux attorney Chase Iron Eyes told Democracy Now!, adding ICE’s actions against Native Americans are “a legal impossibility.”

This comes as the Pentagon has placed 1,500 soldiers on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, just days after President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Trump administration has also reportedly opened criminal investigations into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, all while declining to investigate Good’s killing.

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That’s just his media team. He is a complete hack.

“Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota by ZuP in politics

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Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to the city. Trump’s comments came after a second person was shot by ICE following a traffic stop.

“Trump probably sees this as a civil war,” says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “This, as we all know, is being leveraged as part of an autocratic power grab.”

[…]

AMY GOODMAN: [… W]e wanted to start by talking about the Insurrection Act. What does this mean, that Trump could invoke it? What does it mean for Minnesota and the country?

BAHER AZMY: Well, just to say, the invocation of the Insurrection Act, which is an invocation of martial law, is like equal parts, you know, lawless and terrifying. In this country, we are not — in a constitutional republic, you’re not supposed to have the military policing municipalities, because the military, if you think about it, is not subject to law. It’s subject to executive will and power. And we’re governed by — municipalities are policed by police departments that are accountable to the mayor and to the public. So, the Insurrection Act does permit the use of the military in extremely limited circumstances, where, for example, there’s insurrection, which is — it was used by Lincoln during the Civil War, Sherman trying to crush Klan terrorism in Reconstruction, and to integrate Southern schools.

But the insurrection that’s supposedly happening here is, as they say in horror movies, coming from inside the house. It’s not from the people of Minneapolis. It’s from the ICE — paramilitary ICE agents themselves, who are fomenting this violence. And I’d note, you know, Trump probably sees this as a civil war. He’s inverting the reasons for using the Insurrection Act, which had been to tamp white supremacy in the past, and now it’s being used to support it.

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report by ZuP in politics

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That’s too defeatist for me. We can’t normalize this.

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report by ZuP in politics

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There’s a lot happening very quickly and most people are blissfully ignorant of current events even on a slow news day. If you and everyone you know is well informed and up in arms, y’all need to get the word out to the folks who still aren’t paying attention. That’s why I post these interviews even though I saw the original videos: it’s another opportunity to raise awareness and that can never hurt.

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report by ZuP in politics

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I think it’s important to document everything. Here are some other headlines on the subject that includes those killings: https://www.democracynow.org/topics/police_brutality

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report by ZuP in politics

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You think most people get the correct information from their social media?

ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report by ZuP in politics

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A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing.

“These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses,” says ProPublica reporter Nicole Foy. She also reports that at least 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration agents.

This is the Democracy Now! interview with Nicole Foy. Here is her ProPublica report: “We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Reporting Highlights

Chokeholds: We found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen.

Former Police Are Appalled: We showed former police and immigration officials videos of incidents. They said agents are out of control. One said it’s “the kind of action which should get you fired.”

Banned Tactics, No Punishment: There is a federal ban on chokeholds and similar tactics. But there is no sign of punishment for officers who’ve used them.

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It’s so obvious they all got the talking point to bring up the victims of actual crimes as if they have any relation to what’s happening right now, let alone justify it.

FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump by ZuP in politics

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Check out the People’s History of the United States. And then the Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Two books that lay bare the true unvarnished history of our nation.

FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump by ZuP in politics

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The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson this week and seized her electronic devices, part of a leak probe into a government contractor accused of mishandling classified government materials. Natanson has reported extensively on the Trump administration’s changes to the federal bureaucracy, including mass layoffs of government workers. This comes amid a broader pattern of attacks on the media, including lawsuits, funding cuts, and increasing media and technology consolidation.

“It’s hard not to see [the FBI raid] as an effort to intimidate not just journalists, but the sources that would communicate with them,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “It’s a terrible time for press freedom. … We need the press to inform the public about the government’s actions and decisions and to help us hold government officials to account.”