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Uncle Joe

(65,924 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 12:41 PM 6 hrs ago

"The Point Is to Spread Fear": DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota



Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have announced criminal charges against 15 people in connection with anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities. The defendants are accused of "conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers" and of allegedly "violently" impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis during Trump's so-called Operation Metro Surge, during which thousands of federal immigration agents were deployed and fatally shot two U.S. citizens.

The indictment focuses on Direct Action Minnesota, or DAMN, a broad activist coalition that prosecutors have linked to anti-fascist, or "antifa," groups. Last fall, President Trump categorized antifa as a "domestic terror organization" even though it is not an actual group.
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"The Point Is to Spread Fear": DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota (Original Post) Uncle Joe 6 hrs ago OP
I suppose it's only logical... GiqueCee 4 hrs ago #1

GiqueCee

(4,986 posts)
1. I suppose it's only logical...
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 02:54 PM
4 hrs ago

... for fascists to condemn anti-fascism, and they're counting on their supporters' congenital inability to count to eleven with their shoes on, never mind connecting Antifa with the 400+ thousand loyal Americans lying in Arlington Cemetery after giving their lives fighting the fascism these asswipes now promote as their preferred alternative to representative democracy.
I look forward to reading with undisguised delight the obituaries of all the mutant traitors responsible for this obscene travesty.
America, we hardly knew ye. And now a horrifying percentage of the population subscribes to a malevolent political "philosophy" that their fathers and grandfathers fought to defeat. Do these fucking idiots even know there was a World War II?

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