{"id":510,"date":"2026-06-16T21:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:37:35","slug":"feds-charge-15-minnesotans-with-conspiracy-for-anti-ice-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Feds Charge 15 Minnesotans With Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Federal prosecutors announced charges against 15 protesters in Minnesota on Tuesday, accusing them of \u201cconspiring to interfere with law enforcement\u201d during Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) surge in Minnesota earlier this year. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, Homeland Security officials raided and arrested 12 of the 15 individuals. One was already in custody; two remain at large. <\/p>\n

Daniel Rosen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, began Tuesday\u2019s press conference by asserting that \u201cpolitical violence is a national scourge in our times.\u201d He was not, however, referring to the violence of immigration agents in Minnesota who shot and killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good, or the fact that 50 people have died in ICE jails since the start of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term \u2013 but about anti-ICE protests that erupted after Trump ordered a massive ICE operation in Minnesota in December and January. <\/p>\n

Rosen then said that federal law enforcement are \u201ccombatting\u201d the \u201cviolence\u201d of protesters, and that the 15 defendants took part in a \u201cconspiracy to impede or injure federal officers.\u201d He claimed that the defendants were members or associates of two Minneapolis-based \u201cAntifa\u201d groups that \u201cviolently opposed the enforcement of federal law\u201d during Trump\u2019s so-called Operation Metro Surge.<\/p>\n

The charges include conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, interstate threats, interstate stalking, assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property. <\/p>\n

One of the groups is Direct Action Minnesota, which has organized protests against ICE and against the far right. The group was particularly active in January, as federal immigration agents terrorized immigrant communities, abducted residents, and brutalized protesters.<\/p>\n

During the press conference, Rosen played a video of an individual who said that the situation in Minnesota under ICE\u2019s surge was dire and called for people to bring arms to protest. The individual said he was \u201cAntifa,\u201d which is not an actual organization but a decentralized political movement, short for anti-fascist. <\/p>\n

Rosen also displayed the Facebook page of another group, the Twin Cities Black Cat Worker\u2019s Collective, and decried that it featured a drawing of the burning of Minneapolis\u2019s 3rd Police Precinct during the George Floyd uprisings as its cover image.<\/p>\n

For many, however, the image serves as a reminder of the Trump administration\u2019s desire to clamp down on cities that have held protest movements. Minneapolis was the birthplace of the George Floyd rebellion in 2020; this legacy enabled it to organize and resist Trump\u2019s ICE surge in December and January. And during the George Floyd uprisings, 54 percent of Americans thought the burning of the 3rd police precinct was justified following Floyd\u2019s murder by police. <\/p>\n

Rosen also referred to setting up blockades against ICE as a violent tactic, and called following law enforcement officers \u201cstalking\u201d \u2013 a claim that targets legal observers. <\/p>\n

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Reporters present at Tuesday\u2019s press conference questioned the charges, asking repeatedly whether officers were injured. After first refusing to answer, Rosen said that \u201cwhether or not they actually at the end of the day caused bodily harm is not the measure of whether they committed a serious federal crime.\u201d When a reporter asked if that meant no officers were injured, he said no, but refused to provide details.<\/p>\n

Reporters also noted that between one-third and half of the cases against protesters during ICE\u2019s \u201cOperation Metro Surge\u201d have been dropped or have fallen apart. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve talked about, \u2018those who wish to threaten or harm, they will be held accountable, they will be prosecuted,\u2019\u201d one reporter said. \u201cHere in Minnesota and across the country, people still have questions as to why there isn\u2019t any prosecution or any charges filed against the officers who shot and killed Renee Good or the officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rosen said those were still being investigated. When another reporter asked, \u201cWho\u2019s investigating? Which agencies?\u201d Rosen said he would not be getting into any details. <\/p>\n

Another reporter asked how Rosen defines Antifa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Antifa goes beyond the scope of what this indictment is,\u201d Rosen responded.<\/p>\n

But the Trump-appointed federal attorney included a direct threat in his response to reporters, saying, \u201cIf you are actively conspiring to impede law enforcement\u2026 you ought to go on the assumption that we\u2019re watching you and that we\u2019ll get you.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2018Impeding\u2019 law enforcement, however, is so broad a charge that it would likely apply to anti-ICE protesters across the country, such as those outside New Jersey\u2019s Delaney Hall \u2014 making it clear that the aim of the administration is to clamp down on any resistance against its anti-immigrant agenda.<\/p>\n

Protesters gathered outside of the Minneapolis federal courthouse after the charges were announced on Tuesday, with speakers from the National Lawyers Guild and others in solidarity with the defendants. Community defense attorney Anna Hall called the charges a \u201cnaked political attack on Minnesota.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of ongoing repression by Donald Trump and his administration since at least December 2025 here in Minnesota, and all we\u2019re seeing is this continuing to escalate,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n

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