Dashcam video and local reporting show federal immigration agents boxed in a Minnesota woman’s vehicle, drew weapons, and forcibly removed her after she refused commands while observing and recording their operation, and the St. Peter police chief later helped ensure she got home safely. DHS claims she refused lawful orders and endangered officers by refusing to pull over and driving recklessly, but video and multiple local accounts make clear this was an aggressive escalation against a citizen simply recording activity in public. What most people are ignoring is that these kinds of confrontations are happening amid a much broader tension after multiple fatal ICE and CBP shootings in Minneapolis, and federal agents are repeatedly turning routine observation into armed arrests instead of de-escalation.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents pulled guns on an unarmed U.S. citizen in a small Minnesota town… then had to be stopped by the local police chief.
This happened in St. Peter, Minnesota. A quiet southern Minnesota town
A local woman was alone in her car, observing and recording ICE… pic.twitter.com/LWpdvKAme6
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They are violating constitutional rights. When constitutional rights are eliminated for some, they are eliminated for everyone. https://t.co/hRKf9rLK6i
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