Federal prosecutors last week announced indictments against 15 people for a long list of serious charges, from assaulting a federal officer to destruction of government property, and more.
The federal charges are related to so-called “direct action” by hundreds of communist street activists who fought thousands of federal agents during the months-long ICE operation in the Minneapolis area called “Operation Metro Surge.”
The press release from the Department of Justice states all 15 defendants are members of the group Direct Action Minnesota. That umbrella group is made up of smaller Antifa-associated clubs whose members hold anarchist and communist views about government and law enforcement, the DOJ alleges.
Rather than a traditional street protest, “direct action” is a more in-your-face tactic whose purpose is to disrupt and obstruct ICE agents who are conducting immigration enforcement.
Max Rymer, a Republican state representative, told American Family News it was “high time” the perpetrators face justice for what they’ve done.
“Why these people are so emboldened to commit violence against federal immigration authorities,” he said, “is because there haven't been consequences for this.”
According to the DOJ, Direct Action Minnesota opposed “Operation Metro Surge” with a well-coordinated campaign of training, planning, and communication. Because the activists discussed their plans on Signal, federal prosecutors are using those discussions to charge the 15 defendants with conspiracy-related crimes before their “direct action” took place.
Good was member of 'ICE Watch'
In the current political climate, where Democrats compare President Trump to Hitler and liken ICE agents to the Gestapo, the communist activists are told in their training they’re conducting “community self-defense” against fascist agent who are kidnapping their neighbors.
That type of confrontation, which risks crossing a legal line from protester to attacker, is why anti-ICE activist Renee Good was behind the wheel of her SUV when she was fatally shot by an ICE agent after driving toward him on an icy Minneapolis street.
Good, who is now treated like a political martyr by her side, was a member of an “ICE Watch” group that followed ICE agents and reported their locations.
Rep. Rymer, who represents House District 28B, said Minnesota has become a lawless state become the modern-day Democrats are socialists.
“It is not your grandparent's Democrat party here in Minnesota,” he warned. “It is a completely radicalized Democrat-socialist, no-accountability government.”
