All Hell Breaks Loose as ICE Goes After Meidas!!!

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0:53Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose as Donald Trump's ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo are now going after Midas Touch. The Midas Touch Network posted a video of the ICE Border Patrol Gestapo attacking a United States citizen horrifically. It was caught on camera. David Beyer was the first to post it. This took place in Minnesota. And then the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo through the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded and went after the Midas Touch for just showing a video of the objective facts that just went down in Minnesota. We wrote on our account, watch these thugs. This isn't law enforcement.

1:41Ben Meiselas:These are criminals. And we were amplifying David Byers post of how the Department of Homeland Security agent, unclear if it's Border Patrol or ICE because they all wear masks, but they're all Gestapo and SS. there in Minnesota. They swerved in front of an unarmed woman who was recording them. And once again, they walk in front of the car with their guns drawn and threatened to kill the woman who was observing their conduct. That's why she was out there. She was an Ice and Border Patrol observer. The only thing they learned from Renee Good and the Alex Preti murders is how to get away with killing people.

2:20Ben Meiselas:A local cop had to intervene to stop the illegal arrest. So first, let me show you this video and then I'll show you what the Department of Homeland Security said, I believe, to try to intimidate us. Here, play this clip.

2:39Marni von Wilpert:I think someone needs to call 9-1-1. They are seriously attacking me. We'll call 9-1-1 right now. What's your location? Call 9-1-1. I'm right at the corner of Jefferson.

2:54Ben Meiselas:Get out of the car right now.

2:56Marni von Wilpert:No, no, I will not. I will not get out of the car. No, no. I will not get out of the car. You guys, I need CEOs here. No, I will not get out of the car. You can't do this. Get your hands off of me.

3:16Ben Meiselas:Get your fucking hands off me. Get your hands off me. I am not doing shit. I am observant.

3:32Ben Meiselas:I am not doing shit. I am not doing shit. This is my constitutional right.

3:41Marni von Wilpert:You cannot arrest me. I am observing. You cannot arrest me. I am observing. I am not taking a video too.

3:54Ben Meiselas:Get off of me. Get off of me.

3:58Marni von Wilpert:Don't do a rest.

3:59Ben Meiselas:Someone call the police. Call the police. Call the police. Call them now. Call them now. Call them now. We're calling 911.

4:20Ben Meiselas:So then the horrific video, right? Then the Department of Homeland Security responded to us directly. And here's what they said to us. As the Department of Homeland Security, gov law enforcement, they were conducting a targeted operation to arrest a serial criminal illegal alien whose rap sheet includes multiple arrests for assault, domestic violence, and driving under the influence. An agitator began stalking and obstructing law enforcement. Just pause there for a moment. This is their MO. This is what they say all the time. They're out here getting the pedos. They're out here getting the violent criminals.

5:01Ben Meiselas:But then when they're actually called out. It turns out they're not doing that at all. That very small fraction of the people they go after are actually criminals. We all agree that criminals need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, deported, prosecuted, whatever. That's not what these SS, these paramilitary border patrol and ICE thugs are doing. Then they use language like stalking, obstructing. You mean the First Amendment right to observe you? We all have that right under the Constitution. And this idea of secret police wearing masks and, oh, your docs, local law enforcement doesn't do that.

5:41Ben Meiselas:Anyway, let's go through DHS's response to Midas Touch. Law enforcement officers attempted to pull her over using their emergency lights to issue her a warning. Ignoring law enforcement commands, the agitator refused to pull over and began driving recklessly, including running stop signs nearly colliding with multiple vehicles and driving directly at law enforcement in an attempt to ram their vehicle. See what they're doing right here? They're creating another pretext that she's a domestic terrorist. She's the bad guy. Don't believe your own eyes, which you saw on the video. Trust Christie. No, her actions endangered law enforcement officers, the public, and allowed this violent criminal to remain at large.

6:29Ben Meiselas:Ah, so you're saying it was her fault. I got it. She did it. No, y 'all are a bunch of sociopaths and you lie the way bad second grade liars lie. Like it's obvious it's juvenile in nature. Then it goes on to say our officers arrested the agitator. Obstructing law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime. Why are you getting in our messages? Why do you think you need to propagandize in replies to the Midas Touch account? We see what we see on the video. So stop your propaganda. You are not welcome in the Midas Touch network accounts where we're out here trying to tell the truth. Speaking of telling the truth, we're out here in Los Angeles that's where we're based but we have reporters across the country and shout out to our friends at status coup who are in Minneapolis still and they're recording the peaceful protests there and they're still documenting what's taking place that first video wasn't from status coup but that took place very recently post Greg Bovino when uh Donald Trump said oh it's a tone change and the media was like they're changing tone no they aren't let me show you what just took place in El Monte, California.

7:48Ben Meiselas:I want to show you Maria Sante. She's a hero. She's a well-known legal observer. She shows up to help the migrant community, and she was targeted by the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo, who pointed weapons at her. They knocked through her window. They broke through her car simply because she was observing them. Watch what takes place here. Let's play this clip.

8:42Marni von Wilpert:I was unlocking the door. Guys, my phone's under here.

8:51Ben Meiselas:And I want to show you what's happening in the rest of the country over the past day or so. So you know that, you know, even though we focused a lot on what was going down in Minneapolis or St. Paul or Chicago, ICE is involved in this conduct across the country right now. So here's a story. This right here is in Stonebridge Road and Cedar Creek Road in the North Midland neighborhood in Texas. Nine people, nine migrants who were roofers. They were working on building pretty big homes in this North Midland area. and the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo did an alliance with the fire department and the local sheriff's office because in Texas, in these right-wing towns and cities and state, they help ICE and Border Patrol attack their own workers.

9:46Ben Meiselas:So what I want to share with you right here is you'll see the ICE and firefighters going after roofers who are literally on the roof working on homes, trying to build homes right now in this country. That's who you're attacking. So Department of Homeland Security, when you get in our messages and you're like, oh, we're going after the most violent, you're going after roofers who are out there working and doing jobs that these construction companies aren't able to hire anybody else. These people should be applauded and be paid more, not ripped from the roofs. Here, play this clip. We are here and some people are being witnesses to what is going on.

10:29Ben Meiselas:We can tell that some of them are actually concerned for their safety. As we mentioned earlier, we spoke with some neighbors and they did say that they believed this to be a medical emergency. And then they saw HSI, they saw people with green uniforms.

10:47Ben Meiselas:We do know that they were trying to pepper spray a few of them. Like we've mentioned before, the Midland Fire Department is present. Midland County Sheriff's Office is also present. Earlier we did see people with an HSI badge and police ICE logo in the back of their jacket. There is various witnesses to this. This is happening in a neighborhood in Midland. It is in Stonebridge Drive and Porterfield Road. We have been here for what is about an

11:24Ben Meiselas:hour as we are seeing they are trying to run and try to get them. And then we'll go from Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Monty, and let's go to Utah. This is happening everywhere. Trump's goons broke into a locked auto body shop without a warrant in Utah. And then the owner of the body shop is like, you just broke into my business. Like this is my, what do you, you didn't show me a warrant and Trump's goons, his border patrol, Gestapo say, we don't need to show you anything. We don't need to do anything at all. Here, play this clip. Look at this, look at these, where's your guys' warrant? Stay back.

12:04Ben Meiselas:Where's your guys' warrant? Stay back. No, where's your warrant? Stay back. Where's the warrant? Stand right there. Where's the warrant? I don't need one. Yes, you do. Where's the warrant? You guys do this? I need you to wrap that up. For what? Stay back. Stop getting closer to me. Stay back. I'm back. I'm back. I'm going to do to you. I'm back. Wait, you guys have to leave. My lawyer is coming. Good. You guys want to get sued? Are you done? What's your badge number? Stay back. No, I want to get you guys. I want, all right. Yes, you guys aren't supposed to be back here. Stand back here. You can record, but stand back here.

12:55Ben Meiselas:I'm already back here. You guys haven't shown me. You guys haven't identified yourself. I don't know who the you guys are. Who the, what the is that? What the is that? Federal agent. I need a warrant. I need a warrant. You do not need a warrant. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. You know how you guys came in? Illegally. No. You guys broke the window. Yes, we did. Because you guys don't have a warrant.

13:20Marni von Wilpert:We don't need one.

13:21Ben Meiselas:Yes, you do. Hey, what the I ain't doing? I'm making sure he's safe. Excuse you. Meanwhile, you had Greg Bovino partying it up in Las Vegas. Here he is in Las Vegas at the clubs while ICE and Border Patrol continued to terrorize people in this country. Also, the New York Times reporting how the Border Patrol leader, Greg Bovino, mocked the Jewish faith of U.S. Attorney in Minnesota during a call with lawyers, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation. Shout out to some of the celebrities now who are calling out ICE and Border Patrol terrorism. I showed you Bruce Springsteen before, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Becky G with her F ICE fingernails.

14:10Ben Meiselas:You even had Garcia, the boxer, Ryan Garcia, say that he's recanting his, he said reclining, but he meant recanting any support that he gave to Donald Trump after the Epstein files were released and Trump's name appeared on the Epstein files over 5 ,000 times in some of the most despicable ways, along with the cabal of Trump regime officials. Howard Lutnick's name appeared. Elon Musk's name appeared. The new guy that Trump appointed, Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve Chairman, his name appeared. Look, when we're talking about ICE terrorism too, I think it's important to note, as I said, this is still happening every day in cities and towns across the country.

14:54Ben Meiselas:So stop with the new tone crap. So I want to bring in Marnie Vaughn Wilpert. She's a San Diego city council member because San Diego is still under attack. Every day in San Diego, ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo are terrorizing people there. And Marnie's been fighting back with the city council. And she's also running for Congress from California's 48th congressional district against Daryl Aysa. It's a competitive primary with lots of Democratic candidates who are running. Marnie, San Diego City Council. She believes that she flipped a red seat to become that city council member. Let's bring in Marnie.

15:36Ben Meiselas:Here's the interview that I just did with Marnie. And so while Greg Bovino is leaving Minneapolis and St. Paul, he's now heading, unfortunately, to San Diego. And the San Diego community has already been terrorized by Bovino's thugs and the ICE Border Patrol thugs and Gestapo before. We've covered here last year, restaurants being raided and communities being terrorized. And now Bovino is back. I want to speak to a San Diego City Council member, Marnie von Wilpert, who's also running for Congress against a MAGA Republican candidate, Darrell Issa, in the newly redrawn California's 48th District.

16:21Ben Meiselas:It's an important district redrawn after Prop 50. And this is one of the areas that Democrats need and many people believe Democrats will get. It's unclear what ICE is going to do. He's running away from all the members of the press when they try to ask him questions on Capitol Hill. But Marnie, let's talk first about Bovino and we'll talk about the race. But Bovino is coming into your city. You're a city council member. Previously, you were a deputy city attorney there. You were a prosecutor in the city and before that, a labor attorney as well. But talk to us, how are you preparing for this and what are you doing to push back?

17:00Marni von Wilpert:Yeah, so we have been raising all the alarms. You know, here in the city of San Diego, we do not need to see what's happening, the chaos and terror on the streets of Minneapolis. And Bobino is coming back to Southern California. I've called on President Trump to fire Bobino, not to give him a new post where he can wreak new havoc on our communities. I've also called on Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem. She needs to go. She has failed and derelicted her duty to keep America safe. And we're preparing here in San Diego County. So I'm leading a vote on Monday at the San Diego City Council to join the lawsuit with Minneapolis against ICE and Donald Trump.

17:39Marni von Wilpert:We, too, have seen chaotic ice raids here in San Diego, where ice officers are walking into the middle of a crowded restaurant on a weekend with their full riot gear on. And of course, it causes havoc and panic and just so they can arrest the kitchen staff.

17:56Ben Meiselas:So is that what one of the things that we're seeing that all these we have to keep track of everything. So, you know, because also, you know, authoritarianism spreads in silence like right now. On any given weekend, you know, is ICE still going into restaurants and terrorizing people? Maybe not with the visuals we're seeing in Minneapolis, but is that going on now?

18:20Marni von Wilpert:Oh, yeah. It happens all the time here in San Diego. And, you know, we are doing the best we can to fight back. You know, we've also passed a due process ordinance requiring any federal agent to have a warrant, a judicial warrant, not one signed by their own officers to come on to any city owned land. We have know your rights trainings going on. But, you know, I'm running for Congress because this race is about the future of our democracy. This is one of the top five seats in the nation we have to take back to get control of the House. And we have to hold Donald Trump accountable. We have to restore Congress as a co-equal branch of government that stands up for the Constitution and the American people.

18:57Marni von Wilpert:You know, I've been a San Diego City Council member here for five years now. We're the eighth largest city in the country. So it's a big city that I govern. And just like I've been here, I've been a champion for working families. I started the first teacher down payment assistance program so that teachers, public school teachers, could afford to buy homes in the communities where they teach. I wrote the first law in the nation requiring grocery stores to not require senior citizens to download an app and find digital coupons merely to get discounts on the food they buy. So I'm doing everything I can to lower our cost of living, make the economy work for all of us.

19:35Marni von Wilpert:Donald Trump and Daryl Issa are raising all of our costs. with this tariff war that's increasing the price of everything. And Daryl Issa just voted again to increase the price of health care by not joining Republicans to restore the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. So I'm going to get into Congress and fight back and make sure I'm a champion for working people across this country.

19:56Ben Meiselas:One of the things that's really impressive about your background among a lot of things is you flipped a very, very right-wing city council district blue that nobody thought was possible. You and I were joking before we went on. I said, so you were the city prosecutor, you were a successful labor attorney. Then you decided to jump into this. But it's important to note, you didn't just jump into any city council seat. That city council seat was kind of as right wing as it gets. And you flipped that one. So talk to us about that, because I think the lessons there may apply now and may apply across the country right now about how you did that and kind of pushed back against this disinformation MAGA machine where they, you know, lie to the people all of the time and get some people to vote against their interests.