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Summary of The MeidasTouch Podcast Episode: All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump’s ICE Attacks 6-Month-Old!!
Episode Overview In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, host Ben Meiselas discusses the escalating situation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, where ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has allegedly been terrorizing local communities, including targeting children and babies. The episode highlights disturbing incidents involving ICE's actions and the community's response through protests and resistance.
Key Themes and Discussions
- Escalation of ICE Activities
- Description of Actions: ICE is accused of operating like a paramilitary force, likened to "Trump's Gestapo," aggressively patrolling neighborhoods and deploying excessive force against protesters and community members.
- Community Impact: The actions of ICE have led to fear and tension within the communities, particularly affecting families and children.
- Protests Against ICE Operations
- Local Response: Community members have organized protests in response to ICE's tactics, often facing significant police presence and aggression.
- Notable Incidents:
- Protesters have faced harassment, pepper spraying, and physical violence from ICE agents.
- Footage shared in the episode demonstrates violent confrontations and the chaotic environment created by ICE and local law enforcement.
- Media Coverage and Documentation
- Partnership with Status Coup: Ben emphasizes working with Status Coup, a grassroots media organization capturing real-time footage of the protests and ICE's actions, which has not been widely covered by mainstream media.
- Evidence Presentation: Clips and photos of ICE interactions with the community are presented to illustrate the severity of the situation.
- Racial Profiling and Civil Rights Violations
- Examples of Racial Profiling: Testimonies from community members detail instances of racial profiling by ICE, targeting individuals based on their appearance rather than any criminal behavior.
- Law Enforcement's Role: Discussion includes the complicity of local law enforcement in these actions, raising concerns over their alignment with community safety versus enforcing federal directives.
- Impact on Families and Children
- Horrific Incidents: The episode culminates in a serious incident where tear gas deployed by ICE reportedly led to a six-month-old child being hospitalized.
- Call for Accountability: Ben criticizes DHS for denying responsibility and propagating false narratives about the events, urging listeners to support accountability measures.
- Community Solidarity and Resistance
- Camaraderie Among Protesters: Despite the harsh conditions, including cold weather, protesters show resilience, supporting one another and expressing their commitment to end ICE's aggressive actions.
- Empowerment through Action: Community members are encouraged to remain active and engaged in protests, emphasizing the importance of standing up against what they perceive as tyranny.
Key Takeaways
- The episode illustrates the intense conflict between ICE operations and community rights, highlighting significant civil rights concerns.
- The importance of grassroots media in documenting and reporting on such events is emphasized.
- The MeidasTouch Podcast serves as a platform for amplifying voices from the ground, advocating for democratic values and community safety.
Conclusion The episode showcases a pivotal moment in the ongoing struggle against oppressive immigration enforcement tactics. It reflects broader themes of resistance, community solidarity, and the urgent need for accountability in law enforcement practices. The MeidasTouch Podcast continues to serve as a vital resource for those seeking to understand and engage with these critical issues in contemporary America.
Additional Resources
- [MeidasTouch Website](https://www.meidastouch.com)
- [Status Coup YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/StatusCoup)
- Subscribe to the MeidasTouch and Status Coup for future updates on these issues and more.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOThe Role of Status Coup in Reporting
0:46 to 2:09
Discussion about the importance of Status Coup's reporting on ICE activities.
“They've been doing incredible work, and it's been an honor to work with them.”
Protesters Confront ICE Agents
2:10 to 4:54
Description of protesters confronting ICE agents and their actions during the protests.
“Next, I'll show you this clip brought to you by Status Coup.”
Excessive Force by ICE
4:55 to 7:54
Narration of incidents showcasing excessive force used by ICE agents against protesters.
“citizen community volunteer kneeling on his head and neck.”
Experiences of Protesters
7:55 to 10:46
First-hand accounts from protesters about their experiences with ICE at the protests.
“I was in the signal group to observe ICE.”
The Importance of Community Engagement
10:47 to 14:02
Discussion on community involvement and engagement against ICE actions.
“These people that are, again, kidnapping and murdering in mass right now with absolutely no oversight whatsoever because they feel like it, because someone has brown skin.”
Minneapolis Protester Speaks Out
14:02 to 15:23
A Minneapolis protester shares their experience and thoughts on the current situation.
“Show them what they're really up against.”
Disturbing Encounters with ICE
15:24 to 17:48
The discussion highlights alarming incidents involving ICE agents and their treatment of individuals.
“It's all of us have other things to be doing.”
Tear Gas and Children at Protests
17:49 to 20:18
The segment reveals shocking events where tear gas was deployed near children during protests.
“Don't tell me to calm him the fuck down.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00All hell continues to break loose in Minneapolis and St. Paul as the Trump regime's Metro Surge continues to escalate. Donald Trump's Gestapo, his SS, his paramilitary forces, ICE, and Border Patrol are continuing to terrorize communities there. We have the receipts. We have the photos. We have the videos. We've been working with an incredible organization called Status Coup. They have reporters on the ground, and they've been getting exclusive footage that's leading the news cycle in what's taking place that you're not going to see anywhere else. Make sure you subscribe to the Status Coup YouTube page.
0:45Make sure you subscribe to the Status Coup Substack. They've been doing incredible work, and it's been an honor to work with them. Let me show you what's really going down right now as Trump's Gestapo is terrorizing these communities. Right here, you have, there he is, the border chief, Greg Bovino, with his goons, with his SS, with his Gestapo. And you'll see the protesters are saying, you coward, you chicken shit, you F word. And they're yelling that at Bovino as Bovino and his gang, his roving SS, the paramilitary right there, just go around and they harass people and terrorize people. I mean, just take a look at what they're doing here.
1:30Play this clip.
1:55Brown shirts! Brown shirts! Brown shirts!
2:09Get it out of the road. Out of the road now.
2:19Hey, hey, jump that bottle. Jump that bottle. You're all fucking pretend. Coward chicken shit fucks. You are not a loser. Next, I'll show you this clip brought to you by Status Coup. ICE agents arrest a protester outside the Minneapolis Federal Building as an agent dressed in soldier fatigues points his gun at protesters. Stand real big with your effing weapon, the protesters say. It's negative nine degree wind chill. Watch what happens. Play this clip.
3:29you guys see the group of border patrol and ICE that are terrorizing the communities there. You effing Nazis. You don't effing care about the law. You're effing degenerates. The Minneapolis ICE protesters yell at the swarm of ICE agents line up. Protesters are out in the bitter cold brought to you by Status Coup. Here, play this clip. Starting to line up like toy soldiers, at least not exactly in a something a the military would would find acceptable but at least a little bit better than the usual kind of like mob assembly that they had before now this next one doesn't come from status coup but it's important to share with you new footage from minneapolis shows a border patrol agent kneeling a man in the face as he's pinned down it's clearly excessive force right here watch what goes down play this clip oh oh stop hey stop me give the face that's his face stop it and here's another video right here ice claim this video was edited it's not dhs had been asking people to take it down people refused agents are brutally detaining a U.S.
4:57citizen community volunteer kneeling on his head and neck. Here, play this clip right here.
5:25in this next video you're going to see it's a new video out of Minneapolis showing the truth that ICE does not want you to see. Jeez, and F in Congress doing a great job here bringing this to you. What you'll see here is a traffic stop without any cause at all. Show us your ID. It's just people who have brown skin are being racially profiled. And then fortunately, it's on camera because another ICE Gestapo, our Border Patrol Gestapo, they wear masks, so it's hard to even distinguish who's who there in terms of the Gestapo, starts banging almost to break the window down on the passenger side in an effort to try to escalate.
6:06And then if people get freaked out, then they use the force and either try to kill the person or severely injure the person and then say, oh, you were resisting. You were resisting. Here, play this clip. How's it going, sir? Good, sir. Can I see your ID, please? Can I ask why I was bored? Sure, no problem, sir. I'll get out. Sir, sir. Yes, sir. We're cooperating. You mind if you take off your face mask? Just me. You can hold on. Let me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, don't be hitting my shit. Motherfucker. I appreciate you not having a mask on while you do your fucking job. All right. Well, you're fucking fine.
6:43Are you in danger? Sure. Are you escalating? Are you escalating shit? All of this? Cause you can't pay back your fucking bonus. You bitch. Okay. Great. Relax. mother fucker six week training and there's what the fuck this is what they're training you to do escalate shit hey dude you're safe hey are you feeling unsafe or uneasy i don't know man okay you're going with the sun i got one with the mask here how many guns are around me how many guns do i have around me am i only how many guns no you calm down sir and he i need him to stop banging on my shit am i asking for a lot am i asking for a lot i'll get off the vehicle i'll i'll let you guys do, we will both get off the vehicle.
7:21I want to show you an example where they then went and attacked somebody. So here is a protester who's out there. You'll see his black eye. You'll see the bruises. He talks about how an ICE officer charged him with pepper spray, clocked him in the eye, knocked off his glasses, then clocked him again, pepper sprayed him more, then arrested him. And again, these are obviously illegal tactics. And this person was just an observer there with his whistle, allowed to be there, nonviolent, brutalized by the ICE Gestapo. Here, play this clip. So what happened? I was in the signal group to observe ICE.
8:01And we were called in because someone, one of our observers was being pepper sprayed and they had just arrived watching ICE. ice was door knocking in the neighborhood and I pulled up I started honking my horn I got out with my whistle and I was holding my hand up to to show that my hand had nothing in it and I was blowing with my whistle in my other hand and the officer charged me with pepper spray sprayed himself in the face first unfortunately for him then he charged me again with more pepper spray and then just clocked me in the eye knocked off my glasses I didn't do anything aggressive towards him at all.
8:38I was 20 or 30 feet away from him. And then he clocked me again with more pepper spray and punching me. And then they arrested me. And he said that I assaulted him. I had done nothing. I've just been using my whistle and showing my open palm to the officer. The judge's order just came down and there was a federal injunction saying that they cannot do specifically what you just said they did. They did exactly all that. And we have observers that I hope recorded it all. next uh you'll see an ice protester telling zach roberts zach roberts is the reporter out there with status quo um he goes we're protesting fascists even when it's cold we protest fascists here play this clip yeah yeah no we had a couple of fires going to keep people warm because obviously we're protesting fascists so it's a day and night thing even when it's cold as hell they decided to show up to make sure that we fuck you to make sure that we put out our fires they had about 17 police officers show up not to protect us from the nazis 30 feet away but to put out our fires that's the issue right now that's what everyone needs protecting from these isolated fires that we had in meddleton's jesus christ that you cannot trust these people they're all doing the same thing.
9:56They're all they're all out here. They're out here to agitate us. That's what police officers just showed up to do. They were begging. They had their pepper spray out already. They were begging to fucking hit us. We obviously didn't give them reason to because we're out here for fucking Nazis. If they want to claim that they're with them, then they're with them. We're protesting them as well. What do you have to say to your elected officials? Honestly, at this point, grow a spine. These people are kidnapping people in masks. They're murdering people in the streets without any sort of due process, any sort of anything, really.
10:27There's no red tape for these people doing it. The person who just murdered Rene Good raised about$500 ,000 to keep sitting on his ass doing fucking nothing. So we know where our elected officials stand. They stand with the Nazis right now. They don't think... They said he didn't believe in abolishing ICE. What the fuck is up with that? That's what I mean. They can't. They can't say they'd abolish these Nazis. They'd abolish this Gestapo group. They can't even say that. These people that are, again, kidnapping and murdering in mass right now with absolutely no oversight whatsoever because they feel like it, because someone has brown skin.
11:00It's ridiculous. Acting as if we need to be peaceful against these people is ridiculous. They're murdering people in the streets. And here you'll see the community, the camaraderie of the protesters. With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. Na na na na na na na na na hey hey hey goodbye. Here play this clip right here.
11:53Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
12:02No, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye. No, no, no, no. No, no, no.
12:19Also pickle Rick was able to speak with status coup play this clip. So what brings you out again tonight? This is what I have to do when I have spare time I have to be out for my community in every way I can it is I think it is probably about 20 30 degrees colder than it was last time we talked What's um, I guess what keeps you coming out here every night? This is Minnesota spring. We're used to this So this keeps me warm and it keeps me engaged. It lets me talk to people like you and yell at some of these fucking assholes that are terrorizing my city, our state, and fucking all of the U.S. We gotta put an end to it.
13:03Because it will be coming to other towns. They're not just gonna stop here.
13:11so have you uh have you been out here when they they raid across the street and they like pepper spray and attack everyone yeah a few times yeah i i think it's hilarious when they're pushing a guy in a pickle it's like i am so scary a guy in a freaking pickle costume does the does the costume provide any protection actually it does it does i guess i could see a be helpful yeah do you have anything that you'd uh want to try to tell people like that maybe aren't coming out i think to some extent it's a little bit understandable tonight but uh like that uh aren't coming out and uh uh to get them kind of like motivated to get get out of the streets yes um i i'm talking to the geek community in minneapolis and the surrounding areas come out dressed up as your favorite cosplay.
14:04Show them what they're really up against. Show them what real cosplays look like instead of the bullshit fake costumes they have on. Let your geek flag fly. This is the place to do it. And here you'll see a Minneapolis protester say we didn't fight wars just to see people grabbed off the streets here. Here, play this clip. I live in Minneapolis. I'm from, lived in Minnesota most of my life. and I took a half day off of work just so I could be down here. I used to ride my bike around here just a couple months ago during the spring and summertime. I was riding my bicycle. This is a great area to ride around.
14:42There's all sorts of great trails in Minnesota, Minneapolis. If ice goes home, we go home. It's that simple. We all have other things we could be doing, but defending America, it's ironic that we're right by the Veterans Administration Building because this is not why we fought wars. We didn't fight wars so we could have this happen in America. We're not in Venezuela releasing people in Venezuela to be capturing people in Minneapolis in America. We try to take care of each other the best we can. It's cold, you know. When it's cold, you got to help each other out to stay warm and you got to help each other out to make sure that people aren't just being kidnapped off of the street.
15:23so it's uh i was out for renee goods march on her behalf a few days ago with thousands of people i was out at the state capitol a year ago it was like negative 20 or something like that right after the inauguration saying this is a bad idea i was saying at the capitol this is a bad idea a year ago and coming up it's a year later and it's a bad idea it's not enough that they lost the election they have to destroy the opponent and the fact that walls is still out there talking they want to punish us and the fact that ilhan omar is smarter than all these dumb bastards trying to interview her is causing issues for him too the uh the president uh has uh said it's basically threatening to uh use the insurrection act on on the city and the state um what's that that you can see thousands of troops on the ground he basically kind of can do anything he wants with uh what's within the realm of the president quote presidential powers What is it like to have that threatened by the president of the United States against a state, an American state?
16:26Yeah, it's intense. It's all of us have other things to be doing. You know, and what's going to happen is that Minneapolis is still going to take care of each other. We're still going to look out for each other. I think it was Frey and the Minneapolis police chief already saying that the Minneapolis PD is outnumbered four to one as it is. and we don't know what's going on, if they're gonna actually have the National Guard. And what we saw last night in North Minneapolis that I saw on Status Quo was really disturbing, where we saw the state patrol with batons out and the state patrol wasn't obviously on the side of the people of Minnesota.
17:02It's not obvious that the Minneapolis PD is on the side of the people of Minnesota. They were out there too. Yeah, and what's happened, this isn't COVID, this isn't George Floyd, this is an entirely new scenario.
17:16And watch this as ICE detained a 50-year-old permanent resident and threatened to arrest the son when he tries to hand over legal documents. He pointed a gun at me, he said, for showing up with paperwork. The mother was followed, going to work, and put in handcuffs, racially profiled. If I hadn't been 10 minutes away, she would have been gone, and I would have had no way of finding her. She was just going to work and not causing trouble, arrested for fitting the profile. The young man says ICE agents do not deserve his respect because they are racially profiling people. Play this clip.
18:13He cuffs off of her. So what is he waiting for? What is he waiting for? Go ahead Nick, cuffs off. He's a permanent racist. Don't tell me to calm him the fuck down. You guys know what the fuck you guys are doing here. No, I do know what I'm doing. Yeah, profiling her. No, she wasn't profiling. Yes, she was. She was not. No, she wasn't. What did she do wrong? Yeah, okay.
18:36You think your kids are going to be proud of you guys? Don't do that. You think your kids are going to be proud of you guys? He's a bad girl. That's why you're scared to cover your face because she's a fucking pussy. You really need to cover yourself. Yeah, gracias.
18:52Go ahead and get out of here.
19:00Fucking pussy. You're a cocksucker, man. Yeah? Yeah? I'm the cocksucker. I'm the cocksucker. Fucking bitch. Fucking bitch. Yeah, hey, you're a black man too, bro. You should at least have some dignity yourself. No, you don't. No, you don't.
19:31And finally, I just share this with you. DHS posted this, but then took it down. ABC's story was, two children, including a six-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety, to which Homeland Security responded, it is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots. Please stop endangering your children. As Adam Cochran writes, DHS had to delete this post because the family was driving home and got blocked. ICE deployed flashbangs and tear gas inside the car.
20:08The six-month-old child stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital. DHS did no investigation and rushed to lie to defend the officers. There you have it. Reminder, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. But more importantly than subscribing to our YouTube or the Minus Touch Substack, subscribe to Status Coups YouTube. Subscribe to their Substack. Let's get them a million subscribers. Let's get their sub stack to be one of the most followed sub stacks in the country. They're doing such incredible on the ground coverage of the protests. So hit subscribe.
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