"They're holding indigenous people there because they're trying to finish the genocides they already started."
Some voices from Occupied Minnesota 🧵
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"Minneapolis will not lay down, we will not roll over and we will not lick the boot of the oppressor. We're demanding ICE stop using postal property to stage raids. We don't want to be around masked thugs, secret police with guns. Your letter carriers are not working with ICE."
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"Trump is a treasonous traitor, he doesn't know anything about our constitution, our rights, or our country. He's an absolute moron, he's a criminal, he's a paedophile, and a paedophile protector. This is a police state."
This lady came from Ohio to protest.
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"The domestic terrorists are in the White House. If they think Renee Good was a radical, they wouldn't want to meet me. They are afraid of when we're united and we have power. They're trying to divide us. We're all working class people. We need to outsmart this regime."
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"I haven't seen [the police] protect us yet, as of now they're here to protect ICE, I see people go out there to lay out flowers - cops push them back."
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"Trump is going to do whatever he can to declare martial law before November so there won't be any midterms; this is his plan, whether it's Civil War or war w/ other countries. He's setting us up - we're in some kind of dystopian world."
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“As of yesterday, the Whipple Federal building - ground zero for detentions here in Minnesota - stopped allowing attorneys into the building to meet with clients who are non-citizens.”
Thousands of people have been arrested during ICE operations in Minnesota over the past two weeks. Multiple attorneys allege that for some of those detained, including at least one U.S. citizen, DHS is denying their constitutional right to see an attorney.
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