The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement: "In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.  Based on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:  The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody. DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago. The individual is not currently under DOC supervision." On its website, the DOC mentions other statistics it claims federal officials have been inaccurate about.  "The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to release false numbers about ICE detainers in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) has provided verified data and requested clarification. DHS has not responded," according to the DOC.  A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told the AP Pretti was armed with a handgun, but several angles of the incident appear to show multiple agents striking him repeatedly on the ground and securing a handgun moments before Pretti was killed.

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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,” a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me. “Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,” the official explained. The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct. This includes not just ICE but other Department of Homeland Security agencies like Border Patrol as well. The ultimate goal is to create a list of anti-ICE protestors, which the Trump administration believes are part of an organized network of domestic terrorists. A loose-lipped ICE agent in Portland, Maine publicly hinted at the effort in an exchange on Friday that was captured on video. The video shows the ICE agent taking pictures of a car belonging to a woman who had been recording him, prompting her to ask why. The ICE agent replies: “‘Cause we have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that.” The remark wasn’t just bravado or trolling. In addition to what my own sources at DHS are telling me, David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, published a report last month pulling together reams of incidents similar to the one in Portland. The report concludes that DHS has a formal policy of intimidating people trying to film them on the dubious legal grounds that doing so amounts to impeding federal enforcement. “DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities,” the report says. But the policy goes farther than just deterring people from filming ICE. As my source explained to me, the Department of Homeland Security is moving to collect intelligence on and watchlist protesters. Asked about the purpose of DHS policy of filming the ICE filmers, Bier told me that the information are being fed into databases for possible future law enforcement action. “ICE agents film arrests both to feed the DHS social media blitz and to identify them,” Bier told me. “They upload information to their databases and see if they have outstanding warrants or are here illegally.” The practice can also be seen in the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month. Video of the incident shows ICE Agent Jonathan Ross holding up a phone and filming Good in her vehicle shortly before the shooting.

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“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

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Would it play out the same today? My guess is no. Trump would most likely bomb them vindictively for having the audacity to try and stand up to him, and then accuse them, and their families, of being Antifa terrorists who shot first at U.S. troops, who were only trying to carry out “legal” and “legitimate” operations to protect U.S. lives. View quoted note →

Bondi let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. Once again, Republicans and Trump are planning on stealing the election Give me your voter files and ICE will leave! It was never about gang members or drugs! Our government does nothing but lie to us! Stop voting for republicans! #Epstein

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s “care for others” led the intensive care nurse to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota. Federal agents shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis -- prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters. Pretti, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city. Pretti’s parents said that politicians were telling “sickening lies”, adding: “Please get the truth out about our son … He was a good man.”

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Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers, everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods —even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up. “I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE, I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says. The call goes quiet for a few seconds. “I’m being pulled over.” Dispatch chimes in: “Stay unmuted, turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call, everyone else please stay on mute.” We hear banging, then something shatters. “ICE just smashed their window,” our driver explains calmly, decelerating ahead of a red light. We are shocked, but this is a regular occurrence. Everyone on the call keeps their cool. We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them, boxing them in, smashing their car windows, pepper-spraying them, holding them at gun point, shooting out their tires, detaining them. Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters, the #Whipple building. Others have been driven to the other side of the city and thrown out of the vehicle, ❄️alone in the cold. Their cars have been left running in the road. The responders tell us all these stories in passing, quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done. Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too. ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away. A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone, they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg. But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises. They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets. They make ❤️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses. They make dinners for one another, they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks. They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road, an entire café full of people stood up as one, dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound. We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors. Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actions

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