“Independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon were arrested by federal agents in connection with their role in documenting an anti-ICE demonstration in a St. Paul church during a service on Jan. 18,” the Minnesota Star Tribune reports. “Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X that the arrests of Fort and Lemon were at her direction. Bondi said she also ordered the arrests of politician and Black Lives Matter-Minnesota co-founder Trahern Crews and DFL activist and former state House staffer Jamael Lundy,the intergovernmental affairs manager for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. His wife is St. Paul City Council Member Anika Bowie.”
ICE has taken two more Minnesota children into custody along with their mother, MPR News reports. “The children are from the same Columbia Heights elementary school as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detainment by ICE last week gripped the Twin Cities and the nation as images of the small boy flanked by agents in his winter hat circulated online. … Columbia Heights school officials said Thursday’s detention happened after agents apprehended the children’s mother during her court appointment earlier that day.”
“The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it had opened a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers,” reports KARE11. … Blanche confirmed the civil rights investigation was independent from the internal review being conducted by the Department of Homeland Security.”
Michael Knox, who runs a small fast-casual chicken restaurant in Richfield, is working up to 16-hour shifts to protect his staff. Business Insider has an as-told-to essay on Knox and how his business is trying to keep people safe.
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