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Prairie Gates

(7,325 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 12:01 AM Tuesday

New ICE tactic (read: lie) in Minnesota: everyone they're supposedly after is a "sex offender"

I've seen at least four or five videos taken yesterday or today in which an ICE agent says "You know who we're here for? A sex offender! Why are you protecting a sex offender? Do you know who you're defending?"

These were videos of different ICE agents engaging a member of the public who is recording them / citizen observers. They appear to be in completely different locations and at different times.

Conclusion: This is obviously a talking point that these shitheads have been given to use with people questioning them. In one ase, the ICE agent wanted to arrest the observer for using a whistle! When she challenged him, he went into the whole "You're protecting a sex offender" bit. Noem was emphasizing sex offenders on the talkies this weekend as well.

In at least two videos, the person recorded turned it around on them: Why don't you go arrest your President, then.

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New ICE tactic (read: lie) in Minnesota: everyone they're supposedly after is a "sex offender" (Original Post) Prairie Gates Tuesday OP
The only response: pfitz59 Tuesday #1
They better Go to the WHITE HOUSE and arrest the SEX OFFENDER IN CHIEF!!!! Jack Valentino Tuesday #2
Indeed. They're taking orders from one. unblock Tuesday #3
To counter the Ford employee lame54 Tuesday #4
Sex Criminal, Murderer, Huckster, Traitor, Constitutional Law Violator, International Law Violator..... BurnDoubt Tuesday #5
Standard Nazi tactic: accuse your opponents of your own crimes. Fozzledick Tuesday #6
They claimed 2 sex offenders lived at this house where they bashed IcyPeas Tuesday #7
Projection malaise Tuesday #8

BurnDoubt

(1,549 posts)
5. Sex Criminal, Murderer, Huckster, Traitor, Constitutional Law Violator, International Law Violator.....
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:58 AM
Tuesday

Quite the Resume.
Lock Him Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IcyPeas

(24,967 posts)
7. They claimed 2 sex offenders lived at this house where they bashed
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 08:15 AM
Tuesday

down the door and detained the Hmong man who was only wearing shorts.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

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