Protesters blare noise to prevent ICE agents from sleeping at Minnesota hotel

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-hotel-protests-minnesota/

Protesters blare noise to prevent ICE agents from sleeping at Minnesota hotel

David Edwards
December 12, 2025 11:53AM ET

Protesters in Minnesota tracked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to an Edina hotel, where they engaged in loud demonstrations to make sleeping uncomfortable.

They're terrorizing our neighbors by day and retreats in their cushy hotel rooms at night!" one protester shouted on Thursday night amid drums and loud music outside a Hilton hotel.

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"YES! My People in Minnesota found the ICE Nazis hotel….no sleep for ICE Nazis ✊🏾!" Lucas Sanders commented on X.

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(Wonder what other hotel guests are thinking? Checking out en masse?)

[Ocelot II]

1. Won't keeping those assholes awake all night make them crabbier and meaner than ever?

[lastlib]

2. Sleep deprivation can cause many things....

stroke, angina......

US forces got Manuel Noriega to surrender by playing hard rock music at high volume 24 hrs a day for several days.

I highly recommend playing Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" outside their rooms nonstop for a few nights, and see whuthappins.

[The Madcap]

6. How about some Yoko Ono???

Cranked to 11!!!

[ret5hd]

14. Yoko??? amateur hour...

try some Diamanda Galas:
(you can also use this to clear the house of party guests that have stayed too long)

[cbabe]

3. Naps. Sleepy boys do less harm.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Gawd, I hope so

May consternation follow them to the grave

[MichMan]

5. "Wonder what other hotel guests are thinking? Checking out en masse?"

Sucks to be them I guess. Just find another room somewhere else at midnight and pay twice.

[Sneederbunk]

7. The Manuel Noriega treatment.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. Ha ha..they did that in California

[OC375]

9. Earbuds; Problem Solved

Piss others off with no real impact to the target. Great intent, horrible execution.

[Martin68]

13. Earbuds or not, they are aware of the resistance and they feel it. I totally approve.

[mysteryowl]

10. The Edina suburb is high-end.

A hotel there would be expensive.

They spare no expense for the kidnappers' comfort.

[aeromanKC]

11. Boycott all establishments and hotels that cater to ICE Nazi terrorist kidnappers!!

[Martin68]

12. I love it. The Resistance is strong!

[jfz9580m]

15. I am dealing with noise pollution day in and day out

From men on their bikes and other assholes.
This isn’t the kind of protest I support (as noise affects everyone around). Not just target. You can feel it earbuds or not.

I really hate the assholes who are doing this on my street and file complaints with the police against them. Here in my city in the global south, the police are pretty decent and not fascistic, whereas these bullying thugs on my street are assholes.

There are better ways to protest. This just adds to the accelerating chaos and doesn’t accomplish anything.

I am sympathetic to these guys. But I have mixed feelings about these strategies.

I am not very Karen. So I don’t like telling people what to do, especially if it is genuinely some form of activism however warped. Which I am not sure it is ..at least not the stuff I see here. This I am guessing is some sort of sleazy and harassing tech thing.

But it’s definitely a more young lefty male thing I think, these ear splitting and other rambunctious strategies. How about a strategy that doesn’t burst my ear drums so I can actually help? And by extension your (largely female, non Karen) allies? An odd tension there between more chaotic and more orderly people with the same goals and split along gender lines even if not inimically.

The noise pollution in my neck of the woods has goaded me into drafting a long post for activist HQ to start to legally pushback against the foul Panopticon the creeps are building. But that’s not a defense of noise pollution as a strategy dammit!

That’s just a terrible idea…Like a lefty group or two will do this and then the right wing creeps will use it as an excuse to do the same things times a 100. It’s just a given that some strategies work better for the right. This is one of them imo. Kayfabe, chaos, confusion, violence, grift, deception, lies, purity tests, disorder of the worst types, self serving shit in general..these are strategies that the right is better at because of a basic asymmetry. Nazi order is the only kind of order they support and it works with chaos and confusion. Anything but egalitarian, democratic order and innocuous disorder.

Interesting in a way..where this could be headed in a positive sense.