Border Patrol smashed a car window and carried him away by his arms and feet from a Speedway gas station while conducting immigration enforcement as part of their surge in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Agents fired sting balls at activists, who blew whistles in warning.
One of the apparent activists was taken to the ground and arrested while yelling “I’m not resisting!”
He was also carried away by his arms and feet.
“Stay back!” yelled the federal agents, several wielding less-lethal weapons. “Back up!”
Agents approached a vehicle outside the gas station apparently waiting and told them “move!”
They pointed a less-lethal weapon at the windshield and counted. The driver then drove along.
“Hurry up!” the agents yelled, then getting into their own unmarked cars.
All throughout Minneapolis and St Paul today, agents were swarmed with protesters in vehicle and on foot, chasing them to document their actions and use whistles and car horns to warn locals of their presence.
Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino led his forces into a St Paul Target, apparently to use the bathroom.
“Get the f*** out of here!” a man in Target yelled at them. “Nobody f***ing wants you here!”
“Stay back,” an agent said, pointing his less-lethal weapon at a man in the store’s entrance as he exited.
“Get their license plates!” an activist yelled as agents returned to their vehicles in the Target parking lot.
Protests outside federal building
Federal agents fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters Sunday night outside the Whibble federal building, where ICE detainees are being held in Minneapolis.
Earlier, agents approached the activists as they entered the street, firing a barrage of sting balls to push them back.
Protesters occasionally attempted to stop traffic into and out of the facility and were met with force by Federal Protective Service, ICE, and CBP.
Agents approached the crowd outside what is now an ICE facility in Minneapolis in a line and made two targeted arrests.
“Get back!” they yelled, pointing pepper spray canisters at them.
“Shame!” the crowd chanted.
On two separate occasions, conflicts between conservative content creators Nick Shirley and Cam Higby and the anti-ICE protester crowd boiled over into the street, prompting federal agents to fire riot munitions to push the scene back.
An arrestee exited the building Sunday night after what she described as a seven-hour detention.
She says she was arrested and accused of “obstruction” while following immigration agents today, but insists “there was no one in front of them, they could have kept going.”
