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Community volunteers across Minnesota have launched neighbourhood patrols and rapid-response networks as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations continue in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Residents say they are monitoring streets, tracking ICE vehicles, and alerting neighbours in real time using encrypted messaging apps to prevent sudden detentions and document federal agent activity. Volunteers claim their presence helps deter violence and protect constitutional rights, especially after recent high-profile incidents involving ICE. Despite fear, arrests, and escalating tensions, community members say they remain determined to stand guard for one another as immigration enforcement intensifies.
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00:00like I'll read the chat to you out loud and then that there's another person
00:16another neighbor of ours who's a just driving around my neighborhood kind of
00:23picking an area to just keep an eye on looking out for any ice or customs and
00:33border patrol vehicles that might be passing through the neighborhood or any
00:41ice agents or border patrol agents that are getting out of their cars
00:53and then I'm on a signal chat with people in my neighborhood here and we have a
01:07voice call on the signal chat and if any of us see something we can just unmute
01:12ourselves and let people know what we're seeing you know where they are what
01:16direction they're heading in and then there's people all over the
01:23neighborhood who are following that signal chat and if they see a message
01:29that ice is you know passing through their block or getting out of their cars
01:34on on their block or the next block over they're ready to run out and you know
01:38videotape do constitutional observing blow whistles but let neighbors know that ice
01:45is on the block and it's not safe to come outside
01:51what's your name what's your name what is your name Mohammed Mohammed
01:57last name
02:05Azimov
02:06Azimov
02:07Azimov
02:08Azimov
02:09Azimov
02:10Azimov
02:11Azimov
02:12Azimov
02:13Azimov
02:14is that family that we can provide?
02:15yeah, you can keep it
02:16want to close my friend
02:17Yeah, you'd rather keep us that way you can have a police upon a contract with somebody
02:20all right,
02:21can you say your name again?
02:21yeah, I've got it
02:23okay
02:24yeah
02:25Yeah, I'd rather keep us that way you can have at least a point of contact with somebody,
02:33all right?
02:34Can you say your name again, sir?
02:35Yeah, I got it.
02:36Okay.
02:37We're just sharing neighbors that wanting our neighbors to be harassed.
02:41I mean, but they've been attacking us, so we're going to have them on this.
02:43Actually, you're a fucking murderer.
02:44Can you see any of us with guns out?
02:46Yeah.
02:47We don't want you here.
02:48That's for my protection.
02:49You can change your mind.
02:50You don't have to do that.
02:51We'll approve us against a good phone room.
02:53Just in case.
02:54Just in case.
02:55I'd rather have it and not need it.
02:57Y'all need to quit stalking our neighbors.
02:59Why do you guys have mass in no neighbors?
03:01We're terrorizing our community.
03:02You're a bunch of fucking human traffickers.
03:04Y'all can just stop doing this.
03:06Is this fair?
03:07We got your back, buddy.
03:08I know this is terrifying.
03:09We got you.
03:10I know this is terrifying.
03:12You do not have to talk to them.
03:14Talk to them without your lawyer.
03:16You have a constitutional right.
03:17Get out of his face with that.
03:18Come on.
03:19Have some fucking decency.
03:20Have some decency, girl.
03:22Gross.
03:23You back up.
03:25Shit.
03:26You guys are full of shit.
03:27Y'all good?
03:28The whole world hates you.
03:29Love you.
03:30That's their phone.
03:31Just smashed out both windows.
03:33I don't think so.
03:34Did they take a tease?
03:35Sam, get on call.
03:36Just keep the bad guys out.
03:37Yeah.
03:38I...
03:39Sweet.
03:40She was sweet.
03:41She was sweet.
03:42She was sweet.
03:43She was sweet.
03:44Baby.
03:45She was sweet.
03:46She was sweet.
03:47Baby.
03:48When we were out, we got a, an alert that there was a, an alert that there was a lot of
03:52two, um, ice vehicles that were cornering, um, an observer.
03:55And it just sprayed pepper spray onto their car.
03:58Um, very close to where we were.
03:59Um, very close to where we were.
04:00We were only about three minutes away.
04:01So we decided to turn our eyes on it.
04:02They just ruined the verb.
04:04The difference is, you know, the difference is, we can get a little bit of a gun in this
04:09one.
04:10Just let the true eyes out.
04:11Yeah.
04:12I.
04:13It's like, wait, wait, wait.
04:14Sweet.
04:15Sweet.
04:16Sweet.
04:17Sweet.
04:18Sweet.
04:19Sweet, sweet, sweet baby.
04:20When we were out, we got an alert that there were two ice vehicles that were cornering,
04:21um, an observer, and it just sprayed pepper spray onto their car.
04:25Um, very close to where we were.
04:27We were only about three minutes away, so we decided to drive to that location to have extra eyes on the scene.
04:37We know that when there's more people around, federal agents are less likely to escalate to violence,
04:46or if there's more people that are filming them, they're less likely to violate constitutional rights,
04:53or at least that's, you know, kind of the, that's the hope, right?
04:59I just started noticing, like, kind of in the aftermath of COVID, that people just weren't putting front lights.
05:05Do you get a picture?
05:07Yeah, but we can't really make it up.
05:10Dang it.
05:11It was jarring, and it really hit home that these ICE agents are dangerous.
05:28They are prone to violence.
05:31They are under-trained, and they're angry.
05:35And so, while I had known that it was serious before, Renee Good's killing made it that much more serious.
05:46And to me, just, like, it upped the stakes, so it made it feel even more important that we had more eyes on these people.
06:05The degree of, like, there's just, there's no professionalism with ICE.
06:17We got in the car, and I felt like I was in elementary school or junior high being made fun of by bullies.
06:26Um, they were, like, insulting me, just belittling me, trying to make me feel worthless.
06:38Um, I, you know, I'm sure cops are, you know, capable of doing such things, too.
06:44I know that they are, but, um, this was just a level of, like, unprofessionalism, not like I've ever seen.
06:56Maybe we could go into the bus lane and see that license plate.
07:02The truck?
07:03Yeah.
07:05They're going into the drive-thru.
07:08Yeah, just get behind them, sweetie.
07:13Let me just get the plate. I don't want to go into the...
07:16What we're seeing in Minneapolis is we're seeing communities that are standing up, and they're saying,
07:21hell no, we won't, um, we're not, we're not going to do that.
07:27And so, you know, how much we can take, I mean, we're in an impossible situation right now.
07:36We are, even with all of the work that we are putting in,
07:40people are being ripped from their homes and their families still.
07:44Our neighbors have, my neighbor has been killed.
07:49Um, you know, it's like, we, we, we can't, this is totally unsustainable.
07:56We can't take more of it.
07:58And at the same time, like, we're not going to back down.
08:03We're going to keep standing up for each other and keep doing what we need to do to protect each other.
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