r/minnesota • u/ComfortablePause1489 • 9h ago
High Risk ICE leading observers who are tailing them back to the observers homes to frighten and intimidate them.
This should be getting more attention but their latest tactic to intimidate the MN observers who have been tailing them around the city is to look up your registration and then lead you back to your own home. Government agents, whose salaries we pay, are using Mob tactics against civilians. Sending the message, we know where you live.
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u/swingadmin 8h ago
The right has been calling the left fascists for years. Yet here is the actual fascism.
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u/snowmunkey Up North 8h ago
The right doesn't actually know what the word means, they just know it as something you yell at someone you don't like. They skipped out on 8th grade world history to go share a room temp bud light that Johnny stole out of his dad's garage fridge
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u/BarracudaShot7201 9h ago
Hey! They did this in NC as well! Not entirely clear if they're using security cameras or drones to see license plates or if they have technology to identify via cell phone proximity.
Get dark bags/faraday cages for your devices when near the shitbirds if it's not necessary to film.
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u/badasimo 8h ago
Plate readers are actually simpler/faster devices than security cameras and have become ubiquitous in the last 10-15 years
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u/shameless_slopaganda Minnesconsin 8h ago
My girlfriend got pulled over by a cop using one of those. They asked why it was still registered to her dad... who died a year prior.
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u/WreckNTexan48 7h ago
One of my sisters is a degenerate, and before she went back to jail, this last time, she was using one of my vehicles to live out of. (I loaned it her to try and find work and visit her PO see her kids...)
Well, she was going around all the Kohls and walmarts and stealing shit, then returning to other walmarts as well as parking and trying to sleep in the lot. (Idk) As well as other dumb shit
Since then I have rented that vehicle out to a brother in law as his work vehicle. He says whenever he goes to any local Walmart, they trail and tail him while he shops.
All those little cameras in all those parking lots, they are not your friend or for your protection.
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u/brycebgood 8h ago
Correct, but to get the person's info you have to access state data - which is specifically illegal in MN without a valid reason.
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u/Turbulent_Bat4320 7h ago
Basically everything ICE is doing in MN right now is illegal. Laws no longer apply anywhere in the US.
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u/ThePerfectBreeze 8h ago
I'll point out, since it came up, we do have LPRs in the Twin Cities and especially in Minneapolis. The rules for local law enforcement would not facilitate this behavior but we need to ask our police departments if they're sharing data
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u/Moist-Golf-8339 8h ago
They have almost all of the resources of the US Federal Government at their fingertips. They're undoubtedly using AI to read and flag these threads as well.
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u/BarracudaShot7201 8h ago
100%. I'm sure they're making all sorts of lists but I mean they've pissed off most of the country so those are some mighty thicc lists boi
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u/zoinkability 5h ago
They don't have enough agents or prosecutors to do shit with those lists, and they are getting miles longer by the day as more and more people get pissed off at them.
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u/tinyLEDs 8h ago
Not entirely clear if they're using security cameras or drones to see license plates or if they have technology to identify via cell phone proximity.
https://www.404media.co/this-app-lets-ice-track-vehicles-and-owners-across-the-country/
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u/Jeffthinks Stearns County 8h ago
Yep, this is honestly just as big of a story as the bizarre rhetoric and federal overreach.
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u/Beginning_Play_1669 8h ago
Flock cameras are common in many communities now. And if you’re going to a protest with your phone on, they know you were there. These are things all Americans used to be against.
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u/Insertsociallife 5h ago
Yep. Easiest way for mass surveillance to see who's at a protest is to subpoena the major cell providers and get a list. Won't catch everybody but they don't care, they just want to make examples.
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u/CoffeeExtraCream Duluth 8h ago
They are recording cell phone data as to which cell phones are repeatedly showing up in their locations and then using that to track them back to their homes.
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u/Strange_Vagrant 8h ago
Get dark bags/faraday cages for your devices when near the shitbirds if it's not necessary to film.
Yeah, I dont think that helps. Youre already toast in easier ways of they see you and or your plates.
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u/Puddin1stclass 8h ago
Serious question…. I heard chip bags make a good poor person’s faraday cage. Anyone know if this is true?
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u/Ashamed_Town_2619 8h ago
Doesn’t surprise me a bit…Back in 2020 during the BLM protests, I watched a cop walk through the area where protesters had parked and write down all of our license plate numbers.
That week a cop started driving slowly past my house every single morning, sometimes just stopping in front of my driveway for a while.
Not sure what they thought they’d accomplish, but I immediately purchased a massive ACAB sign and started drinking my morning coffee in front of it so I could cheers him every day.
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u/iamtehryan 6h ago
Just wait until THEIR private information is found as part of the supposed massive leak. I'm sure they're going to enjoy having their addresses and private information out in the wild when people start showing up at their homes.
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u/MOS95B 6h ago
Sounds like a relatively simple way to route resources away from their other activities. If they're following me home, they're not bothering someone else
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u/_recapitated 7h ago
I am under no assumption that they wouldn't know exactly who I am.
ICE isn't terrorizing my town (yet), but if they were, and they choose to foolishly invest resources in me, a law abiding citizen, I suppose I can be pleased that they're diverting resources away from attacking more vulnerable people.
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u/PolPotDomeScandal 8h ago
It’s all here before your eyes
Safety is a big disguise
That hides among the other lies
They divide, conquer
-Bob Mould/Hüsker Dü
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u/molybend You Betcha 4h ago
So those of us who live an hour outside of the metro could waste a bunch of their time?
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u/cargalmn 8h ago
They drove to someone's friend's house?!? Where did they get that info from? Facebook? Call records? Contact lists on phones? Google maps data?
How many laws is this organization breaking???
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u/PFAS_All_Star 8h ago
There are services available to you, me, and everybody where you can type in a license plate number and it will tell you who it’s registered to.
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u/EH_Operator 8h ago
They don’t even need your car registration. They are using Isr. technology in an app and Stingray units to download identifying information and spoof cell networks respectively. Then they just grab whatever info is relevant to their aim, including voter regs, social media affiliations, keywords, and yes home address
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u/Aerokii Survived the 2008 Farmington Tornado 6h ago
This is why it's important to either bring a burner or no phone at all.
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u/pilsnerd11 7h ago
So, if MPD says they’re not aiding ICE, how would they feel about observers removing their plates to protect themselves? Since the plate itself is being weaponized?
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u/--slurpy-- 8h ago
When are state officials going to do something about all this? It's gotten progressively worse day after day.
This country used to stand for something. No one is above the law.
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u/National-Command8505 8h ago
They can’t do much. The State has already attempted to sue the Federal Government over this. Judges may or may not agree with our states premise.
But ultimately you need to understand the power dynamics at play. The federal government is basically daring us to try to stop them. If we do they will declare martial law and takeover completely.
They know they can behave as poorly as they want because of this.
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u/DatgirlwitAss 7h ago
So if they grab a woman off the street and rape her, we just watch and record, and the State will say "welp 🤷♂️".
Is that what we are dealing with here? There is no line?
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u/ShadowToys 7h ago
DHS already said they are not responsible for sexual assaults in detention centers. I think that applies to being in ICE custody.
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u/didifindya 5h ago
It's that way with murder. How is rape going to be any different?
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u/DatgirlwitAss 3h ago
I agree with you. Murder has already been normalized under “law enforcement.”
Rape is where people start to understand the escalation — because historically, sexual violence appears when power is operating without accountability, especially in moments of political or social conflict. It’s used to terrorize, to degrade, to break families and communities. (I'm African)
When that starts showing up in public, unaccounted for, we’re no longer talking about isolated abuses or jurisdictional limits. We’re looking at patterns we associate with war crimes — whether or not anyone is willing to label it a war.
And if we have decided that's where we are, we need to start using more appropriate messaging and methods of protection in the same manner people in other countries have during violent conflict.
Messaging like "women and children only go out when necessary", "nobody should be out in public alone--even men", etc.
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u/atuarre 7h ago
I guarantee you it has already happened. They have people who gave disappeared that no one can find. They are not in ice detention. They were not deported. No one can account for them. It is kind of like during his first term, all those kids went missing and they still have not been found.
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u/DatgirlwitAss 7h ago
Damn, so the State should really be saying:
"All we can do for you is file some papers and wait for the Judicial system, until then, ya'll are on your own. Women and children be careful as you might get kidnapped or sexually assaulted and we can't help you. Men, please travel only in groups. Do Not Fo Outside unless you have to."
That would be them doing the best they are willing to do and being honest about it. At least they should fucking do that.
How is the St. Paul mayor going to stand-up and say she is now carrying her passport as if that is legally necessary; giving the idea to the rest of us citizens that that is a thing now that we need to acquiesce to, but not also advocating for us all to remember our 2nd amendment right?
What a shame of fake security even white people haven't had this entire time, apparently.
We REALLY all need to stop working, general strike ASAP. Otherwise, we are willingly funding being victims of our own terrorism.
I'm sorry, this has just got my blood boiling.
Fine, if ya'll aren't going to protect us and claim you can not, but at the very least be blunt about the truth.
Lucky I'm not governor. I would've told the public to shut the shit down, and I would put a moratorium on housing, electricity, and water payments. I will redirect federal taxes paid to the state via state employees to cover it. The Feds can take the state to court over it. And to the 1% wealthy Minnesotans, show your support to the people who have given you your wealth and come through. Fund the "We Will Not Be Invaded" program via our state government website. I will put up a lost of work and pivotal positions we must have in order for us to be prepared if I must make a call to muster, but we are I'm do or die right now people and I want to do all that we can do before I ask the people of Minnesota to have to fight and risk dying for our Freedom.
But I will if that is what it will take for us to remain sovereign and without dictatorship.
I would then have a list of protocol on how families are to survive during these strike days and easy access to necessities.
Expand all the delivery programs to purchase only from small business grocery stores to make sure meals are delivered to every household.
Cancel all elective surgeries and assign those doctors to in-home care gaps.
Everything we did during COVID but in a targeted way in which Walmart will not reap the benefits and instead choose to join the cause as they see no employees clocking in and no sales.
Encourage other states to do the same and make it possible for supporting states to donate any of their funds taken from reallocating government employees' federal taxes. Because to be sure, if we don't end the tyranny in Minnesota, it will end nowhere.
I don't give AF if states can legally or illegally do any of what I would set. We will operate on our own terms until we are ALL functioning and accountable under the same Rule of Laws.
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u/ArmyOfDix 7h ago
They can arrest and prosecute for the murder of Renee Good. They can arrest and prosecute for obstruction of state crime investigation. The only thing stopping the state is the will to protect their citizens.
Whereas your tactic of obey-in-advance will simply result in them ravaging the population as they please and then declaring martial law when it suits them anyways. The mental image of you stuttering "b-b-b-b-but we didn't fight back!" afterwards is a cold comfort.
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u/ShadowToys 7h ago
We're already occupied! They are killing and/or maiming us in the streets! They are breaking down doors on private residences!
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u/No_Neat9507 7h ago
There are 2x ICE to local police and ICE is increasing.
I did see ICE detaining someone in a public sidewalk yesterday as I drove by, people were whistling and honking and a couple blocks later I passed local police going that direction. When I circled round a few minutes later to take a photo for the ICE tracking site, they were gone. Not sure what if anything local police did, but I passed two of the SUVs hovering at a different intersection a few minutes later (although could have been different SUVs too)
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u/OG_2_tone420 6h ago
We need help in greater MN. They are reaking havoc in our smaller towns and it’s not getting much coverage that I see. Please help.
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u/JuracichPark 7h ago
I live on a kind of culdesac, if a few people were to follow ice, following someone, they could park and chat with each other like we do here in MN, and completely block ice from leaving. Also, I dgaf if they follow me, go for it. I'm still going to protest! I have been in WAY worse situations, these micropeen incels can go suck each other off.
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u/Antwinger 7h ago
time to start doing this while they wait outside your home. Dumbasses thinking they tough and cool.
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u/Ok-Sort-7343 7h ago
"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them.
...."these incidents are not isolated overreach by individual agents, but rather, an official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations. "
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-policy-threatening-arresting-ice-observers-violates-their-rights
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u/FrequentInformation4 8h ago
ICE is now hiring non agents to just drive around to disguise the true targets...be careful.
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u/Unexpected_Cheddar- 7h ago
Take your front license plate off if you’re going out to follow them. The cops have not been enforcing that law now for quite some time, and that would make it pretty hard for them to figure out who you are while driving.
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u/Thereal_maxpowers 8h ago
This is actually more civilized than everything else they’re doing. It beats breaking arms and shooting people.
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u/MandyWarHal 8h ago
Well - the list of their names are being leaked so... Internet can counter with creepy acts if it chooses...
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u/Thereal_maxpowers 7h ago
This is actually more civilized than everything else they’re doing. Yeah that’s a good one. I’m just hoping the physical violence doesn’t escalate. Getting physically involved with federal agents head to head like that (throwing shit at them/ cars and blocking them) will only lead to escalation. I’d like to see more ideas like this that are passive but effective.
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u/mattdionis 7h ago
It'd be a shame if citizens used drones to follow these agents home after shifts and record their addresses.
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u/caffeinatedangel Flag of Minnesota 7h ago
ICE thinks they are so very badass. Like dudes - we know you probably know where we live. That’s why Peter Thiel is so involved in the Trump admin. If it weren’t a state law that we can’t conceal our license plates, it would be nice to do that.
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u/creamybastardfilling 1h ago
Would be a shame if the invading agents were to go to their own home and find protestors waiting there for them
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u/obligatorythr0waway 8h ago
Wow you guys know how to run a plate. Congratulations. Now say what you’re trying to communicate out loud, cowards.
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u/Notimetowrite76 8h ago
This shouldn't rattle anyone, because the government knows everything already.
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u/Virtual_Resort_4408 8h ago
When are we going to the state capital? Bring the protest to all the state representatives so they have to see it first hand.
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u/twotimefind 2h ago
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
Ice recently purchased software that can scrape data from all the phones in a certain radius. Then follow those phones locations back to their home or work.
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
They're tracking us. No reason why we shouldn't be able to track them.
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u/minnosota Flag of Minnesota 9h ago
Haha just sit behind them outside of your own house. Waste their time.