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Today, the Department of Homeland Security sent Homeland Security Investigations agents to Minnesota, who conducted 12 arrests of activists whom they’re alleging are “Anti-ICE Rioters” that are “Affiliated with Antifa.” After our last Daily Memo, there has been another ICE-involved shooting, ICE deported a hunger strike organizer from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, and the death of Daphy Michel was ruled a homicide. Today is June 16, and it is day 376 of the ICE Siege in Los Angeles.
In Minnesota, the Department of Homeland Security arrested 12 individuals and charged 15, all with “conspiracy to impede or injure an officer.” Some of the evidence that DHS laid out included kicking a car and leaving a dent, wearing a shirt that says “I am ANTIFA,” and the use of a “soft blockade,” by wielding shields made of plastic, wood, and metal, which were used by protestors to protect themselves and others against pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets, which in the past here in Los Angeles have taken the eyes of people in the crowd…