The Signal username “peanutbutterjelly” blended in among the silly monikers used by fellow members of Minneapolis chats dedicated to protesting immigration agents during the government’s aggressive winter deportation campaign. She attended an “upstander” training and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement planning meetings and regularly messaged with others doing the same.
“…v interested in the financial organizing piece (I like numbers and data) & marrying that together with propaganda so would love to work on both sides of these groups!!” she messaged a group of activists in a chat called “art/money/comms club.”
But peanutbutterjelly wasn’t interested in advancing the group’s aims. She was actually undercover agent 9843, a Department of Homeland Security officer ingratiating herself into the world of anti-ICE activists, looking for evidence of crimes…