Protesters have demonstrated in cities across Minnesota following the arrest of a 27-year-old St. Paul woman during a narcotics raid in south Minneapolis.
Isabel Lopez made her first court appearance on Tuesday, facing four charges for physically assaulting federal agents and officers. She was arrested as search warrants related to narcotics, money laundering, and human trafficking were being carried out in south Minneapolis on June 3.
As the raid of Las Cuatro Milpas was carried out, protestors gathered under the assumption that an ICE deportation operation was underway. Instead, the criminal complaint charging Lopez reveals that the raid was one of eight carried out in the metro related to the drugs, money laundering and human trafficking. The operation yielded the seizure of 900 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of $22-$25 million at a storage unit in Burnsville.
Since Lopez’s arrest, additional footage from the protest was released by independent journalist Georgia Fort, and it shows Lopez being held down and pushed to the ground by law enforcement.…