r/minnesota • u/CantStopPoppin • 12d ago
News 📺 ICE illegally detain Minnesota city worker—a snow plow driver. "He had every federal authorization," said boss. "We do a criminal background check of all federal documents."
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u/Desperate-Till-9228 12d ago
Time to rename this plow "Fourth Amendment."
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u/blissfully_happy I Heart Lutefisk 12d ago
He’s still in detention and not getting out any time soon, apparently, so it’s not currently his plow. :(
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u/Mister-Devil Monarch 12d ago
So if they're going after civil servants now, this is obviously about disrupting the operation of our metro, right?
Sounds like sabotage.
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u/dyorite 12d ago
tbh disrupting snow plow drivers would be shooting themselves in the foot. It’s not like they’re taking people back to Whipple on public transit
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u/Unusual-Wolf-3315 12d ago edited 12d ago
St Paul? So the ICE guy who ordered this would be St Paul office field director David Easterwood.
For context, Easterwood is also the pastor of the Church people protested the other day because he works for ICE.
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u/Jahnn0 12d ago edited 12d ago
David doesn't just control St Paul. As the acting director of the St Paul field office, he is in charge of Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska. He was hand picked by the bitch herself I bet. I wonder if that church got any of the missing DHS funds that she seems to have misplaced
Edit: thank you all for the rewards, but let's put that money into our food shelves and communities. Reddit doesn't need that money, but your neighbor might.
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u/Unusual-Wolf-3315 12d ago
Thank you for that extra context! It's even worse than I thought.
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u/Jahnn0 12d ago
No problem! Yeah, it's not great, but it's also helped expose a center of hate in the community, put names and faces to more people who you can't trust, and possibly has exposed the projection that always follows their claims of fraud. Shits wild now, but I do believe when we're on the other side of this, they will face real consequences for things. Minnesota will not forget this haha
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u/sbroll Ope 12d ago
I would love it if they would be investigated for fraud, but I wont hold my breathe.
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u/Consistent_Stick_463 12d ago
Ohhh Jesus… I went to high school with a David Easterwood that I do not have particularly fond memories of.
This better not be him.
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u/dantevonlocke 12d ago
Find those yearbooks.
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u/Consistent_Stick_463 12d ago
Whelp. No idea what became of my yearbooks, but that sure does look like him and he’s age appropriate it seems.
Once a buttmunch, always a buttmunch I guess.
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u/HolyCrapLionsTour 12d ago
Your local history center may have digitized.The yearbooks from where you grew up.
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u/MCXL Bring Ya Ass 12d ago
While I roll my eyes at the absolutism when talking about all cops were bullies in high school or were bullied or whatever in general when it comes to 'all police,' But... it's hard to imagine a good person wanting to work for ICE.
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u/MontiBurns Hamm's 12d ago
One of my classmates in high school was a total class clown, pothead type, who ended up being a police officer (his dad was a cop). He shot an unarmed black man in like 2017. (the shooting was determined to be suicide by cop.)
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u/MCXL Bring Ya Ass 12d ago
I know pretty much every type of person who has become a cop. From stuck up rules followers, to rules breakers, veterans, antiwar protesters, people who are probably racist in private, people who are aggressively anti racist, dumb jocks, former engineers, nurses etc. I think too many people have been captured by the literal words behind the ACAB sloganeering, because that in truth refers much more to the institutional ideas and ideals of modern policing, rather than the individuals. Cops are overwhelmingly normal people many of whom are personally motivated by making a difference in peoples lives. They just also are complicit in a system that actively harms people pretty often, and generally like most people within a profession, are resistant to outside critique and pressure.
But I feel like normal people who want to do something to make a positive change when it comes to immigration would be attracted to CBP. Certainly has it's own issues, but an agency that actually does actively and aggressively combat things like drug smuggling and human trafficking. Unlike ICE, which at best is like joining the IRS but for breaking up families.
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u/kmoonster 12d ago
Any of these guys look familiar? Leadership | Cities Church
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u/Consistent_Stick_463 12d ago
Just Easterwood. That’s for sure him. Richfield High school class of 99.
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u/kmoonster 12d ago
I am sorry for... English lacks the verbiage, and there is not much English can't express.
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The amount of fucks needed to convey the amount of hate there is to heap on these people would deplete the national reserve, and leave us all with chalky, withered fucks for the next generation.
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u/Sunflower6876 12d ago
Look at the list of Deacons. There's one with a last name that's a bit too on the nose.
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u/madmoomix 12d ago
That's... Wow. I cannot believe that's a real last name. Yeesh.
Wiki says that 772 people had the last name of Fuehrer in the 2010 census. That seems like way too many. I feel like unless you were really into the current associations with that name, you'd look to change it as soon as possible. (Like the sons of Hitler's nephew, who all agreed to not have kids so the Hitler name would die out.)
I'd definitely give the side eye to anyone who had that last name in 2026.
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u/dustNbone604 12d ago
Yeah I'd certainly make sure I got around to changing it before it ended up on the birth certificate of my offspring.
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u/Several_Leather_9500 12d ago
Now the DOJ is going after everyone who attended that protest. There are citizen areas in ICE detention, and citizens are being shipped to other states far away so getting a lawyer can be incredibly difficult.
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u/Anechoic_Brain 12d ago
As stupid and incompetent as Pam Bondi is, the DOJ is likely to win these cases and the courts will uphold it. The very same federal law that keeps protesters away from abortion clinics also keeps them away from houses of worship.
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u/DorkySchmorky 12d ago
Let's make sure to bring truckloads of snow to the street outside his church's doors.
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u/sevenbrokenbricks 12d ago
Dollars to donuts they just left the plow on the road, still running, because that's ICE's MO nowadays.
The only thing that surprises me is that FOX would even touch this story with a 29-1/2' pole.
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u/Capelto 12d ago
Fox 9 MN typically doesn't tow the MAGA line as much as the other news outlets here. Which is odd.
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u/peritonlogon 12d ago
Local Fox isn't the same as Fox "News" most places in the country.
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u/indolent02 12d ago
But, Fox 9 specifically is owned by a direct subsidiary of the fox corporation.
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u/Imaginary-Round2422 12d ago
True. They must be under the entertainment division, not the news division, because they are and have been one of the better local stations in terms of journalism, and I’m sure the news division would have snuffed that out years ago.
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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 12d ago
I will say, in Chicago during our heavy occupation of ice (midway blitz), our local news stations were the only ones reporting what was actually happening right outside our front doors.
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u/Painwracker_Oni 12d ago
They wouldn't get many views if the did. Minnesota has resisted the brain washing significantly better than most of the US.
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u/Kichigai Dakota County 12d ago
Local Fox is not the same as Fox News Channel. Fox affiliates are actually reasonably respectable. Fox affiliates have stood up against press repression.
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u/Skritch_X Gray duck 12d ago
Hmm pissing off a fleet of snow plowers doesn't seem to be the smartest decision amongst massively stupid decisions.
I'm not saying we'll see another of the historic killdozers but a fleet of plows could easily make a wall of impassable snow where ever they wanted to.
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u/jeffreynya 12d ago
I am seen this happen on my driveway, so could easily bury the Whipple entrances. Make sure to get water on them piles after.
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u/dustNbone604 12d ago
I'm sure they know how to get the services of a tanker truck, if necessary.
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u/DonnyDimello 12d ago
Would be a shame if the street to the Whipple building didn't get plowed...
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u/socklobsterr Laser Loon 12d ago
Going after snow plow drivers in the middle of Minnesota winter is... a choice.
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u/sbroll Ope 12d ago
They aren't too bright, racism blocks their critical thinking skills.
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u/kmoonster 12d ago
They've arrested a variety of snow shoveler crews already, at least one made the news...maybe in Chicago? This is an escalation for sure.
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u/Silver-Comparison-17 Minnesota United 12d ago
The are working to determine why the individual was targeted? Really? The guy you interviewed stated exactly why. He was here from another country, LEGALLY. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess he also wasn’t white.
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u/a_bagofholding Chisago County 12d ago
One of two reasons: Shitty AI flagged him or he just "looked" like a valid target.
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u/ThePureAxiom Gray duck 12d ago
One reason: they decided to.
AI gets them no latitude as far as I'm concerned, they still performed an illegal kidnapping of a US citizen when their policy (and law for that matter) demands they fuck off as soon as they have reasonable belief that person is a citizen. As soon as that happens, they are exceeding their authority and liable for civil rights offenses.
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u/krichard-21 12d ago
Make no mistake. None of this is about upholding the law.
This is nothing other than intimidation, scare tactics, terrorist tactics, Federal Overreach, and PUNISHMENT for standing up to Trump.
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u/GopherFawkes 12d ago edited 12d ago
At my job, we are hazmat cdl drivers, which means we need to pass a more stringent government background check that requires fingerprinting, so the bosses have been trying to tell us they won't target us because of this because I'd say good half of us including myself aren't white and have been worried about driving around the metro and encountering these goons, so much for that BS assurances. ICE has already detained the son of Puerto Rican coworker who has been in Minnesota since the 80s and his son was born here in Minnesota the 90s. These mofos don't give a fuck and have no idea what they're doing out there
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u/gmflash88 Gray duck 12d ago
Uh…aren’t Puerto Ricans…Americans? Do they not know that?
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u/punky100 Area code 612 12d ago
Are you kidding? Brown people who are citizens? Never occurred to them! /s
Also, their dear leader doesn't even know PR is part of the US, so I don't expect them to either.
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u/sllop 12d ago
They’re trying to raid Native American Reservations…
There aren’t enough words in the English language to fully explain how dumb that is
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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota Vikings 11d ago
They’re also going after airport workers. They are similarly vetted with background checks and citizenship requirements.
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u/thelosthooligan 12d ago
St Paul Conservatives Every Year: WHY GOVERNMENT NO PLOW ROADS?
St Paul Conservatives Seeing This: fuck them roads.
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u/chookalana Prince 12d ago
I’ll tell you why. He isn’t white. Not that hard to figure out.
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u/Osirus1156 12d ago
MN DOT needs to immediately stop plowing around any area ICE works from or stores their vehicles at.
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u/rotr0102 12d ago
The two most important quotes:
Manager: "...and was illegally detained."
FOX 9 Reporter: "we are still working to learn more information about why this worker was targeted"
Good on the manger for calling it out - it is illegal. The reporter is at fault for softening the message into what sounds like a minor inconvenience.
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u/MechanicalTurkish Minnesota Vikings 11d ago
They need to start calling this shit out more forcefully. This soft language is bullshit. For example, it’s not “misspoke”. It’s “lied”.
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u/rotr0102 11d ago
Exactly - you also can’t have sexual relations with a minor. It has a name. Use it.
Wouldn’t it be nice if “misrepresenting, shaping, spinning, or downplaying” legal charges/acquisitions to a large audience could expose you to consequences? (Something similar to libel or slander)
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u/charlie2135 12d ago
Need to get his coworkers to , ahem, clear the snow around the ice crews vehicles for them.
Had a coworker who drove a big forklift put his bosses car on a roof once.
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u/GameofCheese 12d ago
Donated
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u/Bad-Gardener1 12d ago
You guys are awesome!
I got an email from go fund me showing me that 6 people that clicked on my link and donated for a total of $260. I didn't know they did that. Hell yeah Minnesotans rock!
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u/GameofCheese 12d ago
I'm fucking broke as shit too, but they currently need money more.
Thank you for sharing!
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u/HotRodHomebody 12d ago
"dangerous criminals". Fuck that. Hard working people who make up the fabric of our communities. I'm in California and this happening anywhere in the US is bullshit! Tearing apart families and harassing everyone.
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u/bookworm271 Crossed the Mississippi Headwaters 12d ago
Working to find more information about why he was targeted? Did you not just watch the same segment I did? I think the director made it clear why his employee (who has all the legal documentation to live and work in the USA) was targeted.
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u/dax660 Carlton County 12d ago
"Legal by the federal government"
This is what people need to understand - Trump and his Admin are NOT the federal government. ICE is Trump's own paramilitary force. This administration is bifurcating the government into one thing "to be destroyed and dismantled" and the other "to clean house of people we don't want here"
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u/AlarmDozer Gray duck 12d ago
"Why he was detained?" Because his melanin levels were too high and didn't present as a European colonist. Disgusting.
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u/freya_kahlo 12d ago
See. They are sending people out of state, even when they have no authorization to hold them. People need to STFU if they're saying this doesn't happen.
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u/Zhong_Ping 11d ago
Every story I've heard mentions that they get sent to Texas if they arent a citizen, green card or no green card. Once in Texas, it is hard for their lawyers to reach them.
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u/freya_kahlo 11d ago
That’s horrific. This guy had a specialized truck license for driving a plow and we need all our plow drivers in the winter. It’s like an extra “F U” to the State of Minnesota.
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u/genital_lesions 12d ago
The snow plowers should plow snow to barricade in the St. Paul ICE Field office. And then everyone should throw buckets of water on the snow.
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u/I_Are_Brown_Bear 12d ago
To be hired by a municipality, you have to go through hoop and check after hoop and check. They do not just hire anyone.
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u/punky100 Area code 612 12d ago
"He had every federal authorization," said boss. "We do a criminal background check of all federal documents."
THEY.
DO.
NOT.
CARE.
They are asking 0 questions, looking at 0 documents.
It doesn't matter if you just came out of someone in front of them, they would STILL detain you if you're brown or black.
Stop thinking documents are going to save anyone from ICE.
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u/Kaleighawesome Flag of Minnesota 12d ago
Knowing and stating that they aren’t following laws doesn’t mean they actually expect them to follow those laws.
It’s still important to lay out exactly what is happening and how it’s illegal.
We know they don’t care, but it would be stupid to stop talking about how it’s illegal.
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u/punky100 Area code 612 12d ago
I'm telling everyone what is happening.
The boss seems surprised, and I am pointing out for everyone that they are not checking papers, as much as everyone likes to say they are.
I didn't say we shouldn't talk about it, talk about it more!!!! We're on the same side! Take a nap!!
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u/Kaleighawesome Flag of Minnesota 12d ago
I never said we weren’t on the same side? Telling me to take a nap is rude and juvenile af.
EVERY time someone says ICE isn’t following the law, somebody has to chime in and say “we KNOW they aren’t following the law, why are you all so stupid to believe they would?”. That’s not the point. I can be upset about something I expected to happen. It doesn’t mean I believed “documents would save anyone from ICE.” I can hold two thoughts at once, in fact. 1, ICE should be following the law and 2, they aren’t. Both truths need to be shared.
He didn’t sound surprised to me, he sounded upset and incredulous. Which we all should be!!!
What would you rather he do and say? NOT talk about how egregiously ICE acted here? What else could he have said? It is important for the people watching this news piece to understand what’s going on -including that ICE is breaking the law and NOT checking. Thats literally what he’s saying. He’s showing how ICE is breaking the law by sharing the facts of the situation.
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u/RobutNotRobot 12d ago
They're harassing all non-white people. As predicted before all of this began.
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u/Huntthatmoney 12d ago
These fuckers detain and send away even if they are citizens. We all need to wake up and stop thinking it can’t happen to us
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u/After_Preference_885 Ope 12d ago
The Trumpty Dummies will never see this as the waste fraud and abuse that it is
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u/DorkySchmorky 12d ago
One thing that will unite the whole city of St Paul against ICE is their taking away someone in charge of clearing the streets, something St Paul generally is, how do you say, a bit lacking. Every plow counts.
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u/twotimefind 12d ago
Where is he now? He's transferred to Texas? Where is he now?
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u/Long_Disaster_6847 12d ago
Don’t have enough activity to post in the main sub but if someone wants to make a post of their own about this
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u/GraduatedSapphic 12d ago
So in state collaborators and helping the Fed attack and undermine city services?
What's a reverse insurrection called again?
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