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For sure!
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My questions remain: how was the first shooting communicated and by whom? What are the standard protocols for how HCSO or state police departments respond to a shooting of a state official?
And if he left his vehicle, who picked him up? How did he get to Mpls? How did he get to his other home?
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Cops are cops. Meaning they refuse to be challenged. And then add to that the โthin blue lineโ code of conduct and embedded white male supremacy of police departments and it becomes more clear why this man was able to just drive away. With no one following him.
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I know cops patrol alone. But how was it determined this was sufficient for a welfare check after a shooting?
I wonโt speculate on what she did wrong. But I will say that women cops (and women in general) are constantly undermined by male toxicity and misogyny.
That dynamic cannot be overstated.
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The officer in New Hopeโฆ she was alone? Is that common practice? Especially on a welfare check triggered by a shooting of a senator?
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So New Hope and Brooklyn Park police responded with โwelfare checks,โ but were these just an officer-determined decision by department? Is it not common practice for the HCSO to respond and coordinate immediately?
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Oh, plot twist. She is the captain! She just made an announcement at the gate about a mechanical issue.
I read the bro as the captain since he was telling the crew whatโs what.
This is why I wish they wouldโve explored the dynamics of toxic masculinity in working relationships.
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I found a post on IG from Sabocat Teacher that details ways to support Isabel Lopez with legal fees and other resources.
www.instagram.com/reel/DKyDRba...
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My brain: you shouldโve started packing for your trip hours ago.
Me:
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Hereโs a story about folks showing up for her outside the jail in Sherburne County today.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... Protesters rally in support of jailed St. Paul woman charged with assaulting law enforcement during raid | MPR News
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Who is Isabel Lopezโs attorney? Does anyone know? Is anyone/any org raising funds to pay for attorney fees?
Is there a GoFundMe? Someone willing to represent what will be a critical case pro bono?
Does anyone know how we can support her or her family and friends right now?
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I have so so many. I also have a stash in my basement organized by โsentimental,โ โmusic,โ and โpoliticalโ that I just canโt seem to give away!
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It was the early evening before. He filmed that on June 2, and the raids happened June 3.
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If you're out there defending your rights and your community, be cognizant of these broperatives.
Yeah โ thatโs a word now.
They almost always show up the same way: young, schlubby guys in bedhead and sweats, clinging to their GoPros, reeking of stale male grievance and a thick cloud of fascism.
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And now heโs in L.A. Same narrative. Same โgotchaโ angle aimed at people just trying to defend their human and civil rights.
This is where we are now.
We're witnessing the rise of "federal influencers"โpaid bro operatives embedded into federal operations to legitimize and sell authoritarianism.
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How did he end up at Lake & Bloomington on the same day federal forces stormed in? How does a 23-year-old โ whoโs never filmed here before โ suddenly appear, camera in hand, perfectly positioned to script a federal crackdown in real time?
You donโt just stumble into a scene like that. Youโre sent.
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Trump has always chosen his own media lackeys and MAGA-aligned outlets to spread disinformation.
But this feels different. This is next level. This is a known provocateur, embedded in federal operations to script the story exactly as fascist federal power wants it told.
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Though he's never filmed here before, Nick just happened to arrive the day before a so-called โsearch warrantโ sent armored vehicles rolling through our city. And he just happened to appear on Lake as residents were mobilizing to protect their community from Trumpโs multi-agency federal army. ๐ค ๐ค๐ค
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This is someone Fox News calls an "investigative video journalist," yet Nick Shirleyโs only experience as a journalist is filming high school prank videos and anti-immigrant pro-Trump "gotcha" content for YouTube.
In other words, his only experience is as a bully.
www.reuters.com/world/us/pro...
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Corporate media doesnโt care about our collective future. Or justice. Or human rights.
The language it usesโand the stories it tells or buriesโarenโt meant to inform. Theyโre meant to protect power.
This isnโt journalism serving democracy. Itโs narrative control serving capital.
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There is no correct or polite way to resist fascism. No single โrightโ way to defend your family, your neighborhood, or your human rights and human dignity.
Justice doesnโt come from compliance. It comes from collective refusal to let fascism destroy our communities, our democracy, and our future.
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They are the media executives marching in lockstep with Trump.
The tech bros building surveillance tools.
The prison investors chasing profits.
And the institutions that stay silent while communities are torn apart.
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The real criminals arenโt the people defending their communities.
They are the federal agents with guns.
The deputized forces with rubber bullets and flash-bangs.
The lawmakers who fund the raids.
The judges who rubber-stamp disappearances.
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๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: This isnโt protest or โchaos.โ Itโs a movement for survivalโand the media will continue to work to suppress it and treat "obedience" as the only acceptable response.
But when has protecting your community ever made you the criminal?โจ
*When the violence comes from the state.*
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And executives from both companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trumpโs campaigns and affiliated PACs. Trumpโs own border czar, Tom Homan, received consulting fees from GEO before pushing ICE policies that directly benefited its bottom line.
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๐. ๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จโ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ .
Under Trump, the two largest private contractors with ICEโGEO Group and CoreCivicโhave seen their stock prices surge by 77%.
In the same period, the S&P rose just 6.6%. ICE investors made returns more than ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ than those invested in the broader market.
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Instead, property damage is framed as the crisis. Tear gas becomes โcrowd control.โ Armored vehicles become โsecurity.โ And communities resisting them are labeled "dangerous."
This is an editorial policy that protects property over people and casts resistance itself as a threat to public safety.
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๐. ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ฅโ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ฌ. The media often leads with shattered windows or graffiti, while normalizing the growing presence of armored vehicles, surveillance drones, & military-grade weapons. It doesnโt lead with the truth: ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
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Only those defending their communities are examined, criminalized, and used to delegitimize the broader fight for justice and human rights.
This is how the media serves to reinforce the stateโs version of โlaw and order," even when that order is built on violence and control.
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Yet their search for โviolenceโ or "instigators" is never turned on the federal agents firing rubber bullets into crowds.Never on the raids, the snatch-and-grab arrests, or the corporations profiting from people in cages. That violence is accepted. Justified. Normalized.
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๐. ๐๐ญ ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ-๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ.
Once something is labeled a โprotest,โ the media begins hunting for people to call the โviolent protesters.โ A thrown rock, a broken window, a moment of chaos becomes their click-bait "gotcha" story.
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๐. ๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ: โ๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญโ ๐ฏ๐ฌ. โ๐ง๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ.โ
Calling acts of community defense โprotestsโ doesnโt just misname themโit rewrites the terms of legitimacy using a false binary: โviolentโ vs. โnonviolent,โ as if people under siege must follow the rules of the very systems harming them.
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Communities across the country are responding to an invasion of militarized, armed, deputized police forces sent to inflict fear, violence, and division, especially in immigrant communities.
Framing it as protest diminishes whatโs at stake. This isnโt political theater. Itโs a fight to survive.
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๐. ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ โ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ.โ
Whatโs happening right now isnโt a โprotest.โ It is survival.
Protests are organized demonstrations targeting policies or leaders. What weโre witnessing is something different.
This is self-defense. This is protection.
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Looks like a plume moth.