Déjà vu? On Saturday, January 17. 2026 Red State ran this alarming headline, “Things Getting Wild in MN As Anti-ICE Crew Harasses Regular People, Concerning City Email Revealed.”
Things are getting a bit crazy in Minnesota.
We reported how an ICE agent was attacked earlier in the week, federal vehicles were destroyed and damaged, and people even stole weapons out of the vehicles.
But what happened to a group of tech workers at a deli in Minneapolis was pretty wild.
Five software engineers went out to eat at a local deli for a casual lunch, when one of the men got a bit of a surprise as they were eating. The man belonged to an anti-ICE Signal Chat group, and he received a notice from a “rapid response group” that there were ICE members in the restaurant. They thought he and his buddies were ICE. They were all white males dressed in sweatshirts and jackets.
He said when they went out, they were assailed with people insulting them and blowing whistles at them. That’s what the activists do to alert people that ICE is in the neighborhood. One man tried to explain who they were, “We do custom apps for a whole bunch of companies around Minnesota and the country.”
What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents.
“This is the dangers we as American citizens face on a daily basis anymore. You’re not safe walking outside unarmed to take your trash out in today’s unrest.” said National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, Thomas Robb. “Non-white people claim to come here because they live in fear in their third world countries, but in reality, they make it unsafe for us in our once civilized country. I don’t understand all these people trying to defend these non-white illegals. We have ICE in the streets trying to pick these horrible people up, and the radicals makes us just as unsafe as the illegal criminals. I read today a Biden appointed federal judge has ordered restrictions on what tactics can be used by ICE when responding to demonstrations. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in a ruling in a preliminary injunction yesterday bars agents from using pepper spray, arresting, detaining, or retaliating against people who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity. This sounds like the summer of 2020. I don’t know about you, but I have yet to see any peaceful protesting on my news stations. They must be comparing them to the so-called peaceful protests over the George Floyd incident. Just remember this, we have a God-given right to protect ourselves, and I advise anyone around these riots be prepared to do just that. Just like in 2020, law enforcement has their hands tied.”
