Audrey Luhmann

Remember when republicans were so upset that ICE agents made a place of worship unsafe for families and children? Remember when they called out ICE for attacking Christianity? Oh right, that didn’t happen because they are hypocrites.

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block. Let’s be very clear about what that means… This wasn’t a federal courthouse. This wasn’t federal property. This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people. That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes. Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance. And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas. That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings. Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is. Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions. Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods. And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all. Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets. So what we’re watching is federal agents: • acting outside their role • performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction • firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods • and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm. This isn’t public safety. This isn’t lawful enforcement. This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it. That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents were caught on camera admitting that following and filming them is LEGAL… and then illegally threatening U.S. citizens with arrest anyway, in Minneapolis. In the video, two agents approach the people filming and say, “You need to stop following us. This is your first and last warning.” The filmer responds, correctly, “That’s not illegal.” An agent then says the quiet part out loud: “I know.” But immediately pivots to, “It’s illegal to impede.” The citizens point out they are not impeding anything, which the agents themselves had already acknowledged. Filming and following on a public roadway is legal. The agents admit they understand this… and still issue a “warning” anyway. When pressed to explain what law is being violated, the agents falsely cite 18 U.S.C. § 111, which does not criminalize public observation or filming. When challenged, they back off, walk away… and then escalate again. One agent yells, “Next time I pull you over, you’re going to get arrested.” Arrested for what? He can’t say. Only after repeated questioning how they are impeding does the agent suddenly claim “impeding traffic.” Even though the citizens were only stopped because the agents unlawfully confronted them in the first place. That’s the point. This is the same pattern we saw when they murdered Renee Good: • Illegal stops • Manufactured violations • Escalation created by the agents themselves • Threats, intimidation, and force justified after the fact They corner people, provoke a situation, then use the situation they created to claim authority… even when they admit no law was broken. This isn’t law enforcement. It’s entrapment, intimidation, and a reckless abuse of power… And we’ve already seen where this pattern leads.