Crime
January 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In “Disorder in the court,” I wrote about the government’s efforts to secure against warrants against five participants in the Cities Church riots. At the time all I had to go on was Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz’s letter responding to the government’s petition for mandamus in the Eighth Circuit. He also wrote a second letter that is posted online here. Among other things, Judge Schiltz writes, “Two of the five
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January 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The left is making a hero and a martyr of Alex Pretti, which makes perfect sense if you ignore nearly all the facts. Here is what we know so far: * Pretti was no innocent bystander or peaceful protester. He was a member of the signal “ICE watch group” that was formed to interfere with federal law enforcement. Matt Margolis has much more about the well-organized, and no doubt well-financed,
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January 25, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Tim Walz and Jacob Frey have blood on their hands. The VP is correct… Texas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, etc have had more ICE arrests than Minnesota, but they cooperate with federal law. Their officials don’t urge the public to resist. https://t.co/V2KX5hhNWy pic.twitter.com/UZXCQZaIYC — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 25, 2026
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January 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Well, not all of Minneapolis. But a portion of South Minneapolis. The miscreants are a combination of Antifa thugs and woolly-headed Minnesota liberals, all playing at being Communist revolutionaries. To the barricades! And they have, indeed, erected barricades of a sort. Videojournalist Rebecca Brannon is on the scene: Protesters form street barricades made of mattresses and dumpsters. Anti-ICE crowd continues to grow and is pushing authorities back.#Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/qFaUabEblG — Becca
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January 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
A mob of protesters turned out in South Minneapolis this morning to harass law enforcement. Someone wound up getting shot and, reportedly, killed. So far there is little information on what happened. The person who was shot was armed, but whether he was trying to murder a police officer is not yet clear. BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews the suspect was armed with a gun, which has been recovered by federal
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January 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
On Sunday morning, leftists invaded the Cities Church in St. Paul, bringing worship services to a halt and terrorizing parishioners. We wrote about the disgraceful incident here and elsewhere. The invasion, which among other things was a criminal trespass under Minnesota law, was organized by Twin Cities activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and others. Disgraced former CNN talking head Don Lemon “reported” from inside the church and may have helped organize
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January 20, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Fox News reports the earlier today, the FBI served grand jury subpoenas on the offices of Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Jacob Frey. The subpoenas are said to request “records and communications.” The Department of Justice is investigating an “alleged conspiracy to coerce or obstruct federal law enforcement during ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minnesota.” U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News the duo’s
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January 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
President Trump has placed federal troops on alert for possible deployment to Minnesota. The Wall Street Journal reports: About 1,500 active-duty soldiers have been placed on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota in response to widespread protests over immigration enforcement in the state, according to four defense officials. The Pentagon has ordered the soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division to prepare to deploy, meaning they are ready
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January 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
We wrote here about the mob of leftists that invaded a Baptist church in St.Paul on Sunday morning. Disgraced ex-CNN personality Don Lemon “reported” from the scene of the criminal trespass and apparently was one of the organizers of the invasion. The attackers have been universally condemned, and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is on the case: 🚨 BREAKING: Trump DOJ to bring charges under the
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January 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I was on the Rita Panahi show last night, her first episode since a break for the holidays. It was part of her popular “Lefties Losing It” segment. We talked mostly about the insurrection in Minnesota, and the role played in it by Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. That was the bulk of the conversation, but we also touched on Venezuela and Iran. This is the full Lefties segment. I
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January 18, 2026 — John Hinderaker
In Minnesota, the government-sponsored insurrection continues, and events are spinning out of control. This morning, left-wingers invaded a Baptist church and disrupted a service that was in progress, committing, at a minimum, criminal trespass. Former CNN host Don Lemon participated in the outrage: Shocking footage from Cities Church in Minneapolis this morning (an SBC church) where an anti-ICE mob stormed the service and disrupted their worship, alleging one of the
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January 17, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Protests and counter-protests on the streets of downtown Minneapolis this afternoon in front of City Hall. The U.K. Daily Mail reports, Aspiring conservative lawmaker’s head gushes with blood as Minneapolis descends into anarchy. The Daily Mail includes 30 seconds of footage at the top of their piece. My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has exclusively obtained some raw, low-resolution footage of the event this afternoon, which is posted below.
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January 17, 2026 — Bill Glahn
At this point, Minneapolis exists as little more than a cautionary tale to the rest of America, and the lesson is being learned. From the New York Post, Grinning anti-ICE agitator arrested after allegedly punching Florida trooper as DeSantis warns: ‘This is not Minneapolis.’ Just so. Unfortunately, the lesson is not being learned, back in Minneapolis. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press (PP), State disputes ICE claim: ‘1,360 criminal illegal
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January 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The alleged Latin Kings gangster is accused of stealing a rifle from an FBI vehicle during anti-ICE riots earlier this week in Minneapolis. He made a three-minute-long appearance in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon. He was ordered detained for now. He is scheduled back in court on Wednesday, January 21. At today’s hearing, a consular notice was read into the record, which qualifies Gutierrez for Minnesota Man status. Raul
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January 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Department of Homeland Security has compiled mugshots of a few of our “neighbors” swept up in Operation Metero Surge here in the Twin Cities. Walz has repeatedly professed his devotion to these “neighbors” (“[a]ll across Minnesota, people are stepping up to help their neighbors who are being unjustly and unlawfully targeted…[w]e will re-establish a sense of safety for our neighbors…we take care of our neighbors and we look out
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January 16, 2026 — Scott Johnson
If you want to keep up with what’s happening in the Twin Cities, you more or less have to track it on X. In the post below Nick Sortor follows up on the videos I posted yesterday in “The mire this time.” Sortor’s simple post reporting the arrest of Raul Gutierrez shows that Minneapolis is a hotbed of gang activity and that the gangsters support the resistance to ICE called
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January 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Over the weekend I noted the torching of Mississippi’s Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson. It is the state’s largest synagogue and a previous victim of arson dating back to the civil rights era. This week the FBI found the perpetrator with a little help from his father. Salena Zito devoted a column exploring the question who inspired him. She reports: Russ Latino, a native Mississippian and founder of the Jackson-based
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