Overview
- Masked activists set up makeshift roadblocks in south Minneapolis, stopping vehicles to check IDs and run license plates against a shared database.
- Video shows officers asking protesters to clear a path for emergency vehicles before leaving without enforcing the removal of the barricade.
- Journalist Jorge Ventura and photographer Erik Herrera reported being shoved and having equipment targeted while filming the checkpoint.
- Ventura recorded an activist telling his Uber driver that the driver’s plates had been flagged in their system as an ICE vehicle before saying it would be removed from the list.
- Alpha News reported the city cleared the specific blockade Monday afternoon, and officials had not issued broad public statements by publication time.