Protests follow after 15 Minnesotans charged with anti-ICE conspiracy
Minnesota Public Radio News reports that the U.S. government announced yesterday that a grand jury has indicted 15 Minnesotans “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement” during the surge of immigration enforcement operations in the state earlier this year.
Daniel Rosen, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, "turned aside specific questions connected to the alleged conspiracy, saying repeatedly that evidence would roll out later."
Read the Federal indictment from Department of Justice.
Protest outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul followed the aannouncement. U.S. marshals used pepper spray and aerosol grenades against the protesters.
