The Intercept: Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It

Natasha Lennard for the Intercept analyzes the Department of Justice's indictment earlier this week of protesters for alleged actions taken in response to the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement operations in Minneapolis earlier this year. "The federal prosecutor in the case, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, warned that more arrests and charges could follow."

Lennard writes that

"[o]nce again, prosecutors are throwing extreme and overreaching charges at activists in a scrambling effort to criminalize organized, collective opposition to Trump’s most violent policies.

The Minneapolis indictment exemplifies the Trump regime’s escalating strategy: Criminalize whole political movements with claims of collective liability and `conspiracy,' and treat typical acts of protest, constitutionally protected speech, association, and political identification as criminal acts.

Call it the spaghetti-against-the-wall approach." (bold added).

This article in Mother Jones also criticizes the indictment.