Minnesota cops help ICE work in secret

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota cops have been aggressively harassing residents who are observing federal officers enforcing President Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing program in the state, according to on-the-ground reports in the Twin Cities metro area.

Despite Trump's federal forces beginning a drawdown following a disastrous Operation Metro Surge earlier this year, a smaller contingent of federal agents remain in Minnesota. With the reduction of federal forces in Minnesota, local cops are now protecting Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Enforcement agents as the government goes about their kidnapping duties in the state.

“The tactic that we’ve seen used is ICE will call local law enforcement and say they are experiencing a road rage incident,” Twin Cities organizer and legal observer Craig Wymore said.

An observer network that was first developed during the beginning of the surge continues to track these DHS immigration officers. In the last two months, those observers have experienced repeated incidents like the one Wymore described, including being ticketed by law enforcement.

Many of those in the network started observing ICE after watching the agency terrorize their neighbors, which included the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Trump’s federal paramilitary force.

“I was motivated to action when, on the day that Renee Good was murdered, federal agents pepper-sprayed schoolchildren at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis,” Minneapolis resident Michael Khalili wrote in a statement submitted in a federal lawsuit against DHS.

“What the federal agents are doing is wrong,” Khalili added. “I knew I had to do something.”

Minnesota State Troopers are now threatening Khalili and others like him with criminal charges if they keep reporting on the whereabouts of federal agents.

In one incident earlier this month, a State Trooper told Khalili that his supervisor requested the trooper speak with Khalili about him observing ICE agents.

"I was directed by my lieutenant simply to speak to you and make clear that this behavior is not going to be allowed. OK,” the trooper told Khalili in a video viewed by Misfits Media. "The point being that if we end up in a situation just like this again, you're probably going to get charged with a crime."

The Minnesota State Patrol said there was no responsive data regarding that incident in response to a public data request by Misfits Media.

"The Minnesota State Patrol takes all complaints and reports of dangerous driving behavior seriously. Our primary mission is to ensure the safety of everyone on Minnesota highways,” Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Jennifer Kreir said in response to an inquiry by Misfits Media about the agency’s recent practices.

"We assess each incident based on the full context and observed driving behavior, not on isolated claims or the identity of individuals involved,” she added.

According to Wymore, ICE agents have also parked at local police stations and had local cops come out and question observers watching them.

The observers are typically held until after the ICE agents have driven away.

“That’s where the collaboration is mostly seen at this point in time,” Wymore said. “To have the state or county apparatus there to put in place those types of threats on behalf of the people from the Whipple Building or ICE agencies and so forth."

While most reports from the community show local cops playing interference for ICE, some local cops are taking it a step further and calling ICE on people, according to a social media post by Twin Cities lawyer Daniel Suitor.

The Bloomington Police Department called immigration officers to report someone for an “immigration enforcement action,” according to Suitor’s post.

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

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— Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) May 18, 2026 at 10:07 PM

This increase in local collaboration between authoritarian state and federal forces comes at a time when DHS is again becoming more active in Minnesota.

Wymore warned that local cops are actively harming the community by interfering with residents observing ICE movements throughout the metro area.

This uptick in local police collaboration with ICE also includes a more aggressive Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken on the duty of protecting Trump’s loyalist forces stationed at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Ft. Snelling.

During a protest earlier this year, Hennepin County deputies, along with Minnesota Conservation officers and the Minnesota State Patrol, repeatedly threatened and attacked protesters at the building.

In another protest incident in April, Hennepin County Sheriff's Sgt. Tyson Donnelly, a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, was seen using pepper spray against a non-violent bystander and getting into stare-downs with protesters while telling them to shut up.

It should come as no surprise that Donnelly’s lack of professionalism with the public also extends to his workplace.

In 2002, the year he was hired by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, he was given a two-day suspension and a letter of reprimand for failing to properly secure an inmate during transportation to the Hennepin County Medical Center. Donnelly failed to properly restrain the inmate with a leg iron, which led to the inmate escaping from custody.

In 2003, he called out sick for work but then was seen by a number of Hennepin County Sheriff's supervisors playing in a golf tournament. He received a written letter of reprimand for lying and falsifying a sickness report.

“…falsely reporting yourself sick and unable to report for duty represents a serious breach of trust between you and your employer,” Donnelly’s supervisor wrote in his disciplinary report.

In 2012, Donnelly was given another written reprimand for unintentionally discharging his taser during a pre-shift function test.

While Donnelly has kept his nose clean at work over the last decade, he now joins the plethora of local cops in Minnesota willing to protect the private paramilitary force of America’s pedophile president.

“It’s absolutely unsurprising how irresponsibly he seems to take his position from even the beginning,” Twin Cities organizer Emily Philips said.

“People like him seem to enter (policing) because they’re drunk on power and want to be able to go off on people like we’ve seen happen,” she added.

By harassing protesters and encouraging violent confrontations with them but not stepping up to stop DHS’s violent assaults in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge, Donnelly and his cohorts in other local law enforcement agencies have given a glimpse into the future for when Trump loyalists return en masse to the state.

The forecast remains dark.