Saturday, January 17, 2026

Minneapolis On 🧊

Not the video under discussion below 👇, but consider it for context:
Brown was skeptical and showed McLaughlin a video of a Minnesota woman who was questioned about her place of birth and asked to show identification by border patrol agents, and the CNN anchor asked her to explain that interaction.

"That video was filmed by a woman who, as you heard, said she is a U.S. citizen," Brown said. "Why exactly was she stopped? Was there reasonable suspicion? Which is a legal bar, as you noted, that a crime was committed in that situation, and why was he asking her where are you born? What was he basing that on?"

McLaughlin defended the officers' actions, saying they were justified in stopping the woman and demanding proof of citizenship.

"I haven't seen this video before, so there could be two circumstances here," McLaughlin said. "Either he this is a targeted operation and she's around the vicinity of it, around the target. There's reasonable suspicion because there might be a descriptor or she could be 5'6 and they're looking for somebody who's 5'6. That could be part of it, they're looking for somebody that could be part of it. The other piece of it is, it could be, I don't know if she was obstructing law enforcement, if she was assaulting law enforcement prior to this, but they either have those Title VIII authorities under the U.S. code, 1357 or they have that reasonable suspicion."
"Looking for somebody 5”6’” does not rise anywhere close to reasonable suspicion. And being a bystander? What’s suspicious about that? Asking for their ID/proof of citizenship on pain of detention/arrest, because of height, proximity, accent? As plain a violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments as I can imagine. Especially if you’re detaining people in a public place, and have no grounds other than “other people were around.”

47 days of training? You can’t learn the rudiments of 4th and 5th Amendment jurisprudence in 47 days. Especially when that’s not the only thing you need to learn. And when you seem semi-literate to begin with. Nothing about this situation inspires confidence.
Brown pushed back, saying the videos don't appear to show what McLaughlin claimed.

"But what do you say to to those who watch that and other videos that they're seeing themselves?" she said. "I mean, this is not just the mainstream media. This is, people are seeing these videos and they're concerned and they're concerned that a place like Minnesota is turning into a police state, and they're going up to U.S. citizens asking for ID."

"I think that there's a lot of fearmongering going on, I think, by the media," McLaughlin protested.

"But hold on, let me just correct you right there," Brown interjected. "Let me just, they're watching these videos and using their independence of mind. It's not the media."

"No, actually it is the media," McLauglin shot back, "and we're seeing it time and time again by saying things like the police state. What we're seeing is rampant violence against our law enforcement, highly coordinated. We have our legal authorities, when individuals see videos like that, you have to ask the question, was this individual obstructing law enforcement, which is a federal crime? Were they assaulting law enforcement, which is a felony, or any of those instances occurring before this video was cut, because you saw a very short cut? And that's what I'm talking about. The media, there is not a lot of context that's being [left] out there."
First, crimes need a bit more than “No, I won’t show you my ID,” or blowing a whistle to signal 🧊 is in the area. Or using the public streets and running into a raid and being attacked by 🧊 agents who blame you for being in the way of their car.

Notice how she steered away from Noem’s comments about proof of citizenship so 🧊 won’t detain you? Notice how she blamed the victims for getting in the way of the fists or pepper bombs or cars of 🧊 agents. But moved away from the clear comments of the Secretary of Homeland Security. And, of course, he there’s the idea that “people in the area” are guilty by proximity:
"Agitators” bring children to the riot. I’m surprised DHS didn’t claim they were paid extra for the children.

Accountability is for Trump’s enemies. Who is anyone who is not with him. Even people on the public roads.
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