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On the night of the 11th and 12th of September, community defenders in Minneapolis, MN descended on the Homewood Suites hotel in a suburb South of the city near the airport. They were following up confirmed reports that ICE was staying there.
Early in the protest, either a hotel security guard or an ICE agent slapped at an activist’s bullhorn and attempted without success to intimidate protesters into leaving. Not long afterwards, protesters marched to the hotel main entrance, and from there groups went to all entrances of the hotel, surrounding the building-and ICE. Protesters made as much noise as possible, preventing ICE’s Orcs from sleeping and sending a loud message to any other hotel daring to host ICE.
It is interesting that ICE picked a hotel well out of town. Many businesses in Minneapolis have posted trespass warnings against ICE, warning them to stay off their property or face arrest for trespassing.
At the Homewood Suites, ICE was under siege. The cops took more than two hours to arrive. Someone said they were riot cops but they did not bring shields and riot weapons. The seemed to just walk up to the hotel and form a line in front of at least one entrance.
While Status Coup was present, no tear gas was fired and no clubs were swinging. One source reports only one person was arrested all night.
This is a powerful rebuke to Donald Trump, KKKristi Noam, DHS, and ICE not only from Minneapolis’s community defenders but possibly from the city government as well.