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![EXCLUSIVE: Tech workers say they were mistaken for ICE agents, accosted by anti-ICE mob What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. Alpha News obtained video and spoke with one of the men, Lee, a software engineer from Plymouth, who described how the situation unfolded. Lee said the group was eating lunch at Clancy’s Deli, near 38th Street and Grand Avenue South, when one of the men — who belongs to an anti-ICE Signal chat — received a message from a group labeled “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response” claiming that plainclothes ICE agents were dining at the restaurant. “My friend was shocked,” Lee said. “He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE.” The software engineers — all white males dressed casually in sweatshirts and jackets — were soon confronted by protesters who surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave, according to Lee. Lee emphasized to Alpha News that the group’s political views were mixed, but said the encounter left some of them reconsidering their positions. “One of us is pro-ICE, one anti-ICE, others on the fence,” he said. “After this, I think some of them are rethinking everything.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2012610307663802819/amplify_video_thumb/2012609481025232896/img/yY7MGpZQHh_yg5IR.jpg)
EXCLUSIVE: Tech workers say they were mistaken for ICE agents, accosted by anti-ICE mob What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. Alpha News obtained video and spoke with one of the men, Lee, a software engineer from Plymouth, who described how the situation unfolded. Lee said the group was eating lunch at Clancy’s Deli, near 38th Street and Grand Avenue South, when one of the men — who belongs to an anti-ICE Signal chat — received a message from a group labeled “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response” claiming that plainclothes ICE agents were dining at the restaurant. “My friend was shocked,” Lee said. “He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE.” The software engineers — all white males dressed casually in sweatshirts and jackets — were soon confronted by protesters who surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave, according to Lee. Lee emphasized to Alpha News that the group’s political views were mixed, but said the encounter left some of them reconsidering their positions. “One of us is pro-ICE, one anti-ICE, others on the fence,” he said. “After this, I think some of them are rethinking everything.”
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🚨 WATCH: Residents speak out as Rochester Public Schools votes to add the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha to the school calendar "Christmas break became winter break. Easter break became spring break ... yet this Muslim holiday is to be an official school holiday. This is an abomination," one speaker said. "If religious accommodation is important ... then equal consideration should be given to all faith communities," said another. The board approved adding Eid al-Adha to the calendar in a 4-1 vote.
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WATCH: Multiple outbursts as the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted 8-1 Tuesday night to close the popular Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park Supporters of closing the park say it is too spiritually significant to Native Americans to continue allowing dogs to roam free. "Imagine that area before the white man, before the pilgrims, pioneers and settlers, the extreme white Christian terrorist," supporter Mike Forcia said. Supporter Erica Crazy Hawk began shouting and moving through the audience, which was largely composed of opponents of the closure. "I should be able to come back here and pray on my g--damn land," she shouted. Despite the disruption, board members did not stop the proceedings or ask security to intervene. At one point, Crazy Hawk shouted, “There shouldn’t even be a vote on this at all.” “Thank you Erica,” one board member responded. “We hear you.”
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🚨WATCH: A Minnesota millionaire tells lawmakers that he legally received SNAP benefits "My wife and I received nearly $6,000 of SNAP benefits over a 19-month period ... my wife and I received these benefits as a wealthy couple because eligibility in Minnesota is based on income only, not assets," Rob Undersander said while testify in support of a SNAP reform bill. "When we have nearly 1 in 7 Americans receiving food stamps in the wealthiest nation on earth with historically low unemployment rates, something is wrong ... one might call the current eligibility rules fraud by design."
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🚨 BREAKING: The Minneapolis City Council moves forward with the potential legalization of "adult bathhouses and sex venues." "The 1988 ban wasn't a neutral policy. It was written during a moral panic targeting gay men," says Council Member Jason Chavez. Do you think this is a good idea?
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🚨WATCH: With the release of declassified documents about COVID, the new Alpha News documentary Minnesota Mao offers perspective on the "petty tyranny" of Gov. Tim Walz's COVID regime. "At every opportunity when he can do something for the broad base of Minnesotans, he chooses the opposite," said Russ Stewart, a professor who was fired for refusing the COVID vaccine.
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🚨 BREAKING: Jay Swanson, a former state trooper who investigated child care fraud in Minnesota, provides damning testimony to the House fraud committee Scammers would "say they first heard about it while in the refugee camp in Kenya ... they had heard you could run the scam in a number of different states, but it was easiest and you could make the most money doing it in Minnesota." Swanson then detailed the retaliation he says he faced from Department of Human Services leaders and said he was told to delete some of his answers to an inquiry from the legislative auditor. "I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs ... I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal." "I told them that the fraud was so huge that sooner or later it would come to light."
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🚨 WATCH: Edwin Reed continues to speak out on how Minneapolis' failures destroyed his business in George Floyd Square "Me and my client witnessed a shooting that took place ... 911 told us they couldn't aid that area and that that area was a no-go zone and that officers were not able to come to that area," Reed said during a press conference this week.
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WATCH: "The mob mentality is stunning" Dr. Mehmet Oz (Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and Jim O'Neill (Deputy Sec. of HHS) explained how they were flipped off, followed, and their cars were surrounded while trying to investigate fraud at a building in St. Paul.
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🚨WATCH: Faye Bernstein, a state employee who blew the whistle on fraud in Minnesota, says "the vast majority of people who were involved in retaliation of me got either bonuses or promotions." "The message is very clear: sit down and shut up," Bernstein says in the new Alpha News documentary Minnesota Mao.
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BREAKING: Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who dropped his bid for reelection yesterday, appears to suggest that Joe Thompson, the top fraud prosecutor in the state, should be "let go." "You saw a US attorney stand up, which has been released by ... would have been let go by any other administration, speculating about things with no factual information. That's defamation, and that's coming from the US attorney. We are under assault."
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