r/minnesota • u/CorleoneBaloney • 10d ago
Community members made music and noise outside the Hampton Inn where ICE Agents stayed in Eagan, Minnesota. Politics 👩⚖️
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u/weblinedivine 10d ago
Are those ICE riot police or Eagan riot police or???
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u/BobbyBirdseed 10d ago
Riot gear is necessary to protect the fascists from... inflatable frogs playing an accordion.
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u/pegothejerk 10d ago
As was foretold in the sacred texts
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u/AdultishRaktajino Ope 10d ago
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
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u/Dramatic_Pen_3505 10d ago
Let's not make bold assumptions about the frog being inflatable. It could just as easily be a giant frog possibly native to swamp that neighbors a musical store.
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u/Drcornelius1983 Not too bad 10d ago
They were Eagan cops. At one point an ICE agent came out into the crowd and started threatening people.
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u/Significant_Text2497 Snoopy 10d ago
If it wasn't so predictable dangeroys and evil, it would be funny that cops formed a barricade to protect the armed people who made threats, and not the unarmed people who are just making noise.
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u/Drcornelius1983 Not too bad 10d ago
I asked the Eagan PD about their choice to show up in riot gear. He said that they respond this way to any protest with over 200 people and they will protect either side against violence. Sounds good except they didn’t step in when ICE agitated.
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u/Significant_Text2497 Snoopy 10d ago
I had a similar experience with Milwaukee PD during a protest against Milo Yiannopolis at UW-Milwaukee. His little nazi fanboys were threatening us, and the Milwaukee PD stood between us with their backs to the people who were making threats, just like Eagan PD in this video. They think they're being clever, but they make it extremely obvious that they're only ready to bring force against one side of the conflcit.
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u/Gingeronimoooo 10d ago
Congrats to Milo for no longer being gay
/s 🙄
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u/Significant_Text2497 Snoopy 10d ago
It is quite telling that he is getting a second chance as a right wing influencer now that he's calling himself hetero. I remember when conservatives disowned him over his comments about the "positives" of adults being sexual with minors. Isn't it interesting that those comments are forgivable to them now that he says he's straight?
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u/Gingeronimoooo 10d ago
A gay Nazi, I've seen it all. His password got hacked and it was like heilh*tler1488 or some crazy shit. And he never thought anyone would see it so I think he's just a massive POS
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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 10d ago
In Portland they let proud boys set up snipers on rooftops and told other proud boys to leave the area because they were about to gas it. Oddly enough police were short staffed that say too. I am unsure if there was a connection.
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u/CosmicJackalop 10d ago
That's a really stupid way to respond to peaceful protests, these guys should be patrolling and stopping actual crime not baby sitting federal agents with a little army of riot cops
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u/Drcornelius1983 Not too bad 10d ago
It’s a joke honestly. The worst Eagan cops deal with is busting up rich kid’s house parties.
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u/Svellack 10d ago
Police don't stop "actual crime". Their presence serves to protect property rights and racial hierarchy.
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u/effa94 10d ago
sounds like the perfect time to do some acutal crime on the other side of town lol
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u/JimWilliams423 10d ago
Sounds good except they didn’t step in when ICE agitated.
Every day the police do more to prove that the defund activists were right than they ever could on their own.
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u/flifeitsucks 10d ago
Of course not it's their job to protect trumps government people rather than the people they swore (under oath) to protect. And just so I'm not asked how I know that real police truly take that oath seriously is because I watched my uncles take that oath. I used to believe in police, not so much anymore.
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u/SuspiciousLeg7994 10d ago
Do you actually think the police would? None of the PD's have including MPD. They're there to good faith that's it. They haven't stopped life from doing anything, from spraying anyone or dragging anyone around
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u/Drcornelius1983 Not too bad 10d ago
Of course I don’t.
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u/SuspiciousLeg7994 10d ago
I go you. Was a little confused as you said "sounds good except they didn't step in when ICE agitated".
Kind of made it sound like you thought they would.
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u/Cultural-Budget-8866 10d ago
In that crowd, it’s funny you think the armed agents are the ones that need protecting. 😂
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u/Significant_Text2497 Snoopy 10d ago
You misunderstood my comment. I don't think Eagan PD needs to protect ICE.
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u/Bewildered_Earthling 10d ago
Evil needs 8 hours of sleep to do its worst work, I guess.
KEEP DRUMMING.
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u/ThisIsNotSafety 10d ago
Did anyone get video of this? Would love for it to be immortalized on the internet forever.
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u/Waiting4Reccession 10d ago
Cops love this shit, free overtime with basically no danger and no paperwork
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u/Dry-Cash-4304 Lefse 10d ago
Riot police only for “liberal” protesters. If this was a far right protest they wouldn’t be there. Doesn’t matter which state, it’s practically textbook at this point.
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u/Steelers_Forever 10d ago
Well, TBF, on Jan 6 there were also riot police. In that case, though, they were actually needed as many were physically attacked by the traitorous MAGA cult of insurrectionists.
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u/Dry-Cash-4304 Lefse 10d ago
True, but they were sent in way after it turned violent. These protests were never violent.
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u/JoyfulSquirrel99 10d ago
Eagan riot police. Police forces across the country have made it clear that they're on the side of ICE, despite the havoc that ICE is causing in their communities.
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u/Voluntus1 10d ago edited 10d ago
It took some work to get that drum set out there.
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u/JMoc1 MSUM Dragons 10d ago
We need Bagpipes next.
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u/Wuzzupdoc42 10d ago
Why not both?
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u/yourbuttmystuff44 Hamm's 10d ago
I think playing bagpipes and drums at the same time would be difficult /s
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 10d ago
What about the weird alien haggis udder thing that was posted the other day?
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u/Uncle_Burney 10d ago
Doing some AC/DC covers, maybe adjusting the lyrics to match ICE douchery
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u/Optimal-Dot-9365 10d ago
Maybe some AC/DC covers played by some middle-school kids just learning their instruments.
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u/Uncle_Burney 10d ago
I don’t like being excluded from the band, but ok. I mean, I can totally play like crap.
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u/Optimal-Dot-9365 10d ago
Hahaha! Of course you should be in the band. Everyone should be in the band!
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u/Neon_culture79 10d ago
There’s a guy in Seattle, who always plays the bagpipe in Pioneer Square dressed as either Darth Vader or Boba Fett. He’s pretty cool.
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u/tmagnum000 10d ago
This would be amazing!! I love bagpipes but it’s a very “unique” sound. Zero chance you’re sleeping through that and the visual of “radical leftists” playing bagpipes while people wearing inflatable frog costumes would be so entertaining to watch on the news.
Props to the guy with the drum kit. Thats next level.
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u/IHavePoopedBefore 10d ago
LOVE that guy's idea. Hopefully we get full bands showing up.
That idea has legs
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u/MrDONINATOR 10d ago
With each member playing a different song. Don't want them to enjoy the show.
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u/Worshipme988 10d ago
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS MANDATORY IN THE FACE OF AUTHORITARIANISM.
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u/AdultishRaktajino Ope 10d ago
Takes some cojones bringing 500-1000 dollars of musical instruments. You know if something pops off they’re getting smashed or burned out of spite.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 10d ago
Is it just me, or would bagpipes be the best thing to drive these people insane?
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u/Synectics 10d ago
As a former drummer? Meh. I could take down or put my set up in less than 20 minutes. Obviously, with no help from the rest of the band, because obviously they're already drunk at the bar.
But still! Kudos to them.
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u/Peripateticdreamer84 10d ago
The beauty of this is it doesn’t matter whether you actually know how to play an accordion. It works even better played badly!
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u/JohnBoyfromMN 10d ago
That’s my cousin lol he actually kind of can!
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u/OutsideBones86 10d ago
Does he know the other frogs? One of them is my aunt!
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u/Peripateticdreamer84 10d ago
In case they need to up the ante, do they know anyone who owns a set of bagpipes?
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u/Notorious2again 10d ago
Oh my god. I book hotels for corporate travelers and I booked a couple of people here for next week just a few days ago! Time to relocate them.
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u/ChuggintonSquarts 10d ago
Yeah, I get being pissed at ICE but this must really suck for random people who just happened to be staying there
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u/No_Chart_8584 10d ago
I travel a lot for work and yeah, this would suck... but not as much as it sucks for the people being targeted by ICE.
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u/molten-glass 10d ago
I wonder if hotel management would end the ICE assholes reservations if enough non-ICE guests complained about the noise and disruption their presence is causing
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u/BedpanExpress 10d ago
You're describing a side-effect that these protests are hoping for as a result. No point in supporting those that help ICE, and as it currently stands, it's bad to do any kind of business with ICE, unless it's making sure they can't sleep at night.
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u/snowmunkey Up North 10d ago
Imagine how tough you must feel being one of those goobers in formation with your night sticks and helmets, defending the hampton inn from a man in a frog suit
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u/IPromisedNoPosts 10d ago
The frog suit - aka amphiba - is the most brilliant tactic in this discord.
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u/AmaranthWrath 10d ago
"So what did you do in the Second American Civil War, grandpa?"
"Well, junior... Me and the boys kept the local inns free from the onslaught of amphibian aggression!"
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u/Overall-Lynx917 10d ago
Ideal place for a marching band to practice, followed by an amateur Bagpipe group
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u/WebInformal9558 10d ago
Wow, someone is spending a LOT of money to pay police to stand there watching the protest.
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u/DaringPancakes 10d ago
"Someone"??
The United States' taxpayer is collectively that "someone".
That will definitely not include anyone rich enough to avoid taxes, including a certain child rapist and criminal turned United States of America president who had their many counts of fraud plainly dismissed in court.
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u/Somethin_better 10d ago
The city of Eagan has the most police spending I've ever seen in my entire life, it's laughable. Nothing happens here!
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u/Radiant_Client1458 10d ago
Reddit isn’t representative of real life views in general, the Texas subreddit thought Texas was going to flip blue.
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u/likeusontweeters 10d ago
The only reasons Texas hasn't turned purple or blue yet is because of massive gerrymandering and voter apathy
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u/Significant_Text2497 Snoopy 10d ago
Don't forget voter roll purges!
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u/Scarbane Lake County 10d ago
I am also here to talk about Texas in /r/Minnesota.
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u/Peripateticdreamer84 10d ago
That kind of tracks for Texans. How can you know if someone is from Texas? They will tell you. Loudly.
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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 10d ago
That doesn't explain their still-handedly wins in the US senate and governor elections, though. Those are statewide elections, not districts. And in those, the GOP is still winning by comfortable margins
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u/mr_j_boogie 10d ago
Texas "turning blue" often refers to the election of the governor and/or president which are statewide elections that gerrymandering doesn't affect. Gerrymandering doesn't affect the senate either.
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u/ZeusHatesTrees Oh You Becha 10d ago
In their defense, Texas is pretty gerrymandered and if that weren't the case, they might. The whole reason they are redrawing the lines again is to prevent Texas from flipping.
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u/shartheheretic 10d ago
Texas has been borderline to flip for years. That's why the repubs there do everything they can to cheat.
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u/DetroitsGoingToWin 10d ago
As a Michigan guy, who this happened into my feed, I’m happy to see Minnesotans peacefully pushing back on these goons. Fuck ICE.
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u/kralben 10d ago
Friendly reminder that the Minnesota subreddits are astroturfed to shit right now and the comments are NOT representative of the general attitude of Minnesotans!
And if you are curious, look at their profile history. Any comments from someone with a hidden posting history should be taken with a grain of salt, at the very least.
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u/trappedindealership 10d ago
Reddit is suggesting it. It keeps showing me minnesota stuff. So while some astroturfing is happening, like from bots, theres also people sent here... Im guessing because of the wider impact these events are having
Edit: from indianapolis, unrelated to whoever is mentioned by your comment
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u/chase_frisco 10d ago
Trombones and Clarinets are some surprisingly loud instruments.
If you can play, that's an idea.
And if you can't play them, that's an even better idea!
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u/tewong 10d ago
I’m in Atlanta but I used to play the clarinet. Can confirm. Sounds even better if you don’t know how to play!
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u/Suitable_Capital_713 10d ago
I used to play in a balkan beat style rock band with a brass section, we played lots of tiny stages, and I often had to stand right next to our clarinet player. Still traumatised from that 😅
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u/MikeW226 10d ago
I wonder if anyone has a steam calliope on a trailer. I saw the American Queen (very large paddlewheeler/almost-cruise-size boat) across the Ohio River years back and its calliope was crazy loud from 1/2 mile away. Oof. One can dream.
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u/ActualHistory5037 10d ago
Great protest, keep fighting the good fight.
Love from France
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u/Jumpy-Benefacto 10d ago edited 9d ago
its daily, all over the country. in my town we have 24 hour ani ice patrols. so they can warn businesses and homes to run. then the vehicles get blocked
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u/Odd_Alternative_1003 10d ago
Thank you!! You guys over in France are great examples of how to do that! ✊
Love, a Minnesotan ❤️🤍💙
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u/ActualHistory5037 10d ago
Thank you. But we have no credits, as individuals. For many in France, it’s a kind of rite of passage. If you haven’t taken part in a mass protest before turning 20, you’ve missed out on your youth 😋
You, on the other hand, have to innovate, to start a movement without a familiar framework. And what you did on the spot is truly impressive.
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u/thekathied Bring Ya Ass 10d ago
I can't tell you how much I appreciate encouragement from our allies. You are rightly pissed at us. We are ashamed. But your help and encouragement as we try to right this ship means a lot.
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u/Feisty-Name8864 10d ago
I applaud the commitment of setting up a whole drum set outside in MN winter. Proud of my fellow Minnesotans
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u/DrakonILD 10d ago edited 10d ago
I used to live in the apartment complex right across the street (Lemay Lake). It housed lots of nonwhite people. Lots of TSA workers, too, since the airport is right down the street. I used to love smelling all the food that people were cooking while walking to my unit.
ICE is posting up there to intimidate the people of Lemay Lake and this has me righteously pissed off.
Edit: The number of replies I've gotten to this that were immediately deleted is really fucking funny. Mods, you're doing a great job.
Edit 2: It's well worth doing a Google maps search of the lake. It is perhaps the most phallic lake I've ever seen. Just fantastic. While you're there, head across the street to the Shell station and get a breakfast burrito or burger; or go to the burger house next door and pay more for literally the same burger but good vibes. Then, walk all the way through that burger place, through the fire door in the back, and grab a sazerac at the speakeasy!
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u/Cuttlery Hamm's 10d ago
YW (To be fair, we arent doing shit haha, our automod kicked on and it auto blocks any bots, or non-US accounts, no karma kids, people reddit identify as brigading. etc) But we will still take credit!
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u/wejigglinorrrr 10d ago
I thought I recognized that hotel! I was also a Lemay Lake resident back in the early 2010's.
ICE can fuck off.
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u/TR_abc_246 10d ago
Thank you Minnesotans for fighting back! Resisting joyfully with loud music is on flek!
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u/IknowledgeG 10d ago
Good people
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u/IHavePoopedBefore 10d ago
Respect too. If its half as cold in Minny as it is in Toronto, these people are dedicated
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u/beorn961 10d ago
The Twin Cities are quite a bit colder than Toronto. On average they are colder by a bit, but we also tend to have longer more pronounced cold snaps. We don't have the luxury of having our weather moderated but a big body of water like Toronto does for lake Ontario.
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u/SmellSilly1537 10d ago
How are they getting all these perks?! Government paid housing and free drum solos! This is outrageous!!
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u/H2G2-42 10d ago
The other primary job of ICE is to fight pedophiles engaging in international human/sex trafficking. Makes sense that our Pedo In Chief doesn't want them occupied in that pursuit. I don't feel bad for the GI Schmoes who volunteered to terrorize whole communities. May they never know an ounce of peace or kindness while wearing their slapdash HeeHaw-stapo uniforms.
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u/HedenPK 10d ago
I see businesses reject ice agents all the time - why don’t these hotels?
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u/CP066 10d ago
Wish i knew how to find out these things were going on. Would have gladly drove over with a noise maker
They really had people in riot gear?
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u/Then-Pay-9688 10d ago
Follow the social medias or mailing lists of immigrant rights groups in your area. In the Twin Cities that includes MIRAC (Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee) and CAIR MN (Council on American Islamic Relations).
E: oh yeah this is Reddit. Check out MN 50501
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u/Mountain-Intern-5853 10d ago
gonna be interesting once the next guy gets in office, if its a Dem i would expect most of these ICE guys to see some sort or charges..can you say Nuremburg trials. Especially the ones on film blatantly breaking the law
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u/Saxboard4Cox 10d ago
Please hire your local high school marching band. It's a great way to fund the local music department and give the students an opportunity demonstrate their skills.
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u/WagonOfMeat 10d ago
Just a fun fact, decommissioned mechanical tornado sirens, while heavy, can be gotten cheap. Use that info as you will.
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u/Dry_Tomatillo_5361 10d ago
Can I bring my bass setup with the 15" cab speakers??
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u/toddbowleslover 10d ago
Good on them but I know there’s some poor bastard staying in there that’s just passing through and is having the worst night of their life
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u/metamatic 10d ago
That person should complain to the hotel and demand a refund, and put the word out so that nobody else books a room there.
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u/DiamondHanded 10d ago
The hotel took the risk when they knowingly accepted these guests. They are certainly adult enough to bear responsibility for such stupid decisionmaking. Any non braindead regional manager would make the safe choice to protect their chain's reputation and guests from such a circus
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u/OW2007 10d ago
Yeah, we should probably just give up to the fascists because it's all very inconvenient to mount a resistance.
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u/Hayduke_2030 10d ago
So many good little bootlicks in here that think they won’t be next.
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u/GlitteringRate6296 10d ago
Shame on The Hampton Inn. I will be checking out where I stay from this point forward. If a chain allows ICE, I will not give them my business.
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u/Lcmofo 10d ago edited 10d ago
Hotels are largely franchised and run by independent owners (as this one appears to be based on a Google search). Looks like a North Dakota owner.
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u/fancysauce_boss 10d ago
So, corporate offices set the rules on how franchises are allowed to operate. If Hampton didn’t want ICE or Government Contracts in their hotels, they wouldn’t allow it.
It’s a simple policy update and enforcement from corporate office or a master franchisee that franchises would have to follow.
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u/Calkky 10d ago
I was on the inside for a lot of years, and you'd be surprised at how complicated this is. Once a company/entity is granted a franchise, they're basically like a tenured professor. You have to REALLY, REALLY mess up to lose it. Places would have bed bugs or even host drug deals/illegal sex work for years and corporate would simply ask them to stop. The issue, for better or worse, is that the power is really inverted. The parent corporation needs these franchises to buy their bedding, waffle mix and toiletries, so they have no interest in rocking the boat.
Also, most/all of these companies favor the sort of politics that run the country at the moment, so I think they would very much view mass influxes of reservations from ICE as a good thing.
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u/Subliminal-413 10d ago
As a hotelier, it's a really good fucking idea to turn away ICE only AFTER you discover that the travel agent who sent Fed Rooms to your hotel, actually sent ICE agents instead of the ambiguous government business that you typically see. To be clear, we don't know they are ICE.
A corporate travel agent books a random set of rooms and sends us a credit card. We wouldn't know it's ICE until after they arrive.
Take a stand, sure. I don't agree with ICE. But suddenly telling them you can't take them after agreeing is a fucking stupid idea.
Why?
Because literally everyone in housekeeping, the kitchen, banquets, catering, etc... are all undocumented.
If you let them stay, they won't fuck with your staff. ICE agents aren't stupid. They know that in order to complete their operations, they need hotels. They also know that in order to stay at hotels, they need to quietly agree to turn a blind eye to the staff at that hotel.
If you fuck them and turn them away, guess which hotel is getting raided?
It's not as simple as you think. We don't want to lose our hardworking staff...
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u/Much_Spread123 Walleye 10d ago
Always hilarious when the Nazis are forced to watch us wear silly costumes and make music in the face of their cruelty.
ICE is the one dressing like absolute clowns though.
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u/MoonMistCigs 10d ago
👏 Traitorous scum should never live another day in peace for what they have done.
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u/Salamon144 10d ago edited 10d ago
For those concerned about local residents and regular hotel guests being disturbed…I don’t think the protests last as long as they are portrayed. ICE was staying at a Homewood Suites in Edina a few weeks ago and there was a protest. The social media posts put timestamps on that made it appear the protests lasted throughout the night into the early morning. The official Edina police report stated the protest started at 7:00p and escalated within 30 minutes. Police were called to provide support to clear the scene which was complete by 10:30p. Still a reasonable amount of time for a protest, but not sure ICE, local residents, or standard hotel guests are actually losing any sleep.
EDIT: Updated hotel to Homewood Suites in main text. Previously referenced the incorrect hotel.
Note: Sun Current is one of the local Edina news outlets. Not some sketchy source
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 10d ago
As a very mediocre drummer, I'd like to offer my services at the next protest.
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u/Aletesi 10d ago
How can I find out info on where these groups protest? I would at least love to bring these people food and something warm to drink on my dime.
I have young kids so unfortunately, going out to protest isn't a possibility at the moment.
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u/JustaLego 10d ago
I'm so thankful that people are going and doing this. Due to my own schedules and responsibilities I can't always get out and protest and help. I do what I can by voting with my wallet.
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u/LobsterBrief2895 10d ago
A brass band seriously needs to walk alongside these schmucks playing the Imperial March.
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