#112: From Minneapolis to Los Angeles: The Origins of the Wave of Resistance to ICE

This episode offers audio versions of “Minneapolis to Feds: ‘Get the Fuck Out’” and “Los Angeles Stands up to ICE: A Firsthand Report on the Clashes of June 6,” which trace the origins of the angry response to federal raids that spread across the United States in early June 2025.

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• Table of Contents
  • Introduction {0:34}
  • Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out” {0:41}
  • Account I: The Raid {8:11}
  • Account II: The Response {11:51}
  • Los Angeles Stands up to ICE {17:58}
  • First Action, High Noon {19:48}
  • Second Action, 4 pm {22:59}
  • Third Action, 10 pm {24:35}

• This episode offers audio versions of “Minneapolis to Feds: ‘Get the Fuck Out’” and “Los Angeles Stands up to ICE: A Firsthand Report on the Clashes of June 6,” published by CrimethInc. on June 4, 2025 and June 6, 2025, respectively. The articles include a variety of hyperlinks offering further documentation of the events.

• The clash in Minneapolis came on the heels of a raid in San Diego in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Homeland Security Investigations agents shot flash-bang grenades at an angry crowd. You can read more about the response to the federal raid in Minneapolis here.

• After the uprising in Los Angeles, fierce protests followed elsewhere around the country. We published reports from Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois. We have also published a readercollecting many reports and analyses covering the events of the first half of June 2025.

• Many ICE operations have obviously been calculated to be as brutal as possible, targeting documented as well as undocumented people with the intention of terrorizing the general public. This gratuitous cruelty is fundamental to Donald Trump’s governing strategy, as explained here.

• A large number of employees at other federal agencies have been reassigned to assist in the assaults on communities that ICE is carrying out. You can read about that here.

• To learn more about what you can do to resist ICE assaults on your community, you could begin with this guide. You can also educate yourself about rapid response networks. In 2018, demonstrators established blockades at ICE facilities, demonstrating how to take the initiative in the fight against ICE.

• The movement against white supremacy and police that culminated in 2020 with the George Floyd uprising offers an important reference point for any struggle against federal forces.

• This short guide has been circulating in the wake of the uprising in Los Angeles; it covers street safety and other important factors to consider in the midst of the resistance to ICE and Donald Trump’s attempt to impose fascism via military occupation.

• If it is possible that you will be in an environment in which chemical weapons are deployed, it is possible to extinguish tear gas canisters—consult this tutorial. You can find a wealth of similar information about how to stay safe in demonstrations here.