"They don't care. They're just animals," the official added. "I've never seen people behave like this."

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt



“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said. 
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” the official added. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.” 

The school leader said armed officers with apparent Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms arrived at a street near the school in several SUV vehicles during dismissal on Wednesday afternoon. They broke out the window of a vehicle. 

“There’s a car that got hit. I don’t know how it got hit. They broke out the window,” the school official said. “Then different Neighborhood Watch, people, everybody, people, the staff in the school came out. And then they started coming on the property of the school and pushing people and tackling people and shooting pepper spray and pepper balls. And they handcuffed two of our employees.” 
Video shared with MPR News show armed, masked officers with apparent Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms dragging a person on a sidewalk outside of the high school and tussling with another person as bystanders blow whistles and shout. 

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol-clash-at-roosevelt-minneapolis-schools-cancel-classes

[malaise]

1. Frightening

Rec

[popsdenver]

19. This is way way beyond frightening.......

and based on recent past history, I truly believe that we ain't seen nothing yet....They are on a roll..............

Psychiatry text books are already being re-written in all the Psychosis chapters and Pedophillia Chapters

[Irish_Dem]

26. The GOP will re-write it so that psychopaths are normal.

And good decent people are abnormal and insane.

[popsdenver]

38. Logic and rationale

as topsy-turvy as that found in Alice and Wonderland.......

In EMS, if you had a patient displaying the level of Trump's delusional thoughts/actions, you could easily get a cop or Dr. to put a 72 hour mental health hold on him.......not even questionable or arguable............

[Irish_Dem]

40. Yes good is bad, bad is good.

Yes same here.

Evaluating patients in the ER, it would be standard to pink slip someone like Trump.
A clear threat to others and delusional.

[ColoringFool]

51. Just Use Stephen Miller. His World Is Might Makes Right...

The powerful should rule.

[Irish_Dem]

52. Stephen Miller, the new model of sanity and goodness.

May God have mercy on our souls.

[LiberalArkie]

54. They did that when they normalized the Tea Party instead of shunning them.

[Irish_Dem]

55. And when the normalize raping children, Jan 6, etc etc.

[Ocelot II]

2. Why is CPB here at all?

Their jurisdiction is limited to an area within 100 miles of a national border, and the closest Canadian border is more than 300 miles from Minneapolis. I guess niceties like jurisdiction don't matter any more.

[lonely bird]

21. Well

https://fxtwitter.com/i/status/2009067960959455708

According to this it is CBP Bortac which is special ops/counter terrorism tactical group.

[Ocelot II]

23. At a high school?

BORTAC "specializes in counterterrorism, high-risk tactical law enforcement situations, hostage rescue, operating in difficult to access terrain, reconnaissance, and tactical special operations." A high school?

[Jack Valentino]

49. At a high school, they can be fairly certain that the vast majority (probably all) of students will be UN-ARMED...

thus unable to exercise any real self-defense against these thugs!


Just my impression that the anti-immigrant forces contain a huge number of COWARDS
who now feel empowered by being masked and armed!

[sop]

22. Fashy-haired Bovino was there, creating a violent confrontation.

[Jack Valentino]

50. *Some people say* that Bovino should have a price on his head....

[popsdenver]

39. If you have ever known a person

on the Border Patrol.....you would know immediately why Trump's Republicans are using them above all others......
The type of person that gravitates towards the Border Patrol, makes them a special breed, and way beyond perfect for Trump's Gestapo.........
Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, White Supremacists, and Militia Members aren't far behind in my opinion......The perfect pool of individuals for them to recruit from........

AND, as we have witnessed for the last ten years, there are an un-fathomable number of Local Cops and Sheriffs that are just as bad, giving the good cops and sheriffs a bad name......I can't tell you the TENS of MILLIONs of dollars that have been paid out by City Councils, using taxpayer money, for Police Brutality by the Aurora Co Police, and Denver Co Police in these past years........
It is sickening, and like a horrific nightmare that you can't wake up from........(The Colorado State Patrol and some surrounding Sheriff's Department LEO's are fine outstanding individuals, BTW)

[Shipwack]

47. They're at a high school because...

They are too cowardly to go to anyplace remotely dangerous.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I have seen similar behavior. Just watch old film clips of Nazis and other authoritarian private armies.

[ms liberty]

8. A video interspersing clips then and now would be quite instructive, IMO.

I don't know how to do any of that stuff. Someone else is welcome to take the idea and run with it if they so desire!

[erronis]

24. Excelllent idea! Then/now, then/now, ...

[ananda]

18. They're just short of shooting all the men and raping the women.

Sheesh

[quakerboy]

29. *Publicly

I assume we are all aware that kidnapped women are being raped, and people are dying, yes?

[ananda]

36. I forgot about that.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Seinan Sensei]

35. Feckless incels

[misanthrope]

42. Bingo! It isn't new or unexpected

except to the unaware.

[sop]

4. The Twin Cities area have experienced so much unnecessary violence and death over the past 6 years:

George Floyd, Melissa and Mark Hartman, the shootings and murders of children at Annunciation Catholic Church. Now This.

[ananda]

37. I hope the Lippert descendants are doing what they can.

I love Minnesota for being so blue and standing
up for what's right.

[yardwork]

5. Trump has sent goons to terrorize Minnesota.

He's furious that their governor dared to run against his administration so he's going to try to destroy the state.

[dalton99a]

6. The criminals know they have immunity

[IL Dem]

34. Yes, they appear to have immunity right now, but they really don't.

I have to believe that they will face justice (in the near future so I can witness).

[North Coast Lawyer]

44. They don't have absolute immunity.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-federal-officials-immune-from-state-prosecution

[turbinetree]

7. Hey the US Supreme Court 6 maga lackeys and the judge in Florida and will add the

maga US Senate....................this shit show is on your watch every last bit of this shit show.............and people will not forget in fact you have blood on your hands assholes..............you had the means and the rule of law to have thrown this asshole out on his ear...............but your fecklessness speaks volumes of your complicity to in this shit show.......

[B.See]

9. Par for the course in Trump's fascist America....

Did I not say so?

[hadEnuf]

32. Not criticizing your post at all, but technically it is not fascist America.

It is fascists who have seized powerful positions in America. We are under siege.

The battle lines have been drawn. MAGA and the Republicans are not just confused, brainwashed Americans. They are the enemy of America and Americans. They are violent animals who are murdering Americans in the streets. Liberal/conservative has jumped the shark.
This is now good vs. bad.

[B.See]

43. I appreciate your response. To clarify

I've used the term Trump's fascist America for some time now, in various posts, but the term is not intended to imply that all of America is fascist because of Trump.

But rather, the America that Trump and his devotees, disciples, defenders and such ENVISION, the America they want, and are trying to ESTABLISH, is a fascist state.

And yes, it's about good vs. evil, have always thought so, and have often said exactly that.

So I appreciate your post because it gives me the opportunity to explain my intent to you (and others who might be thinking along similar lines).

It goes without saying that, if I thought we were all fascists, I wouldn't even bother.

[hadEnuf]

46. I use the term fascist America myself.

It's not that I intended to correct you. We are becoming fascist America. I just hate how these fascists are dragging
us along with them by association. To me they are not fellow Americans anymore. Not only do they not deserve any consideration, quarter or respect, they have become bonafide enemies of us all. They should be isolated and treated as such by all decent people. Like the nest of rats that they are.

[B.See]

48. Enemies indeed. Worse still,

enemies difficult to isolate because they are among us, they're at the helm of government, and they've been empowered to affect our lives and do us harm, by means and in ways that our perceived 'enemies' have not.

[Paladin]

10. Profoundly good move by the Minneapolis school authorities.

Keeping school personnel and students safe should be the top priority. And if the school closings bring additional attention to open-and-obvious, government-authorized terrorism, so much the better.

[ChicagoTeamster]

12. They're Miller's Nazis. They'll never escape this once Trump is gone. Moderate Republicans will switch sides

Or opt out and the investor class doesn't like instability. On Jan 6th they were trying to engineer a rejection of the 2020 electoral results in Congress based on hypothetical fraud claims so the Congress could pick the President but Trump blindsided them with his wannabe Nazi shit. You'd think they would have learned the first time.

[quakerboy]

31. Why?

Did large portions of the Nazis in germany switch sides prior to being beaten by other powers in a large war?

[Joinfortmill]

13. Like Hitler's, Brown Shirts, the SA.

[orangecrush]

14. Footage

Additional footage shows the brutalization of children, staff, and parents at Minneapolis’s Roosevelt High School by ICE.

— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T11:27:01.946Z

[Botany]

20. How many of those ICE assholes were proud boys, J-6th who Trump pardoned, or one of the 150,000 or ...

… 250,000? fired former cops who Trump had their Federal Records expunged are now ICE agents?
It looks like they went to Minneapolis trying to stir up shit in order to give them an excuse to expand
their crackdown on Americans. Some of Trump and Noem’s responses to the shooting seemed to
be pre written.

[not a texan]

15. Maybe we do need armed guards at school.

It is possible that we do need armed guards at schools, and lots of them. We have found our active shooters they have been worried about for a long time.

[Joinfortmill]

16. ENOUGH: Congress needs to get a goddamn grip and act.

I contacted my Senators and Congress Representatives and told them in no uncertain terms to impeach the Fascist Traitor in the White House. I hope everyone will do the same. This isn't about Party, it's about Fascism .

[Martin68]

17. Ice is actively recruiting thugs by advertising on social media sites devoted to right wing groups that espouse

violence. Their thuggery is not an accident - it is policy.

[aggiesal]

25. As long as there are bounties attached to arrests of immigrants, this will never stop ...

They equate a body to bounty dollars, and we are in their way, to that treasure chest.

[BlueTsunami2018]

27. You know we're going to have to fight them for real eventually.

Quite frankly it’s stunning to me that people still think voting and doing planned marches is going to save us from all this. Or that once Piss dies or leaves (if he leaves) that things are going to return to normal. They’re not. Ever.

These people are fascists. They’re entrenched and empowered and they’re not going away unless we make them go away.

We’re going to have to fight them for real. There’s no way this doesn’t end in blood.

Either that or we just submit and live the rest of our lives hiding or we join them.

Surely by now we must recognize this fact.

[johnnyfins]

33. THIS.

People don't come back from a fascist cult like this. Once they are in, they are in for good.

[Moostache]

28. If you have ever wondered "what kind of person would have been a camp guard for Hitler", wonder no more.

ICE agents ARE those people.
The only thing most of us should be worrying about is how will we ever explain out in action to the future generations that ask US "how did you let this happen?"

We are a rouge nation, led by a cult and infected with evil people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in positions of power and in furtherance of a madman's attempt to become a 'god'.

If you are still spending money in places that support ANY of this, you need to find a mirror and begin rehearsing your story to posterity now. There is one hammer fall these people will still respond to - and its NOT protests or even elections (which will be cancelled by May) - that is hitting them where their hearts lie, in the wallet.

[pandr32]

30. None of us like bullies at school.

These ones are well paid, can be deadly, and sent by our own dear leader.
Parents will keep their kids at home.

[FoggyLake]

41. These are the animals that Trump told to "Stand back and stand by."

I've always wondered why no journalist ever asked him what he meant by that.

[NBachers]

45. Every citizen needs a laser pointer.

[Attilatheblond]

56. Works for cats

But cats do not have military weapons, ballistic armor, or large vehicles. So, maybe not, huh?

[Rhiannon12866]

53. 'Animals': Feds TACKLE staff, gas students at Minneapolis high school, witnesses say - All In - MS NOW

Shortly after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, masked and armed Border Patrol agents entered the grounds of Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis during dismissal. “If you thought that the awful tragedy yesterday would do anything to change the approach that the Department of Homeland Security is taking in Minnesota, you would be wrong,” says Chris Hayes. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joins to discuss. - Aired on 01/08/2026.