Trump's Stasi* Racially Profile Off-Duty MN Cop

With guns drawn, of course!

“Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Police Chief Mark Bruley at Tuesday’s press conference.”

* Stasi: “The Stasi was the secret police agency of East Germany and one of the communist government's most hated and feared institutions.”

• Doktor Zoom, Jan. 21, 2026: “[O]n Tuesday a trio of local police leaders held a press conference at the state Capitol to warn that the DHS goons’ out of control actions are undermining the public’s trust in law enforcement. All three of the top local cops said they were getting “endless complaints from US citizens” about harassment by ICE, and that DHS hasn’t done dick to communicate with local law enforcement. Further, all three said their own off-duty officers of color — all US citizens — had reported being pulled over by ICE thugs who wanted to see their “immigration” papers, noting that if it can happen to cops in their private vehicles, it can happen to anyone. … We’ve cued up this video of the press conference to the start of Bruley’s remarks, in which he recounts how one of his officers was racially profiled by ICE agents who held guns on her and only left when she identified herself as a cop. … Bruley said that an off-duty officer in his department was recently “boxed in” by ICE vehicles after the crime of driving past them while nonwhite. The goons demanded she show her immigration paperwork, which Bruley pointed out US citizens are not required to carry. Growing concerned about “the rhetoric and the way she was being treated,” the off-duty cop got out her phone to record, but the goons knocked it out of her hand. (Recording ICE is legal as long as you aren’t getting right up in their masked faces preventing them from doing “law enforcement” shit.) Bruley continued, “The officers had their guns drawn during the situation. After the officer became so concerned, they were forced to identify themselves as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing the incident down.” At that point, the goons departed, without so much as an apology. He added that this was anything but an isolated incident, noting that other officers in his and other area law enforcement agencies had experienced similar profiling, and that all of them were people of color. “If it’s happening to our officers, it pains me to think how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day,” Bruley said. “It has to stop.”

IN OTHER NEWS:

• New York City Bar, Jan. 15, 2026: “The New York City Bar Association (“City Bar”) expresses deep concern regarding the Administration’s reported authorization to assign up to 600 Judge Advocate General (“JAG”) Corps attorneys to serve as temporary immigration judges within the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”). … For the reasons detailed below, the City Bar believes that replacing experienced and specialized career administrative judges with temporary military lawyers is misguided and potentially unlawful.”

• Garrett Graff, Jan. 20, 2026: “Right now, there are 3,000 ICE officers and CBP agents on the ground in Minnesota — a number that dwarfs the ten largest local and state police agencies there combined. It’s an insane use of federal resources. … Overall, CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is FIVE TIMES higher than other federal law enforcement agencies — and, in fact, if you look over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%).

  To frame that a different way: In rough terms, the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States. … Even before ICE cut its training schedule to just 47 days last year — a length, remember absurdly chosen to honor Donald Trump as the 47^th president — ICE’s “1801” deportation officers were among the least educated and least trained federal law enforcement in the country. Other federal agents and law enforcement joke that the quality of the average ICE officer is so low that they are hired “by the pound, from the pound.” … The Border Patrol and ICE are just not trained, prepared, or accustomed to patrolling “regular” America and rolling through neighborhoods, school grounds, parking lots. They’re not regular police, and they don’t know how to behave in this moment. They don’t have the muscle memory or de-escalation skills of dealing with angry citizens or innocent people. It’s clear that many of them lack real-world policing skills. They deploy tear gas or pepper spray as a first line of defense, rather than as a last resort, which is how you’d normally police agencies use it. … Minneapolis’s strong resistance is showing the truth behind my observation last month about how Greg Bovino’s “Confederate rebel cavalry” is losing. A main part of the reason that ICE and CBP is operating so scared on the streets is because they’re being overwhelmed by the resistance. People are videotaping them, following them, warning neighbors, trying to aid the immigrants they’re attacking. Despite what might seem like their overwhelming force, those 3,000 CBP agents and ICE officers are wildly outnumbered by Angry Minnesota Neighbors. Moreover, these Bovino operations are hugely resource-intensive, and can only happen in 2-3 cities at the same time across the country. The terror — and danger — is real, yes, but don’t let that blind you to the fact that right now on America’s streets, good people are winning.”

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