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A federal appeals court on Monday set aside limits a lower judge had placed on federal agents and their ability to use crowd control tactics on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the lower court ruling was too broad and unworkable. It blocked the ruling while the case develops further.

Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, had ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was too quick to blast protesters with pepper spray,” and had been too aggressive in shutting down anti-ICE activists who had been trailing federal officers in their vehicles.

She said she had viewed video that troubled her, seemingly showing ICE officers deploying pepper spray against protesters who were walking away and weren’t a threat.

She said it was broad enough that she felt comfortable issuing universal restrictions on some crowd control tactics.

But the 8th Circuit judges came to a somewhat different conclusion.

“We accessed and viewed the same videos the district court did,” the circuit judges said in an unsigned opinion. “What they show is observers and protestors engaging in a wide range of conduct, some of it peaceful but much of it not. They also show federal agents responding in various ways.”

Fueling speculation that it was Governor Walz who backed down, the Administration enjoyed a dramatically good day yesterday, despite the media feeding frenzy around the Pretti-Good shootings. Here’s the mini-roundup of yesterday’s Trump wins:

CNN ran four polls showing a majority of Americans agreed with the statement, “deport all illegals who are here immediately.” In short, Democrats lost the narrative, even their “compromise” narrative of pretending to agree on deporting criminal illegals.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a lower court’s order barring federal agents from pepper-spraying or even interrogating unruly protesters.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on Sean Hannity’s show that a formal investigation is underway over local official involvement in a retarded Signal group coordinating Minneapolis protests. Some people should be sweating; potential charges include felony murder, which is involvement in any crime resulting in someone’s death.

War Secretary Hegseth approved ICE’s use of Fort Snelling (near Minneapolis) as a forward operating base for ICE agents. This means protesters can no longer torture ICE agents at their hotels— and that Trump isn’t backing down. The Chronicle called it, “a sign of President Donald Trump’s Minnesota immigration siege digging in.”

That’s a lot of unconnected events, but if you add them together, it amounts to momentum. Or, in Art of the Deal semantics: leverage. So yesterday was an opportune moment for Trump and Walz to confer. I’m not saying he backed down, but within the last 17 hours, Walz tweeted twice about his “productive” call with President Trump, and ran a feisty op-ed in the Wall Street Journal— in which he insisted, for the first time, that Minnesota’s “Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.”

Left refuses to acknowledge that.

Protesters stormed a Minnesota hotel where they suspected ICE agents had been staying amid unrest following the fatal shooting of absolute moron Alex Pretti who showed up with a gun. (edited for truth) ...

Protestors bashed windows and spray-painted the hotel's facade, videos showed. Others chanted and paced in front of the building.

Many of the mob wore masks as they descended on the scene at around 9pm, banging on garbage bins and bells.

Someone vandalized the glass window at the Hilton's entrance, with bright red spray paint reading, 'ICE OUT OF MPLS.' One person pounding on a garbage pail held a sign that read: 'No justice, no peace.'

Rioters tried to bust through the front door but were unsuccessful and continued their commotion in the street, according to The New York Post.

Anti-ICE protesters violently swarmed a Minneapolis hotel where they believed federal officers were staying, hurling items at people inside, smashing its windows, and graffitiing “F–K ICE” across the building’s facade Sunday. ...

They shoved and hurled objects at a Minneapolis Police Department officer and others just inside the hotel’s lobby and attempted to push their way in — forcing those inside to use two large vending machines to physically block the rowdy demonstrators.

Swarms of heavily armed federal agents later arrived, spilling out of an armored vehicle. They quickly deployed tear gas and flash-bangs to disperse the crowd.

“The Minnesota State Patrol and DNR [Department of Natural Resources] were called to assist Minneapolis police with damage to hotel property at Home2 Suites Hotel on University Avenue,” the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said in a statement on X just before 11 p.m. local time.

“While they collaboratively worked to encircle the group for arrests because the demonstration was not peaceful, federal agents arrived without communication and deployed chemical irritants, clearing the group. The State Patrol and DNR are no longer on the scene.”

So, will we ever know the brass knuckle nipple twist from Trump and Homan? They spoke so nicely and gently about Walz and Frey, it musta been a doozey.

Pretti had a P320. I'm surprised he hadn't already shot himself. Those things fire for no reason and is why I never appendix carry my P365 even though it's probably just fine.

Pretti quit his Nursing Job to go full time Antifa, according to parents.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2016625415125946729?s=20

Video footage shows the man killed by ICE in Minneapolis Alex Pretti violently kicking Federal ICE Officer vehicles and screaming obscenities at them

This is not a man “peacefully observing”

This is a violent agitator.