FBI investigating ICE protest organizers after Minneapolis shooting: Kash Patel

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-ice-protests/

FBI investigating ICE protest organizers after Minneapolis shooting: Kash Patel

David Edwards
January 8, 2026 11:08AM ET

FBI Director Kash Patel told Real America's Voice host John Solomon that his agency was targeting organizations exercising their free speech rights by funding protests following Wednesday's killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

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"He said and confirmed this morning that the organizers and funders of the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis are under criminal investigation for impeding lawful law enforcement activities and endangering public safety," he continued. "This is the most strong statement that anyone in the administration is given that not only are the people that ICE is rounding up, doing unlawful activities, but these left-wing anarchist protesters are also potentially going to face criminal sanctions soon."

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[sboatcar]

1. ICE and CBP are endangering public safety

As citizens what are we supposed to do to defend ourselves? Roll over and take it?

[Moostache]

7. A study of our enemies in Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan is a useful playbook

Direct confrontation is silly. The citizens will not face down armed thugs in the streets in open combat. But forcing the government to become more and more and more extreme in their efforts to blame "the left" is an easy win. Millions of people in the streets and in non-violent opposition to this government's lawless, fascist moves is a start. Force them to jail us by the millions because we will not cooperate or fund or be part of their world if it means accepting ICE, accepting lawless invasions, accepting billionaire rulers and nothing for the rest of us.

It is time to think general strikes, massive sick outs, and yes sabotage of the infrastructure and movement of goods and services that these same billionaires NEED to survive themselves. Defund ICE? Cute slogan, but we need to Defund the Billionaires first.

If you shop at Wal-Mart or Amazon... if you drive a Nazi SUV... if you continue to fetishize Apple products... YOU are the problem as much as those shooting people in the face while dressed up as Cos-play Barbie's civilian gang.

Participation and ignorance are acceptance and tacit approval.

Shop local ONLY.
Avoid any discretionary spending that funds any billionaire.
Consume ONLY independent media.
Be ready to end capitalism from the inside out to end the funding (and thereby acceptance) of the existence of billionaires that do not care about us, will not ever protect us and want us to die faster so they can sit on ever larger golden toilets and thrones.

Fuck them all.

[Ocelot II]

2. Funders? Nobody is funding these protests. We're doing it for free.

Who could have funded this spontaneous demonstration last night? Just a bunch of left-wing anarchists exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly to protest the government's murder of an innocent citizen.

[cbabe]

5. They do everything for money. So they believe everyone is money-motivated.

[sop]

3. When I first scanned this headline I briefly thought the FBI was investigating ICE for shooting an innnocent woman,

but it's Patel, so the FBI is going after the people being shot for protesting.

[Ocelot II]

6. And the FBI has now decided that the state BCA will no longer have access to evidence

or be able to participate in the investigation, despite assurances yesterday that the federal and state agencies would conduct the investigation jointly.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Labelling "Terrorists"

As in "We the Peope" are terrorists per Ka$h Patel.

[Solly Mack]

8. Rumsfeld blamed cameras for torture. Patel is blaming the right to assembly/protest for an ICE agent

murdering Renee Good.

[pandr32]

9. He needs to go!

[mwmisses4289]

10. A congressperson has filed articles of impeachment against Noem;

is it time to consider them against Patel?

[walkingman]

11. I no longer trust the FBI. Our nation is being destroyed by these lunatics and their supporters.