Police are arresting dozens of peaceful clergy protesting at the MSP Airport right now

[Blue Owl]

The live feed is down at the moment while they recharge the video equipment (it's like -25F outside) but a row consisting of dozens -- likely a hundred or more -- peaceful clergy members from Minnesota churches are sitting down in front of the main MSP airport entrance, reading aloud the names of innocent citizens who have been arrested and harassed by ICE, singing songs of hope and brotherhood/sisterhood, and cheered on by hundreds of airport workers.

It's surreal -- police arresting these peaceful, goodwill ambassadors while the criminals of ICE illegally terrorize the streets.

It feels like a turning moment. EVERYBODY knows these clergy members are speaking the truth.

So far the demonstration and arrests have been peaceful -- no violence on either side other than the police and airport security arresting each minister one by one and putting them into school busses.

But it is becoming crystal clear who the enemy is.

[hlthe2b]

1. WHO is arresting them? MSP POLICE or ICE?

I can't watch now. Are they obstructing traffic or people within the airport?

[Blue Owl]

2. It looked like a smaller group of airport police, I don't think it was ICE

So far everything has been peaceful and ICE isn't peaceful when they make arrests -- they use maximum force and violence.

[CanonRay]

4. Two UU Minister friends are there now

from Wyoming and Massachusetts. I wonder if they are arrested yet.

[Blue Owl]

5. Tell them I will forever regard them as HEROES

[surfered]

6. How will the Evangelicals react?

[OGBuzz]

7. Just imagine what must be in those Epstein Files.

To justify in his own mind this kind of cruelty and injustice. And then there is Venezuela, Greenland, his willingness to blow up NATO, and just this morning he said he has an "armada" heading towards Iran. Anything to keep those Epstein Files out of the headlines. Maybe they should be called the Trumpstein Files.
And still 90% Republican voters support him.

[liberalhistorian]

8. I am a Christian clergy/chaplain

in Minnesota near the Twin Cities, where I graduated from seminary several years ago. Social justice work was and remains an integral aspect of our seminary training and coursework and I know several of the clergy in attendance. They are principled and resilient in those principles and determined to be active in the resistance despite the cost and to lead their congregations in the same work. ICE and the DHS are not going to break them!

[H2O Man]

9. Recommended.

This is good. I respect religious leaders taking action.