MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge ordered federal deportation agents to respect the right of citizens to protest. Protesting and to do so in public is a constitutionally guaranteed right of citizenship — a civil right, said Judge Kate Menendez. The judge ruled in a fast-track case filed b by Minnesota activists. The activists listed a pattern of violent aggression. The aggression included ICE lobbing tear gas at protesters, beatings and physical assaults, and the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good. Judge Menendez was specific that Trump agents cannot detain drivers and passengers in vehicles when there is no reasonable suspicion they are obstructing or interfering with the officers. Safely following agents “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the judge said. Menendez also barred agents from arrest ig people without probable cause or reasonable suspicion the person has committed a crime or was obstructing or interfering with the activities of officers. Menendez meanwhile has other cases on her Minnesota docket.
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Whipple federal building. The largest Minnesota citizen protests have been at the regional headquarters of the U.S. Homeland Security Department at Fort Snellling at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers south of Minneapolis. The fortress is the control center for massive Trump round-ups of immigrants for deportation. The Whipple building has been a busy place. In response to citizen resistance, Trump has ordered successive waves of federal agents for Minnesota crackdowns. Their number has reached 3,000 — four times more than the city police departments of Minneapolis and St. Paul combined,
Menendez. Minneapolis-based federal judge whose docket includes charges of heavy-handed Trump tactics.