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A tenant union sit-in in Mpls (noted in the post above) comes months after the union formed to help renters get repairs & accountability for the property's safety violations.

October report: IPG-Owned MPLS Apartment Properties Rack Up 104 Major Safety Violations, Leaves Residents in Disarray
IPG-Owned MPLS Apartment Properties Rack Up 104 Major Safety Violations, Leaves Residents in Disarray - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN — If a tenant comes knocking to pay rent, that’s usually a door worth opening. But when Mike Brown approached the office of property manager Tina Johnson, she didn’t answer. Instead, t...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
NEW: On Tuesday morning, locals in Minneapolis confronted ICE agents on N. 21st Ave. and N. Oliver Ave.

The pre-dawn raid captured in part on video shows a handful of heavily armed agents detaining Susan Tincher, a 55 y/o white American, who was observing.

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ICE Arrests Observer, Maces Press & Detains People as Agents are Confronted Across Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT
ICE agents arrested an observer during an early morning raid in Minneapolis and maced press in afternoon actions on Dec. 9.
unicornriot.ninja
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Nick Benson noted that certain “crowd-sourced sites like adsb.lol, which aren’t beholden to FAA privacy regulations” help provide a level of transparency.

GlobalX Air, Eastern Air Express, and Denver Air Connection were a few of the airlines that ICE was using for flights out of MSP, said Benson.
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT
Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.
unicornriot.ninja
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Nick Benson said he noticed two changes earlier this year — deportation flights started using a dummy callsign to avoid being tracked and “most of the deportation fleet had been added to the FAA’s privacy list, which hides them from trackers like Flight Aware and Flight Radar 24.”
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT
Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.
unicornriot.ninja
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport

Over the past several months, Nick Benson, who goes by ottergoose on reddit, has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online, including to reddit’s r/minnesota board.
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT
Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.
unicornriot.ninja
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis

The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 “criminal illegal aliens” so far, six from Mexico, five from Somalia and one from El Salvador.

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ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT
ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
unicornriot.ninja
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“A convoy of DHS vans will arrive” and unload people before shackling and inspecting them and directing them “to hobble up the steps onto the aircraft.”

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Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT
Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.
unicornriot.ninja
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NEW: Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport

“ICE agents would disembark from the airplane and unload bags of shackles from the cargo hold … seeing the chains that would soon be confining my neighbors, binding their hands together at their waist and then down between their ankles.”
Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT
Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.
unicornriot.ninja
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM