Overview
- Activists assembled furniture, cones and other items to block Cedar Avenue near 32nd–34th streets, stopping vehicles and checking plates against a list they said flagged suspected ICE vehicles.
- Video from the scene shows officers earlier asking protesters to leave a path for emergency vehicles, then departing without dismantling the barricade.
- Daily Caller reporter Jorge Ventura says masked individuals shoved him, attempted to seize his phone and injured his hand while he filmed, with a photojournalist also targeted.
- The Minneapolis Police Department said Public Works, assisted by MPD, cleared the homemade barriers on Monday at about 2:30 p.m. CT to ensure neighborhood and emergency access.
- The confrontations unfold during sustained anti-ICE actions in the Twin Cities following two fatal agent-involved shootings in January, with activists describing the checkpoints as community defense.