Overview
- Viral videos on Reddit and X capture masked DHS and ICE officers surrounding Rob Potylo, known as Robby Roadsteamer, and taking him to the ground during a Minneapolis protest.
- The confrontation unfolded during ongoing demonstrations over the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.
- DHS has characterized Good’s shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, a description echoed publicly by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
- Federal presence in Minnesota has grown, with one report citing more than 2,500 agents statewide and activist accounts describing door-to-door operations in St. Paul.
- Potylo is a Boston-based performer who frequently attends protests in a giraffe costume and was previously arrested by federal agents in Portland last October.