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FBI strategy memo on election violence raises questions about double standard between J6, BLM riots

When the FBI prepared on the eve of the 2020 presidential election for possible violence in case of a disputed election, it made no distinction between left and right-wing groups when it recommended prosecutions to deter illegal activity. 

Yet, months later, there was a disparity in how the FBI, the Justice Department, and local prosecutors were treating illegal activity during the breach of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, compared to the summer of 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.  

An FBI memo reported on by Just the News earlier this week shows the bureau’s Boston office led a tabletop exercise and culled open-source intelligence on the potential for violence from both left-leaning anarchists to right-leaning extremists. It recommended relying on undercover informants and aggressive prosecutions for minor crimes to keep tabs on potentially violent groups and deter them. 

90% of 2020 BLM protesters were not jailed, but 84.6% of J6 rioters convicted

The document raises new questions for congressional investigators about why the bureau failed to heed its own warnings ahead of the Capitol riot and whether it provides further evidence there was a double standard in federal prosecutions. 

News outlets have reported for years on the fact that a vast majority of cases against protesters who broke the law during the fiery and violent summer of 2020 were dropped, especially by localities. A 2021 analysis from The Guardian found that this happened in about 90% of cases across a dozen U.S. jurisdictions that experienced protests. 

In Houston, one of the epicenters of protests in Texas, about 93% of all charges brought were dropped, The Guardian reported. This is despite the fact that the demonstrators blocked a federal highway, threw objects at police officers, and damaged buildings. Eight officers were also injured. In Philadelphia, where protesters smashed windows, looted stores, and set fire to police cars, at least 95% of the arrests resulted in no prosecutions or dropped charges.

Many of these cases were handled by local prosecutors. In the more than 300 federal cases brought against those involved in the protests, fewer than half pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, the Associated Press found.  

Conversely, more than 1,500 individuals were arrested in connection with the Capitol riot, resulting in 1,270 total convictions–making that outcome about 80% of the cases–on the eve of President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon last year. That comes out to about 86%.

Federal prosecutors also used a controversial statute that allowed them to prosecute some of those who were charged with obstructing an official proceeding for interrupting the Jan. 6 congressional certification of the electoral college vote. The statute was also used in some of the charges levied against President Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in his case arguing Trump was directly responsible for the violence that day. 

That interpretation of the statute, which Republicans often pointed to as evidence of the double standard of aggressive prosecutions, was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court in June 2024. The high court ruled that the law only applied when a defendant prevented the use of “records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding.”

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Scathing report reveals Antifa-linked org passing out material to K-12 students: ‘Political revolution’

A newly unearthed training guidebook from the far-left activist group Sunrise Movement calls on both college and K-12 students to engage in monthly disruptions and “mass non-cooperation” as part of a coordinated effort to spark a “political revolution” across the United States.

The 25-page document, obtained by Defending Education, focuses on mobilizing youth against what it describes as a “regime” and a “system captured by billionaires,” urges students to walk out of classrooms and boycott businesses in an attempt to prove that the country cannot function without their cooperation.

“We’re not going to get there overnight, and we’re not here to get back to the status quo,” the guidebook says. “We’re here to win a political revolution. This is your guide to start winning at your school right now.”

Pushing back against ICE is a major theme in the document that appears to have been spread to students in Minnesota and across the country and has made that central pillar of its recent advocacy, framing the agency as an “occupying army” and a “personal gestapo” for the Trump administration. 

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Washington Mother Brutally Attacked by High School Student Mob During Anti-ICE Walkout, Police Do Nothing to Stop it 

A mother was brutally assaulted by a mob of high school students during an anti-ICE protest at Issaquah High School in Washington state.

The incident was captured on video and widely shared on social media.

On Monday morning, hundreds of students from Issaquah High School poured out of classrooms to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The victim, who has chosen to remain anonymous due to fears of retaliation, described the ordeal as completely unprovoked.

The woman, who reportedly wishes to remain anonymous, said she was simply in the area when students suddenly surrounded her, bumping into her, cursing, and pulling her hair as the crowd closed in.

“I just got assaulted,” she can be heard saying in the footage.

Students, many holding signs with messages like “I HATE ICE,” swarm the woman in a frenzy of pushing and shoving. The mob’s aggression escalates quickly, with the woman struggling to break free amid cheers and chants from the crowd.

Journalist Jonathan Choe interviewed the mother in the video and reports it was “totally unprovoked and the cops just watched it all go down without intervening.”

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Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters lose the plot as they throw sex toys at their own people in bizarre attack

Minneapolis anti-ICE rioters pelted dildos at a fellow protester in a mind-boggling attack days after Donald Trump pulled hundreds of feds from the liberal city. 

A mob of rambunctious demonstrators gathered in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Saturday – a month after Renee Good was shot during a confrontation with federal agents. 

The group was chanting against ICE while chucking glass bottles and sex toys at a line of guards protecting the property.

But the protesters’ anger was misdirected at one point, with their vile tactics being used against one of their own. 

A cluster of disrupters was filmed as they hurled fake penises at a man driving a dark blue pick-up truck near the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Saturday. 

Amid the chaos, the driver screamed at the relentless phallic-flingers: ‘Do you see my f*cking sign?’

He was referring to a large banner in the vehicle’s bed that read ‘NUREMBERG 2.0.’ The term is a likely reference to the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. 

From 1945 to 1949, the Allied powers prosecuted German Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. 

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‘You’re Next, N****r’: White Progs in Minneapolis Go Full Ku Klux Klan on Black ICE Agents

These individuals are driven by strong emotions and a toxic sense of self-righteousness, which has led some to believe they can attack police with impunity—something Renee Good and Alex Pretti learned the hard way—or hurl racist slurs at non-white people. These officers are professionals; they won’t leave the city or be provoked. Instead, you’ll be recognized for revealing the fundamental flaws within white Democrats, a group that has historically been rotten.

Minneapolis has been on fire since Good and Pretti were shot and killed by law enforcement for stupidly trying to impede their operations. They weren’t executed. But the deportations will continue, which means crazed white liberals calling black ICE agents the n-word will also become routine. What sick people—and this isn’t the first time. I didn’t know Candyland had moved north.

I don’t know what this is, folks. It’s a mess.

“You’re next n****r”—is that a threat, or some cheap historic throwback to when hunting parties were amassed to find escaped slaves? What arrogance you must have to think you’re so right that you have some pass to use the n-word as a white person. It’s not intimidation. It’s lunacy, and we’re all both shocked and chuckling inside. That’s all you got, you weak, pathetic, lonely, blue-haired freaks.

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Unhinged Leftists Hurl Racist Attacks on Non-White ICE Agents…Again

God, I’ve always disliked this line from leftists trying to force me into their unhinged political camp: if you’re not white, you must be on their side. First, this revelation shocks me—I didn’t realize I wasn’t white. I don’t care about that, you blue-haired, socially isolated people yelling into your phones all day. My life isn’t that bleak. I also won’t get so angry at differing opinions that I risk fighting police and getting shot in the face.  

But these white liberal losers, who apparently don’t have to work, were at it again, berating a non-white ICE officer.

I’m sure he knows he’s not white, you idiot. What does that matter, and why are you so obsessed with it? I mean, we know why, but you people truly are lower than scum. If you’re non-white, you must live your life in a certain way, says the white liberal. That’s inherently un-American. Sorry, not all of us subscribe to your woke, DEI acid-trip, left-wingers. Also, please keep lecturing about the hardships of the black, Asian, and Hispanic communities. No one knows that better than white wine-guzzling white progressives, who are overeducated, wealthy, and the representation of privilege. Again, I couldn’t care less, but these are your rules, and you’ve shoved them down our throats, so allow us to waterboard you with your illiberal nonsense that has all of us quality jobs, and you’ll get the Renee Good treatment.  

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Anti-ICE Agitators Completely Lose Their Minds After Black ICE Agent ‘Misgenders’ One of Their Fellow Comrades

ICE officers are not letting their incredibly thankless job cause them to lose their sanity when dealing with unhinged anti-ICE activists. In fact, it is helping show the true colors of these vile agitators.

Earlier this week, independent journalist Kim “Katie” USA shared a video showing deranged protesters in Minneapolis harassing ICE agents doing their jobs before the footage takes a hilarious turn.

The video opens with the agitators dropping a series of F-bombs and taunting ICE agents. Two are even seen approaching a car, taunting ICE agents over the last month’s fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Then a person, possibly transgender, starts following around a black ICE agent, pestering him with a series of gotcha questions:

“How does it feel abducting people from their family? Is that good?”

“Does that make you feel good about yourself?”

“Is that your kind of energy that we should rip people apart from their families?”

After hearing the last question, the ICE agent turned around and asked the agitator a question that caught all the protesters off guard and sent them into a wild frenzy:

“Are you a man?!”

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Supposedly Autistic Woman’s Tale of Being Abused and Arrested by ICE Officers for No Reason Blows Up in Her Face When This Damning Footage Emerges

A left-wing activist’s ‘gutwrenching’ testimony about getting arrested by ICE agents last month has so spectacularly backfired that she might find herself in legal hot water.

Aliyah Rahman, an American citizen and allegedly autistic, told a congressional panel on Tuesday she was on her way to an appointment with Hennepin County’s Traumatic Brain Injury Center last month when she encountered ICE agents supposedly blocking the road and had no way of getting around them.

She then said she was forced to pull into a blocked intersection after an ICE agent allegedly yelled, “Move, I will break your f***ing window!”

Rahman went on to say she received conflicting threats from agents, which confused her. The agents then busted her window and dragged her out of the car.

When Rahman told the agents she was disabled, one agent supposedly replied, “Too late.”

She next described her supposed pain while the cops pulled her away, and then claimed without evidence that she was denied access to medical care.

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Minneapolis Viral ‘Relationship Anarchist’ Anti-ICE Agitator Elizabeth Rose Arrested for Ramming Federal Agents’ Vehicle During ICE Crackdown 

Viral Minneapolis anti-ICE agitator Elizabeth Rose has been arrested and charged with assaulting federal agents after she allegedly rammed an agent’s vehicle with her own.

Rose, 42, who proudly identifies as a “relationship anarchist” practicing nonmonogamous relationships, allegedly tailed and crashed her vehicle into a car occupied by Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection agents on January 21.

The activist went viral last month for a video about her dating desires.

“I am 42… I am a relationship anarchist… I am on the lookout for somebody who right now will be able to call and say hey, get in the passenger seat and let’s go f*k some sh-t up,” she says in the video.

She is seen getting dressed in Carhartt overalls, a keffiyeh scarf, safety goggles, a gas mask, and ear protection, framing her activism as a call to arms against what she described as ICE “occupying” Minneapolis by “going door-to-door and kidnapping people from their homes… schools… churches.”

The incident occurred amid “Operation Metro Surge,” the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants in the Twin Cities.

According to court documents, agitators in multiple vehicles began following a team of federal agents. Rose reportedly blocked their path on a narrow street, ignored commands to move, and then reversed her car into another agent-occupied vehicle that had arrived to assist.

A video of the incident was posted on social media by Rose. It does not show the impact but shows her reversing into the vehicle and touching it when she stops.

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Anti-ICE Resistance Manuals and Training Discovered at Minnesota Schools Receiving Federal Funding

Minnesota ICE Watch, the organization that Renee Good and her wife were members of, distributed a document known as the “De-Arrest Primer,” which instructs activists on how to physically interfere with law enforcement officers during arrests. The manual provides detailed guidance on pulling detainees from officers’ grips, pushing and pulling officers, breaking holds, and opening law enforcement vehicles to free suspects.

The manual also teaches the use of coordinated chanting to create confusion and overwhelm officers during active arrests, as well as surrounding officers until they release detainees.

The guide openly acknowledges that these actions may constitute criminal offenses but argues that the risk is justified. Each successful interference is described as a “micro-intifada,” framed as a tactic meant to spread, replicate, and inspire wider disruption. The manual claims these methods originated in pro-Palestinian campus protests and presents them as a model for broader resistance activity.

While no single formal publisher is identified, the manual appears to originate from broader activist and radical networks that promote direct physical interference with law enforcement. It has circulated widely through Instagram and other activist communication channels and has been used in training individuals described as “constitutional observers” or “ICE watchers.”

Minnesota ICE Watch reposted the manual in June, prior to the 2026 surge in anti-ICE activity, and linked it to training sessions focused on disrupting arrests.

Mainstream media coverage has frequently described ICE Watch activity as “nonviolent observation,” omitting the physical interference tactics detailed in the manual. The document, however, is clear evidence of organized agitation and deliberate instruction in confronting law enforcement.

Numerous anti-ICE training handbooks and manuals are being produced and circulated in the United States. Some are linked to specific anti-ICE resistance groups that also provide training, organize protests, and conduct patrols. These include organizations such as COPAL MN (Comunidades Organizando El Poder y la Acción Latina), the Immigrant Defense Network (IDN), and related groups.

Much of the training, organizing, and distribution of anti-ICE resistance has taken place at schools receiving public funds, raising questions about whether groups instigating actions against the government should be allowed to receive taxpayer money. Furthermore, mainstream media have attempted to present the anti-ICE resistance training at schools as a reaction to the Renee Good shooting. However, many of these groups were already active at schools prior to the January 7, 2026 shooting.

Because of the deployment of nearly 3,000 ICE agents to the area in late 2025, several parent-teacher groups at the school attended by Renee Good’s son had already formed volunteer “safety committees.”

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