00:00You're impeding an operation, you're impeding traffic, look at this.
00:03You're impeding traffic, you're going real slow.
00:04If you keep following me, following us, you're going to be arrested, all right?
00:07You should arrest me now because I will continue to follow you onto the highway to the 42nd Street.
00:11I will continue to follow you. You can arrest me now.
00:15These are the ICE commuters, a decentralized network of thousands of local volunteers
00:20crowdsourcing information about the movement of ICE agents to monitor their activities and arrests
00:27and to alert the local community amid a deadly crackdown.
00:31They have come together in this system of sharing information
00:35and trying to keep their neighborhoods and their communities safe.
00:39There's obviously been concerns that people who have been doing that,
00:42like Rene Good and Alex Pretty, were actually killed.
00:46Right now we're patrolling for ICE. We're in uphill Minneapolis.
00:49I've been done this 21 days in a row.
00:52We just drive around looking for cars that we think are ICE.
00:54You can usually pick them out.
00:55We have sort of a rapid response line that lets us identify them.
01:00And then you follow them and you basically follow them to see what they do.
01:06As we're driving around, you can hear people honking their horns.
01:10You can see others in high visibility vests doing foot patrols and blowing their whistles.
01:15All efforts, they say, to keep their neighborhoods and the targeted immigrant population safe.
01:21But, you know, for instance, any given time in my neighborhood,
01:25there's probably 20 people in car patrols, another probably 100 or so walking from the street.
01:30There's hundreds of people in the rapid response lines.
01:32And this is one of, you know, 15 neighborhoods we have, you know,
01:36and it's one of the smaller ones probably.
01:37And so we have, you know, all over the city, we have deaths going on.
01:41Or you want to film them so they can't do anything without, you know, it being documented.
01:44Because when they operate, they're often very, very aggressive, very violent.
01:48They'll abduct people kind of without asking their names or anything.
01:52And so you want to be sure that we have eyes on all of that.
01:53We have a record of all of that.
01:54And then they don't particularly like being observed.
01:59They kind of all work in secret.
02:00So it acts as a restraint on them.
02:02We think it has worked pretty effectively to act as a restraint on them.
02:05They clearly seem frustrated with it.
02:07You can see these guys running up here.
02:11Everyone in the neighborhood knows about this car right now.
02:14They may be getting more people to come or something.
02:16They've done that for me once.
02:18But honestly, sometimes they just act weird.
02:20I don't think they quite know what to do.
02:22Yeah, they're really going to do that on length, too.
02:24Like, maybe this is not the spot to do it.
02:26Yeah, it's going to be bad.
02:28Yeah, what's up?
02:29Are you following me?
02:30I am following you.
02:31I have a constitutional right to do it.
02:32I'm going to keep following you.
02:33So if you're arresting for following you, maybe as well do it right now.
02:35You're going to be your only warning.
02:36You don't follow us.
02:37You impede an operation, all right?
02:38I will continue to follow you.
02:39I have a constitutional right to do so.
02:40You impede an operation.
02:42You impede traffic.
02:42Look at this.
02:43You're impeding traffic.
02:44You're going real slow.
02:44If you keep following me, following us, you're going to be arrested.
02:47You should arrest me now because I will continue to follow you onto the highway to the 40 seconds.
02:51I will continue to follow you.
02:53You can arrest me now.
02:56Oh, they're not going to do it?
02:57No.
03:05It's me.
03:05I'm going to tell them I'm going to follow them to the 42nd Street exit, which is what I'm going to do.
03:23And then I'm going to turn off.
03:24I love that accent.
03:25It's so funny, too.
03:27It's like we stopped you to get an accent.
03:28I had more of an accent than anyone I talked to the other day.
03:31It's just ridiculous.
03:32I'm going to follow you on the freeway.
03:34It's ridiculous.
03:42No one's living here.
03:44Yep.
03:44It doesn't appear like you.
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