Minneapolis Protests and Policing

Fox News reports that Marcia Howard, president of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators and a prominent activist at George Floyd Square, told Al Jazeera in an interview aired last week that she and others use encrypted Signal chats, plate‑running and informal patrols to monitor and resist ICE and Border Patrol operations in Minneapolis–St. Paul, and that "our bosses" and unnamed "elected officials" are in those chats. Howard described 'nanas,' coaches, 'soccer moms' and teachers arming themselves with whistles and phones to watch for federal agents near schools and neighborhoods and said participants are not ashamed of these activities. She accused ICE and Border Patrol of escalating "brutality" and "declared war on my state" and likened them to slave catchers and the KKK, rhetoric that plays into the wider political fight over Trump‑era interior enforcement and has been amplified on social media by both supporters and critics. The union did not provide an immediate response to Fox’s inquiries, and the article does not name the officials allegedly in the chats or document specific unlawful acts, leaving open legal questions about where vigilant monitoring ends and obstruction of federal law enforcement begins.