Cops Tear Down Anti-ICE Road Blockade After Reporter Assaulted

Police allowed anti-deportation activists to maintain a road blockadein Minneapolis, Minnesota, until 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Jorge Ventura was assaulted nearby.

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) on Monday cleared traffic cones and other debris that the mob used to direct traffic and deter 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles from Cedar Ave., footage from the left-leaning X account Minneapolis Spring shows. News of the blockade first broke on Sunday, but it remained standing by Monday, when Ventura was harassed and shoved into a car by masked men for investigating it.

“The Public Works team — with assistance from the — cleared debris and homemade roadblocks,” the MPD said in an email Monday night, hours after the DCNF asked how it would respond to the vigilantes controlling traffic and attacking a journalist.

“Given the high-traffic and high-speed block of roadways on Cedar Ave., the City cleared the streets to ensure public safety for the neighborhoods and emergency vehicles,” the MPD said. They were cleared by about 2:30 central time, the MPD added.