RPH – ICE Out! Drop the Charges! An Interview with Isabel Lopez

For context, here's the other side of the story:

"Some people in the crowd engaged in legal protest activity. Lopez, as detailed below, obstructed, impeded, and assaulted federal agents and officers, in violation of federal law.  Lopez physically assaulted several agents and officers.  She punched, kicked, and shoved agents and officers.  Crowd members moved to restrain Lopez.  Even as they were doing so, Lopez kicked an FBI agent. Lopez continued to assault federal agents and officers.  As law enforcement attempted to depart the scene, Lopez threw a softball at the back of a deputy from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

On June 9, 2025, Lopez was charged by complaint with Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding Officers, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1).  When federal agents attempted to arrest Lopez, she punched an FBI agent in the head."

Stop playing the victim. If it wasn't for white european settlement you would still be out hunting buffalo for food.

24:10 Sometimes it's a hunch, sometimes it's luck. More and more, people assume that it'll happen because of behavior patterns with the state.

If you've never heard of it, and I doubt most people have, there was an incident called the "Memorial Day Massacre" in 1937. Striking workers were attacked by police, resulting in workers being murdered. There was a Paramount News reporter that just happened to be on site (it was a picnic, but it followed other violent events). They didn't know what was going to happen, they didn't think it would be all that exciting, and after getting it on film Paramount News withheld it to protect police (and avoid civil unrest). During court proceedings Paramount was ordered to release it, but they released an edited version that made the police look like the "good guys." They were ordered to release the full version again, and again they released an edited version that showed a little more. Eventually the full film came out and it vindicated the strikers….but by then the damage had been done by weeks of media coverage taking the side of the police and demonizing the workers, which pitted people against the workers and supporting the police.

People don't always go to protests and other events knowing something is going to happen. More and more it's become necessary to cover them "just in case," because like in the Seattle CHOP/CHAZ protests police start fights that they get away with, and only after video comes out that they were the instigators do people start to reconsider. That video more often than not gets buried by mainstream media covering things with a pro-police slant that shows the violence without how it started. And even though police have body cams these days, they know how to control what gets seen by how they position their bodies, which allows them to beat a compliant person while saying "stop resisting," and then point to the body cam footage and say "see? We were telling them to stop resisting. They were resisting. They said they weren't resisting, but you have to believe us because they lie and we're here to Serve and Protect. They forced us to do the thing."

If anything, I would say every event, every protest, every gathering, needs to be recorded, if for no other reason than to have evidence for those times when the police or "someone else" causes trouble. Because the narrative the police provide is too often taken as fact.

Shit… you can cry. I was crying. The way yall affirmed each other in struggle was beautiful.

Love from a New Afrikan in Tongva Gabrielino Land.

ICE agents behave like deputy Eric Cartman, if he had the protection of a mask.

I hope this will spark a greater movement both in scale and in scope. How can anyone call another person "illegal" when they are ruling over stolen land?