Shocking New Video Proves ICE Lied About Minneapolis Shooting
The U.S. and Israel bombed Iran’s top university, the Holocaust Museum quietly rewrote history to appease Trump, and ICE deported domestic violence victims back to their abusers
Good evening. I’m Ryan Rose, and this is AlterNet America.
A new video from Minneapolis shows that ICE agents lied under oath about a shooting. The U.S. and Israel bombed Iran’s top university. The Holocaust Museum quietly rewrote history to avoid angering the president. And ICE is deporting domestic violence victims back to the people trying to kill them.
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Never-Before-Seen Video Exposes ICE Agents’ Lies
The government said he beat a federal officer with a snow shovel and a broomstick for several minutes. The video says otherwise.
City-owned camera footage released today shows a confrontation lasting about 12 seconds between an ICE agent and two Venezuelan immigrants outside their duplex. It contradicts the agent’s claim that he was beaten with a shovel and broom before firing his weapon.
The footage shows no sustained attack. In fact, a shovel was tossed aside before the struggle began.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has opened a criminal probe into whether the two ICE agents lied under oath about the events of the shooting. Prosecutors previously filed charges against the two men before reviewing the footage, which the police chief says would have shown the agents were “lying.
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The DOJ later requested the charges be dismissed with prejudice, writing in a motion that “newly discovered evidence is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit.”
This is now the fifth ICE shooting in which the government’s initial account has been contradicted by video evidence. At some point, this stops being a pattern of mistakes and starts being a pattern.
U.S. and Israel Bomb Iran’s Top University, Killing 34 (Including Children)
The administration that declared war on elite universities at home has found a new approach — just bomb the ones abroad.
At least 34 people have been killed, including six children, as the United States and Israel carried out massive attacks across Iran on Monday. The strikes targeted Sharif University in Tehran, one of Iran’s leading scientific institutions often compared to MIT, as well as residential areas.
Iran’s Ministry of Science and Technology said at least 30 universities have been hit since the beginning of the war on February 28. Mohammad Reza Aref, Iran’s first vice president and a Stanford-educated engineer, called the attack “a symbol of Trump’s madness and ignorance.”
The attacks followed Trump’s expletive-laden threat on Truth Social demanding that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants and bridges. Iran has warned it will respond “in kind” to any attacks on its infrastructure.
The administration that promised to end the war before it even took office is now in week six of it, and the only deadline anyone’s meeting is the one for the next airstrike.
The Holocaust Museum Is Removing Content About American Racism
An institution built on the lesson of “never again” is quietly practicing “maybe not right now.”
In the first year of Trump’s second term, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly removed from its website educational resources about American racism and canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.”
The changes included removing a webpage called “Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow,” which had provided lesson plans exploring connections between American racism and Nazi racial policy, and making a 2018 video featuring a Holocaust survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama unlisted on YouTube.
A civic education workshop titled “Fragility of Democracy and the Rise of the Nazis” was renamed, with a senior museum staff member explaining in an internal email that the word “fragility” had raised concerns about how it might be perceived “in the current climate.”
The museum’s spokesperson says the Trump administration never requested any changes. Former employees say the museum made them anyway. A museum designed to warn the world about the dangers of self-censorship is, by all appearances, self-censoring.
The lesson of the Holocaust has always been: don’t wait to see where this goes. Someone should tell the museum.
ICE Is Deporting Domestic Violence Victims. Their Abusers Get to Stay.
The Trump administration has two options for immigrant women experiencing domestic violence: jail or deportation.
In January, DHS rolled back protections that kept immigration agents from entering “sensitive locations,” including domestic violence shelters and hospitals. This has caused some victims to think twice before seeking medical help, moving into a shelter, or seeking an order of protection.
The result is exactly what you’d expect. A man in Utah set his home on fire, killing himself, his partner Jaimar Bravo Gil, and their children. Bravo Gil’s relatives said her partner had a history of violence, but she had kept silent about most of the abuse for fear of being deported.
Congress created the U visa program specifically to protect immigrant survivors who report crimes to law enforcement. Project 2025 called for the total elimination of both U and T visas, concluding that “victimization should not be a basis for an immigration benefit.”
They’re not just anti-immigrant. They’re pro-abuser.
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