Hours on a Roof, in Subzero
Masked federal agents wearing ICE vests, refusing to identify themselves or present warrants, cordoned off a Minneapolis construction site and trapped two men on the roof for hours in subzero temperatures; one was eventually taken away by ambulance.
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Masked federal agents wearing ICE vests cordoned off a Minneapolis residential construction site, refused to identify themselves or present a warrant, and trapped two construction workers on the roof for hours in subzero temperatures. A protest crowd gathered. Bystanders carried heating pads, a jacket, and food; the agents prevented them from reaching the men on the roof.
A reporter at the scene counted at least thirty federal agents who took rotating shifts retreating to vehicles to stay warm — a temperature accommodation extended to the masked agents but not to the men they had cornered above. The agents eventually left; an ambulance removed one of the men from the roof.
The episode is at least the third documented case of federal immigration agents besieging construction workers on private residential job sites; comparable incidents had occurred in Chicago in October and outside New Orleans earlier in the year.