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RECENTLY POSTED BY ProPublica:  A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. excerpt: A crew from FRONTLINE and ProPublica was filming, too. The man being questioned, a U.S. citizen named Christian Molina, told ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson that federal agents had followed him and rammed his car: “They looked at me and they decided to pull me over for no reason,” Molina said. What happened next can be seen in footage from FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s new documentary  “Caught in the Crackdown.”   Someone threw a snowball in the direction of the agents — and one of them responded by tossing a tear gas canister into the crowd.  “You’re tear-gassing a fucking neighborhood,” a protester yelled. “People live here.” As the toxic haze rose, an agent pepper-sprayed protesters and a news photographer at close range. Another agent fired pepper balls into the crowd, hitting Thompson three times. One shot struck him above the right eye....

  Minnesota Rapper Violently Detained by ICE: ‘I Assumed I Was Going to Die’ Twin Cities artist Nur-D talks was tackled to the ground while peacefully protesting the death of Alex Pretti, but remains dedicated: “We will not stop fighting” By  Jonathan Bernstein January 30, 2026 Local artist Nur-D, a.k.a Matthew Allen, moments before being pinned to the ground by ICE agents. Brandon Bell/Getty Images When Matthew Allen woke up on Saturday, Jan. 24, he was looking forward to running errands. Allen, better known in the Twin Cities as the musician and rapper Nur-D, had spent the previous day with thousands of Minnesotans marching on the streets in -15º weather to  protest  the ongoing violent federal occupation of the state. Now the weekend had arrived, and Allen woke up excited to spend his day shopping for window blinds and dog food with his wife. “I was planning on having a regular day,” he says. But soon after getting up, Allen did what millions of Americans did that...