A 'disturbing' lack of empathy in Minneapolis under Trump's ICE surge

After the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland travelled to Carlton county, Minnesota – one of the state’s counties that voted for Trump in 2024. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 For the latest episode of Anywhere but Washington, Laughland met with Brad Kohler, a Republican candidate running for Minnesota governor, and Republican voters. Laughland confronted Kohler on racist comments about Somali immigrants in Minnesota, and spoke with him and other voters about the killing of Renee Good. This episode was filmed before Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents on 24 January. The occupation of Minneapolis: resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' | Anywhere but Washington ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFBvYve92_M #minneapolis #minnesota #ice #donaldtrump #trump #reneenicolegood #reneegood #iceshooting #usa #trump #donaldtrump

Minneapolis resident violently arrested by ICE: 'Their goal is to intimidate you'

In the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good, Patty O’Keefe became one of thousands of citizen observers patrolling Minneapolis to track ICE activities. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 Just days after Good’s killing, O’Keefe told Guardian reporter Oliver Laughland about her experience of being arrested and detained by ICE. Laughland travelled to Minneapolis for the latest episode of Anywhere But Washington to speak with community members like O’Keefe and better understand their fight to defend their neighbors from violence and intimidation by ICE. Follow the link to watch the episode in full ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFBvYve92_M #ice #minnesota #minneapolis #trump #donaldtrump #reneegood #reneenicolegood #iceshooting

This photographer was tackled by ICE – and threw his camera to save it

'It’s important to see what’s going on – what’s really going on”. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 That’s what Pierre Lavie said after fellow photographer John Abernathy was taken down by federal agents at a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 15 January. John Abernathy says he couldn’t breathe after being pushed to the floor and having tear gas canisters deployed near him, and that he was afraid of what would happen to his camera – and more importantly the images on it – if he were arrested. He decided to throw his camera and phone towards a photographer he had never met before – Pierre Lavie – because the images of the protests “deserve to be seen”. The Department of Homeland Security told CNN Abernathy had been arrested for obstructing pedestrian and vehicle traffic on federal property. Abernathy says he spotted what he believed to be “far-right agitators” holding bear spray canisters, which he grabbed from one of them and threw away. When he was taken down, Abernathy says officers told him that it was because he had “bear sprayed his [own] people”, and that they had a video – which they refused to show him. Abernathy, who suffered chemical burns in his eyes and wounds from pepper bullets, is aware his experience could have been a lot worse. “I didn't have any worry of being sent to another country.” The Minneapolis-based photographer has covered protests in the past, including Black Lives Matter in 2020. But he says the violence from government agents recently is “a different type of aggression”, like nothing he has seen there before. Protests have sprung up in Minneapolis after an ICE surge in the state, and have grown further since the killing of Renee Good, an unarmed woman shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month. “A lot of people are very fearful, but the community here is quite amazing,” says Abernathy. A “no work, no school, no shopping” blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions on Friday, whose demands include that ICE leave Minnesota and the officer who killed Good be legally held accountable. Find out more via the link ► https://ift.tt/cKxuSJz #ice #minnesota #minneapolis #iceraids #iceagents #media #press

The lost their homes in the LA wildfires – now they're fighting climate gentrification

Within two days of Ellen Williams and her family losing their four homes in the LA megafires, real estate investors began calling. But she is fighting back against climate gentrification. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 As investors swoop in and try to pick up severely damaged properties across areas devastated by last year’s fires, Williams is resisting their offers and sticking to her family’s plan to return to Altadena. But she knows that other longtime residents can’t withstand the financial pressure that threatens to reshape her hometown. Her message to the investors is clear: “How dare you? Within days of people losing their homes you want to give them an offer,” she told the Guardian. “We’re still processing, yet you want to put a value on land.” #lawildfires #lafires #losangeles #altadena #usa #climategentrification #climatecrisis #black #latino

How Ukraine is surviving winter without power after Russian attacks

People feel like the ‘Russians are trying to freeze them’, said Guardian’s Senior international reporter Peter Beaumont, who is in Kyiv where temperatures are expected to fall to -20C during the night. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 Many residents are forced to use emergency shelters to warm up and use electricity after a large-scale Russian attack on the capital on 9 January damaged energy facilities. Hundreds of homes have been left without power or heating after the strikes. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Russia deliberately waited for freezing weather to make things worse for the Ukrainian people, and this was “a cynical Russian terror specifically against civilians.” Moscow gave no immediate response. #ukraine #ukrainewar #winter #russia #weather

'Don't take the smuggler route': how gangs punish migrants entering Europe

On the border between Serbia and Hungary, the Guardian's Ashifa Kassam speaks to a group of migrants making the journey to Europe. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 Speaking under condition of anonymity, they tell her that smuggling gangs beat and torture migrants in order to extort money from them. Their advice to young people in their homelands is to keep studying, work hard and not to undertake the same journey. Watch the full film ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffeggLgyNk #migrants #immigration #aslyumseekers #refugees #europe

The Los Angeles wildfires devastated the city. Here's what happened next

It’s been a year of recovery and reckoning in Los Angeles since the unprecedented wildfires erupted in the parched southern California hillsides and spread into the surrounding suburbs with shocking ferocity, killing 31 people. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 While rebuilding efforts are underway, progress has been slow. Thousands of displaced Angelenos remain in limbo. Meanwhile, city officials, researchers, non-profits and new community groups combed through the horrors to puzzle together what went wrong, after the firestorm overwhelmed municipal water systems and outpaced elite firefighting crews, while evacuations slowed to a crawl along winding roads. As the issues that defined the disaster and its recovery come into sharper focus, given the lack of coordination from federal agencies hollowed out by the Trump administration, the steep financial cost of rebuilding and the ever-growing threat of the climate crisis, one urgent question looms: what can be done to stop another from striking in the future? The senior climate reporter and extreme weather correspondent for Guardian US, Gabrielle Canon, visited the worst-hit areas a year after the wildfire hit. Watch to find out more about what the affected areas look like now, and follow the link to hear the stories of three LA wildfire victims on how they survived the horror - and what came next ► https://ift.tt/klOfWPN #losangeleswildfires #lawildfires #californiawildfires #wildfires #climatecrisis #climatechange