(ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA) – The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Minnesota AFL-CIO are slamming a grand jury indictment of 15 Minnesotans for opposing President Donald Trump’s “Operation Metro Surge” that targeted Immigrants in the Twin Cities. Daniel Rosen, Trump’s U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, told reporters the 15, whom he characterized as members of “Antifa,” were “charged not for what they said but what they did” in protesting the mass roundups by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Border Patrol agents. AFT President Randi Weingarten, a New York City Civics Teacher who also holds a law degree, virtually called that statement a lie - though she didn’t use that exact word. The top count provides details of what it calls “a conspiracy to impede or injure Federal Officers carrying out their duties” - i.e. the Immigration roundups. No Officers were injured and few were impeded, the details in the 94-page indictment show. Other counts charge the protesters, who tried to block ICE Agents from jailing people in the Federal Whipple Building, with posting inflammatory videos on Instagram, following an Agent from the building to his home in Hudson, Wisconsin, kicking and denting an ICE car, side-swiping another Agent’s vehicle on the road, and knocking a third Agent’s notes out of his hand.

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