Fifteen Twin Cities-area individuals have been federally charged in connection with their alleged involvement in conspiracies to impede or injure federal officers.
The charges were announced during a press conference Tuesday by U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen against alleged members and associates of Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN), and include multiple counts of interstate stalking, interstate threats, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, multiple counts of assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property.
DAMN is comprised of members from several sub-groups, such as the Black Cat Worker’s Collective, Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club, and other organizations, Rosen said in a corresponding press release.
The press release explained that DAMN is an organization dedicated and committed to direct action against federal law and immigration enforcement. Direct action refers to disruptive and obstructive tactics used by participants to forcibly challenge, block, or stop immigration raids, detentions, and deportations.
DAMN describes itself as “a decentralized coalition of working-class people engaged in various forms of community defense against the current Federal Occupation happening within the wider metro area, and against state and a far-right violence more broadly.” DAMN also trains its members in the use of shields against law enforcement, surveillance, event planning, role differentiation, and rapid mass mobilization against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, the press release said.
Among the 15 charged was Kyle Wagner, a self-described “Antifa” member who has been in custody for months after being arrested earlier this year after repeatedly posting threats and violent rhetoric aimed at federal agents on social media.
At the time of Tuesday’s press conference, Rosen said that 12 of the newly charged individuals had been arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and two others were still at large, in addition to Wagner already in custody.
Rosen highlighted one of Wagner’s profanity-laced videos posted online in January where Wagner called his followers to arms to fight against “literal f–king Nazi gunmen,” and told them to meet up near 26th and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis.
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Rosen said that DAMN participants exploited and infiltrated lawful protests in order to carry out its unlawful direct actions against ICE and federal operations.
DAMN members held meetings on a regular basis and practiced “operational security” or “OPSEC,” according to Rosen. For example, DAMN members collected cellphones prior to meetings to prevent recordings, Rosen said.
Rosen said that on Jan. 23 and March 1, DAMN members organized and participated in direct actions against federal and local law enforcement, which included deployment of “hard” and “soft” blockades against federal law and immigration enforcement as well as against Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies during both of the direct actions. DAMN successfully shut down operations at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during both direct actions, according to Rosen.
DAMN members used vehicles, trailers, debris, and homemade impediments like shields and Czech hedgehogs during blockades, the charges explain.
The press release said that DAMN members also engaged in “commuting” tactics, which included identifying, following, surveilling, harassing, and confronting federal immigration enforcement with the goal of preventing, hindering, delaying, and impeding the enforcement of federal immigration law.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said DAMN members used the Whipple Watch Signal group chat, which facilitated the identification of federal immigration and law enforcement vehicles and documented identifying information, such as license plate numbers, in databases. The databases include information like whether a vehicle has been identified as belonging to federal law enforcement, when it was last seen, how many times it was seen, the kinds of activities it was engaged in, if it was in a caravan, and if someone saw federal agents with tactical gear inside, all to help determine how aggressive the response to that particular vehicle should be, according to the press release.
DAMN members used the information and intelligence produced by the Whipple Watch and other Signal group chats to target, harass, and confront federal immigration and law enforcement officers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Once someone relayed information about a federal immigration or law enforcement officer’s location, “dispatchers” relayed “verified” information to “commuters,” who deployed to the identified area to interfere with, prevent, hinder, delay, impede, and directly confront federal immigration enforcement, including “de-arresting” people who federal law enforcement had arrested, the charges allege.
The following defendants are named in the DAMN indictment:
- Isaac Auman Sant, also known as “Isaac Dalto” and “Ike,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer and Interstate Stalking.
- Emmett James Doyle, also known as “Plotnikov,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Cameron Kennedy, also known as “Cam,” “Olive Knite,” and “Knite,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Callum Robinet, also known as “Juliet K,” “Juliet,” and “Cal,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Erik Davis, also known as “Errico,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Brian Stillwell Apland, also known as “Tiny,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Kyle Wagner, also known as “Kaos,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer, Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence, and Interstate Threats.
- Hannah Margaret Van De Water Davis, also known as “Gabriel Van De Water” and “Nube,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Treasure Cay Thoreson, also known as “Schatzi,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Nathan Junho Kim, also known as “Moon Bear,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Alec Stewart, also known as “Mac,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Douglas Misterek, also known as “Doug” and “D Munny Big Dog Orf Orf,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- Dustin Scott Beisell, also known as “Sparky,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.
- William Morgan, also known as “Willow” and “Willow Tree,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer, Interstate Stalking, Assault on a Federal Officer, and Destruction of Government Property.
- Natasha Rakotz, also known as “Anuran,” is charged with Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer and Assault on a Federal Officer.
The U.S. Attorney’s press release described that Robinet, Morgan, Sant, and Kennedy took part at various times in an “Anarchist Speaking Tour” in other U.S. cities earlier this year, during which they described themselves as anarchists and detailed how they carried out coordinated blockade and harassment missions.
A Facebook post from Kennedy in February was also highlighted, in which Kennedy appeared to condemn peaceful protest as a “comfortable Disneyland white liberals lie” and insist that violence and militants are necessary to “win.”
“YOU WILL NEVER WIN WITH NON-VIOLENCE ALONE. Ever,” the post said.
Most of the arrested defendants reportedly made court appearances on Tuesday afternoon and were released on bond.
Alpha News will continue to follow developments in the cases.
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