Name: ICE had me 'under surveillance': Protest organizer speaks about arrest
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I understand, but I'm asking, why is he recording this?

I would ask that you not record it doesn't have to be.

So I'm asking, is it department of policies in the court if it's not?

Nicki might want to ask you about that video and just this whole issue of who's recording and why and what the policy is, because it's really crucial.

You just got out of custody a few hours ago.

And I know, you know, we spoke just hours before you arrested yesterday morning.

So then all of a sudden you were arrested, and.

And it's been 36 hours that you were in custody.

So what happened was yesterday morning, FBI agents essentially, I guess they.

So they had had me, as well as some of the other organizers and protesters under surveillance.

So they treated us as if we were dangerous criminals watching our movements.

They even went to my co defendant Chantelle Allen's home and watched her and her wife get into their vehicle and drive away the other night.

And apparently they were tracking me in my vehicle, which I did not know.

And so we stayed in a hotel in downtown Minneapolis because we had heard that they might be arresting people.

And we had our lawyer contact the U.S. marshal's office to see if there was an arrest warrant.

And they said there was no arrest warrant on file.

attorney's office as well, and they did not give him any information.

We also didn't want the FBI to kick in our doors with our families there.

So we stayed at a hotel so that we would be able to turn ourselves in in the event that we found out that there was an arrest warrant.

However, in the meantime, dozens of FBI agents again were surveilling us.

They found out the hotel that we were staying in.

They surrounded the building, monitored the building, and

at one point in the middle of the night, we were in my room, and

I opened the or, one of my friends opened the hotel door to go take her bag next door, and

an FBI agent stormed out of the room across the hall from me and chased her and slammed her to the ground.

Later we realized he thought that she was me.

So he got physical with her and attacked her.

And when I saw this man run out of the room, I just closed the door and locked it.

Like, I think that they're in the room next door surveilling us.

It was just so shocking to see the lengths that they went to, as if we were dangerous criminals.

And we're literally talking about a nonviolent, peaceful protest.

And so once we were able to get ahold of our attorneys early in the morning, we talked to them about me being able to turn myself in.

And initially David Rosenberg, who is the head prosecutor on this case, had told my attorney, Jordan Kushner, that I could just self surrender with him by my side.

And then he got a call from a higher up in Washington who said, no, the FBI was going to have to arrest me.

And I knew that they just wanted to put on a show because JD Vance was coming into town because MAGA got worked up over the church protest.

And that is why I believe that the FBI agent was trying to record me.

But what you describe is a whole lot of people and manpower and hotel room bills and all of these things that they're doing when you were willing to just walk in and turn yourself in.

We followed the steps to see if there was an arrest warrant for me, and

And so we were only eight minutes away from the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, which is where I would.

Where my attorney thought that I would have to turn myself in.

they treated this as if I was a fugitive on the run, that I had committed murder.

And they're doing all this, putting all these resources into tracking down one black woman when they will put zero resources into holding Jonathan Ross accountable.

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good, let's not forget that fact.

There are federal agents protecting his home as we speak.

But instead, they tried to make me a target simply for speaking the truth and calling out the authoritarian behavior of the Trump administration and the brutality of ICE in the Twin cities of Minnesota.

Nakima, in that video that they were filming of you.

Right, because they obviously have said this is something they're now doing, and we've seen them do it.

Jonathan Ross himself was filming during.

Nicole Goode, you say in your Video I don't want to be a trophy for maga.

We heard that in what we just played that you provided for us.

But that video that, that we're looking at, it confirms what your attorney said.

And by the way, what the DHS secretary posted, which is you looking very calm and stoic.

During your arrest, she posted an image of you.

But then the White House posted a digitally altered image, and

it showed looking bereft and crying and very broken up.

for viewers, the doctored AI generated fake image posted by the White House is on the right.

On the left is the real image, which was posted by the DHS secretary.

So, Nikima, when did you find out that this.

And what did you think when you first saw what the White House posted?

So my husband was there, and he was also recording.

So that is the recording that you have, which was taken by my husband.

And at the time, when I questioned the FBI agent about why he's.

Why he was recording, he had a smirk on his face.

He knew that this was a sham prosecution to begin with.

I could tell honestly by the look in his eyes.

And I said, you can't, you know, later I said, you can't even look at me with a straight face, you know, about this whole thing.

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