Below is my column in The Hill on the false “bait boy” story that went viral last week, the latest concoction of the left and an enabling media. It was an all-too-familiar pattern. Even after it was debunked, Gov. Tim Walz was still raising it late last week to paint ICE as soulless, depraved thugs. It simply does not matter that it is untrue in our post-truth political environment.
Here is the opinion:
“I am outraged, and you should be too.” That message from former Vice President Kamala Harris has been a virtual mantra of the Democratic Party for years. For several months, this has meant decrying the imminent death of democracy and our descent into authoritarianism. Now, it means falsely claiming that ICE “kidnapped” or “arrested” a five-year-old boy and used him as “bait” to catch someone.
The “bait boy” story is actually the latest clickbait hoax in our “Age of Rage.”
Five years ago, Harris was expressing the same call for outrage over the false story of Border agents whipping migrants in Texas. She expressed disgust over the “horrible and deeply troubling” scenes reminiscent of the slave period.
It quickly became a pile-on, with the media spreading the false account. Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) described the incident as “worse than what we witnessed in slavery” and “white supremacist behavior.”
President Biden threw the agents under the bus, publicly expressing disgust over their conduct and promising punishment before any investigation had occurred: “It was horrible what to see, as you saw — to see people treated like they did: horses nearly running them over and people being strapped. It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay.”
The media continued to repeat the false account, even as many of us pointed out that the publicly available video showed the story was demonstrably untrue. It did not matter. It fit the narrative on the left, and the agents were left under investigation for more than a year before being cleared of the “whipping” charges.
After the false story was exposed, the media just shrugged and went on to the next gotcha story.
As for this new hoax, Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) declared the incident to be “the worst of the damn worst” in a video on X. Craig, a candidate for Senate, accused federal officers of taking the boy to “use him to lure his father out.”
That is false. According to reports, the father was spotted in public and fled, abandoning the boy. Like Harris, Craig reminded citizens that “this is a time where we should all be outraged. If this doesn’t pierce through your humanity, as a Republican member of Congress, if you can’t speak out about this, then you’ve got no humanity left.”
The key, again, is the requisite outrage. If you are not outraged, you are not human.
It is often said that we are living in a “post-truth” political environment. The term rose to favor due to the 2016 election of President Trump. Oxford Dictionaries specifically cited Trump when it selected the term as word of the year. The irony is that the proof of post-truth politics is often found among those who use it the most on the left, in the media and academia.
The bait boy hoax is particularly disgraceful. It is common to have minor children present during arrests of all kinds. Officers will often try to get family members to take a child rather than put him into child services.
In this case, ICE officers were trying to detain Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an undocumented Ecuadorian national, when he bolted and left behind his five-year-old child, Liam Conejo Ramos.
Rather than leave the child in the freezing cold on the street, the officers took the child to his home to get his mother to take him in. She refused to open the door despite agents reportedly saying that she would not be detained. They proceeded to take the boy to McDonald’s, play his favorite music, and take care of him. He was never arrested. They also did not send him into detention. According to ICE, his father asked for the boy to be allowed to stay with him at a detention facility, and ICE agreed.
One can have good-faith objections to immigration enforcement policies. The Trump administration has made it a priority to deport the millions of undocumented migrants allowed into the country under the Biden administration. That is what Trump pledged to do in his campaign.
Post-truth politics and post-truth journalism are designed to fuel rage — to give people license to say and do things that they would not ordinarily say or do.
Even nurses this week have joined in the hate-fest against ICE and the administration. In New York, an injured NYPD officer and his colleagues were treated rudely by nurses when they were mistaken for ICE officers.
In Florida, a nurse named Lexie Lawler at the Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital directed her rage at White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who is expecting her second child. Lawler posted that “As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear. I hope you f——- rip from bow to stern and never s— normally again, you c—.” Like the ICE agents, Leavitt is not treated as a person but some Golem who can be joyfully and righteously harmed.
There is a strange aspect to rage addictions. Many on the left will use false stories to virtue signal, then unleash the most unvirtuous attacks. The greatest irony is that these individuals are doing precisely what they accuse ICE of doing. They are using this five-year-old as bait — clickbait — to fuel protests and outrage.
The call for outrage is meant to strip away the humanity of ICE agents, who are portrayed as having no sympathy or concern for a child. Indeed, the use of this child by protesters strips him of his humanity. He was as much of a prop as the ICE agents were.
The bait boy hoax does show that Harris and Craig may be right about one thing: “This is a time where we should all be outraged.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the author of the forthcoming “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution,” which will be released on Feb. 3 as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
As part of MAGA media, Turley repeats whatever the MAGA talking point is as established fact, and then accuses Democrats or mainstream media of lying. Here’s what “Lead Stories” reports:
“ICE made the claim several times, including in a Jan. 22, 2026 X post (archived here) that read, in part: “The child was ABANDONED” and “… As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot — abandoning his child.”
Lead Stories reached out to ICE, seeking body cam or other evidence to support the assertion. We will update this fact check, as relevant, when they supply it.
At a Jan. 22, 2026 news conference at the office of the boy’s attorney, Mark Prokosch, officials from the boy’s school said it’s not true the father abandoned his son.
In CSPAN video of the news conference, Columbia Heights Superintendent of Schools Zena Stenvik said she arrived at the scene in hopes of taking the boy back to school. She said she was told by witnesses there that ICE agents grabbed the father on the driveway of their home. “The accusation is he fled,” Stenvik said, at timecode 05:00 of the CSPAN video . “Everything I heard was that he was handcuffed in the driveway. What we saw when we arrived was the father’s car in the driveway, still running.”
Mary Granlund, Chair of the Columbia Heights school board, who spoke starting at timecode 9:32 on the CSPAN video, said she arrived on the scene just as the boy was seized by ICE.
I was on my way to get my own children and I heard the commotion and saw all the people… As I got out of my car and came around the corner I heard, ‘What are you doing? Don’t take the child…The school is here, you don’t have to take the child.’
There was ample opportunity to be able to safely hand that child off to adults. Mom was there and she saw out the window. Dad was yelling “Please do not open the door. Don’t open the door.'”
The father was present in the US legally, awaiting an adjudication of his asylum claim. There is NO pending legal case against him. According to “PBS”:
“Federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car while it was in the family’s driveway on Tuesday afternoon, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik said during a news conference Wednesday. The officers then told him to knock on the door to his home to see if other people were inside, “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait,” she said.
Stenvik said the family, who came to the U.S. in 2024, has an active asylum case and had not been ordered to leave the country.
“Why detain a 5-year-old?” she asked. “You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that “ICE did NOT target a child.”
She said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was conducting an operation to arrest the child’s father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who McLaughlin said is from Ecuador and in the U.S. illegally. He fled on foot, “abandoning his child,” she said.
“For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias,” McLaughlin said, adding that parents are given the choice to be removed with their children or have them placed with a person of their choosing.
Stenvik said another adult who lives at the home was outside when the father and son were taken, but agents wouldn’t leave Liam with that person. DHS didn’t immediately respond to an email Thursday asking if Conejo Arias had asked to keep his son with him.
The family’s lawyer, Marc Prokosch, said Thursday that Liam and his father were taken to an immigration lockup in Dilley, Texas, and that he assumes they’re being held in a family holding cell.
“We’re looking at our legal options to see if we can free them either through some legal mechanisms or moral pressure,” he said at a news conference.”
JT enjoys the cash flow. He’s a paid protester for the billionaires.
Well thank goodness we have Anonymous to represent the Red Terror side of things!
JT loves his judicial purity. Except when it comes to trump officials lying to a court of law…
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis, out of Illinois, wrote in her ruling, “Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters.”
MAGA will ignore constitutional principles to get a desired outcome.
@Anonymous
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Really, you are starting to sound like someone who is high and on the street who shouts random things when people walk by. Thankfully the majority of us are not so stupid. Nothing anyone can do when someone is actively high, and you are, even if it’s just your own self-importance you are high on.
James,
Yeah, this is the usual hit and run dumb comment. But putting together a line of thought that actually mentioned what Constitutional principles we are supposedly ignoring would require actual thought. I am all for people expressing their 1stA right. What I am not for is when those people think they have the right to interfere, obstruct LEOs from doing their duties like enforcing immigration laws.
@Upstate
It’s all of their run and dumb comments, run and dumb is all they have because they are deficient in every sense of the word as functional people. All they can do is react. It’s quite sad, but i don’t feel bad for them now that they go to such extremes. Hurting other people is a line.
They do not realize we think they are just pathetic. Not a threat, not salient, not intimidating, just sad. Very, very sad. Like birth defect sad. They do not realize we think they are ridiculous and pity them, no matter how they act out. It is all for naught, and yes, at some point in their lives, they will either have to grow up or perish, because the real adults will not relent, and being real adults, we are just smarter.
The saddest thing of all to me is that for many, this is something their parents cultivated in them. that pretty much amounts to lies.
James,
Sad and pathetic is right. Their lack of self-awareness is also rather odd. How many times have they declared that such and such person was on the way out the door! Or they would be investigated! Wearing orange jumpsuit by the end of the summer! Out of a job! The economy is in a death spiral! Trump is doing . . . something!
None of that has come to pass, or they were wrong in the first place. Either their TDS addled brains really believe that nonsense or they are lying, and just dont care. If it is the former, they need professional mental health. If the latter, just shows how much they lack character. Either way it is not healthy as a society. As OLLY has pointed out most recently, when a society cannot agree on founding principles, that society is destined to fall apart. Or something to that affect. He is much more elegant at explaining it. Probably why he has a book.
Booing the bad guys is now “obstruction”
Go it.
Why are you so interested in legal matters?
The Tenth Amendment prescribes that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state, or to the people, so where is the specific law that legitimizes the presence of ICE in Minneapolis? As one of the people, Alex had more of a legitimate presence than ICE did.
The Supreme Court ruled about 150 years ago that control of immigration is inherent in sovereignty and that congress therefore has plenary power over it, even though it’s not specifically enumerated. Thus, the immigration laws Congress makes are the supreme law of the land and the president is authorized and required to enforce them. QED.
Principles?
Here’s a simple principle for you: Jay Jones.
Suck on that for a while.
What happened to Alex was akin to “fruit of the poisonous tree”.
Yes. He deliberately interfered with an arrest, and then resisted arrest, while armed. His death flowed directly from that.
President Walz and vp Frey have gotten the incoherent slug trump into discussions to pull back ICE/CBP in Minneapolis….
For obvious reasons, this is good news. Plus it frees up time for trump to prepare an impeachment trial degense over who was at the policy decision meeting where extrajudicial killing within the US was deemed to be trump administration policy.
This of course means choads like Turley who have gone out on a limb to justify this policy are exceptionally dumb.
WTH ?. ICE is moving in deeper baby , those puppets jakob and jazz hands will either resign or be removed form office due to their collective participation in this insurrection and Somali fraud. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Quiet. Quiet piggy.
Says another “anonymous.” Hey, anonymous, piss off.
Facts can be SO annoying, can’t they?
Follow-up: Lexie Lawler was fired for her ugly TikTok tirade, https://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/boca-raton/boca-raton-nurse-fired-after-viral-video-wishing-birth-complications-on-trump-press-secretary.
The trick is that headlines like the one Professor Turley cites can be regarded as technically true: the boy was detained: held by ICE and not allowed to run loose in Minneapolis January weather, then, of all horrors, taken to Mickey D’s for a Happy Meal. But “detained” was clearly meant to have another effect on readers and/or viewers. Sometimes the worst lies are the ones told with the truth.
Regarding nurses, some outlets are hyping that Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse, worked for the VA, and similar positives, comparable to what we saw a few years ago with the shootings-du-jour then. I am absolutely not saying either that ICE was wrong or that Pretti “asked for it” or “deserved it,” only that, unfortunately, the media is not bound by the rules of official investigations and litigation, where we gather relevant, not emotional, evidence and apply “rules of law” – that oft-cited phrase – but by rules of further-the-narrative, get viewers/listeners/clickers (read “revenue”) and, as a result, further rage.
RussAmGirl,
The journalists would report the evidence released by the DoJ and DHS, but neither one releases evidence.
I guess 9 rounds into the back of an unarmed man, on the ground, piled on by 5 or 6 agents is not emotional for you.
That’s OK. It’s a psychopathic lack of reaction due to having no empathy.
Alex wasn’t treated as a person, either, but I guess you failed to see that.
He fought with an officer doing his job. Alez should have stayed on the sidelines like you should do. But Noooo he picked a fight
That sad leftoid did a FAFO , and predictably he lost .
The officer had an illegitimate presence.; therefore, everything the officer did was illegitimate.
ICE LEOs were there, carrying out their duties as defined by Congress. Their presence was legit.
What specific law legitimized their presence there?
The immigration laws, you idiot.
@Dustoff
No, he joined an idiotic leftist club to begin with, this was not a conscientious individual, and apparently had a p*ss-poor understanding of gun rights. The Biden era is over. Expect a great deal of crying, and a complicit DNC and media. This was always going to be like ripping off the mother of all band-aids given the irresponsibility regarding immigration of past administrations, and I am not surprised. What I hope is that it stays confined to MN, and I think it will this time, even if there are blips elsewhere. We voted for the opposite of this, across dang near the entire country. We haven’t forgotten that, and we won’t in November.
The modern left’s favorite pastime seems to be shooting up both their feet until they can no longer walk.
By George I think he’s got it!!!
https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540
OldFish,
Good read. Thank you for posting that.
Everyone!! Please read that!!
@Oldfish
Yup, pretty much. These cosplaying children have no idea how spoiled and enabled they are. Sometimes I think it’s the right time to bring back spanking. Bear in mind, we might be spanking people over 30. So be it. If they want to act like infants, we will treat them like infants.
In the high chair they threw whirred peas, now they throw lethality. I really want to make their little bottoms red, and we are conscious enough to not freaking kill them, as they seem to be more than willing to do to everyone else. I would also like to find their parents and smack the soundly.
They aren’t children, really. They are cosplaying, wearing military camouflage uniforms and carrying pepper ball gun replicas of actual fire arms.
Also, and it never ceases to amaze me, that no one on the side of of authoritarianism cannot spell correctly.
It’s “whirled peas” and isn’t something fed to toddlers.
He’s an abbreviation queen, saying nothing of substance. It is laughable that provoking a deadly attack in response to holding a camera is possible, but that’s the reality of a goon squad.
Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN
Johnson: “I’ve never heard of Minneapolis, where is it?”
He will probably say he has never heard of Minnesota, but looks forwards to hearing where it is.
Mike Johnson: “Minnesota? Isn’t that one of the Canadian provinces?”
“Minnesota?”
Mike Johnson “No thanks. I want a large soda.”
Is there any way possible for Professor Turley to block the left-wing bot invasion of this site?
Civil debate has been demolished.
Clearly the Turley blog has been “fundamentally transformed” into a sty of absurd and inane communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) propaganda, invective, and ad hominem.
Dammit, Turley – could you be more balanced and also report the conservative and republican hoaxes? /s
As in?
DustOff,
You may not be aware of this, but the /s is internet for sarcasm. I usually use, /sarc.
LOL… what can I say.
How about Bovino?
“Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times,” the judge wrote in the document.
1. Lying at a press conference is not a crime.
2. Sara Ellis is herself a soldier in this insurrection against the USA. The FBI should investigate her links to those running these Signal chats.
“I am outraged, and you should be too.” That message from former Vice President Kamala Harris has been a virtual mantra of the Democratic Party for years.
“纸老虎 (zhǐlǎohǔ)” is the phrase for “Paper Tiger.” The character “纸 (zhǐ)” means paper; “老 (lǎo)” means old and “虎 (hǔ)” means tiger.
Paper tiger – a person, nation, etc., that has the appearance of power but is actually weak and ineffectual. (thefreedictionary)
Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning ‘Sea Levels Are Rising’ Due to ‘Climate Crisis’
Harris’s new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/kamala-harris-buys-8-2-million-seaside-mansion-after-warning-sea-levels-are-rising-due-to-climate-crisis/
Curious how the Looney Left characterizes a 5 year old boy as to being “kidnapped” by ICE. Meanwhile under Obama and Biden’s “immigration” policies, millions of children from Latin America were lured to the US by child traffickers. Kamala is too distracted with her obscene view of the Pacific Ocean from her $8.2 M seaside mansion to characterize these immigrant children who are now slaves for sex, labor and widgets.
There is blood on the hands of Democrats for all of the harm they brought to Latin Americans lured to America by coyotes as well as children bought/sold like slaves, as well as the Americans they have baited to attack ICE Federal Officers.
When Bill Clinton ordered his attorney general Janet Reno to literally kidnap a child, Elian Gonzalez, 6 yrs of age, from a Cuban home in Little Havana, Miami, after his mother gave her life at sea to flea Communist Cuba to offer a better life for her son, Democrats cheered. They did so at gunpoint. No one was even armed in the home. It was pre-dawn, Good Friday, the holiest of days in the Catholic Calendar. Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was doing in terrorizing this boy and his family (aunt and uncle hosted him). Naturally the Democrats sent the boy back to Cuba to a father who had nothing to do with him until Bill Clinton genuflected before Fidel Castro because Fidel used the boy as a pawn…much like Democrats are doing now in Minneapolis.
The special agent responsible for the kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez at gun point justifies everything Bill Clinton’s US Marshalls did in the following video. Ideologies are like that
Sex, Power, and Profit: A Global Comparative Perspective on the US Human Trafficking Crisis
11.DEC.2024
Human trafficking in the United States encompasses forced labor, sex trafficking, and domestic servitude. Globally, approximately 27.6 million people are victims of human trafficking, with significant numbers within the United States. According to the 2023 Global Slavery Index (GSI), an estimated 1,091,000 people are living in modern slavery in the United States. Despite its prevalence, human trafficking receives relatively little media coverage. This lack of coverage hinders public awareness and policy initiatives combating this alarming human rights violation.
https://hir.harvard.edu/sex-power-and-profit-a-global-comparative-perspective-on-the-us-human-trafficking-crisis/
Millions of people in modern slavery in the United States from human trafficking vs Democrats focusing on a 5 year old who was abandoned by his father and mother. Democrats are leading their followers to Dante’s 7th circle of Hell in the Inferno.
Trump is not breaking up human slavery rings.
Lie harder.
If Obama did something you don’t like, then you say it’s OK for Trump to do the same thing?
That explains a lot about morality.
Walz is fighting for his political life and any lie that will incite his base and the media is acceptable. One would guess that the people of Minnesota like him enough to believe his rhetoric. Notice how the fraud in the State is rarely discussed? He is quite an effective ‘truth denier’. I do not get it how people can actually think letting illegal criminals roam our streets without punitive action is acceptable. Hating Trump is a full time occupation for many people it seems — so much so they lose their common sense and willingness to undermine the Constitution! Just imagine life without the Constitution? Bet any of these people would be the first to invoke the Constitution if they stood before the judge!
@Anonymous
Yes. These are the lengths they will go to to hide their own malfeasance. I can’t imagine living inside such a tortured mind. and that the useful idiots are basically doing what they are doing in service of someone that became wealthy on their backs – sigh. The satire writes itself.
Anyway, yes, suddenly fraud is no longer in the news. Make no mistake: VA employed those new tax regulations to fund their NGOs since they have been clipped federally for the time being, and that is just to hold onto power and continue more of this. Skunks smell sweeter and have better intentions for you.
Of possible interest: this news-aggregator website is linking to several stories about a professional Marxist army on the ground in Minnesota, and about that insurgent army allegedly trying to kill conservative journalist James O’Keefe.
https://citizenfreepress.com/
On behalf of conservatives nationwide, ICE agents are actually killing people exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Does it pain O’Keefe to see the ICE Brownshirts violating the 1st Amendment rights of protestors? (If you make excuses for something, then you are for it.)
No, they are violently interfering with ongoing, and valid, law enforcement operations.
The excuse of “I was just following ze orders” did not work for Nazis, so it should not work for these ICE agents, either.
WTF would you know of Conservatism you sniveling wretch? Go line up and be sure to arm up, you go show those ICE Nazis who’s boss. You can be the next winner of the Democratic Martyrs Dumfuk Award. When you impede, interfere, assault or obstruct you go from protestor to criminal act. A war zone is a dangerous thing, people get really concerned about their own lives, people creating chaos and criminal activity often get shot depending upon their actions.
8: I am not aware of “war” being declared in Minnesota. Is that what you would like to see?
Talk to both the Mayor and Governor. They are telling to fight back against ICE
It’s called civil disobedience. It involves breaking the law.
It’s organized crime, mobsters.
Nope. The second you block or touch that officer. You have broken the law.
What if simply standing and the officer body checks you to the ground? Is that breaking the law?
Only if you aren’t supporting the violent abuse of citizens by a government.
If you resist him, then yes, that is a crime. If you interfere with him arresting someone else, that’s a crime. If he tells you to move out of the way of the officers making an arrest, and you refuse, that’s a crime.
Did they use the word fight as in “Fight like hell or you won’t have a country anymore!”?
I know someone who organized a mob to attack the Representives of the House in the Capitol building and to force the Vice President from the proceedings so that false slates of electors would be substituted to steal the election from the American people.
Does that lawlessness ring a bell?
Funny, Tim Tampon Walz said they were at war with ICE. Watching some of the videos, the protesters/rioters make it kinda look like a war zone. But you would call that fiery but peaceful protesting.
No, I’d call it civil disobedience. I’d also call it a zombie zone.
You call it potato LAW calls it tomato. Law wins over leftist drivel here.
USF
I was in El Salvador 75 & 76 during their civil war. It’s eerily similar to what is going on here. It didn’t come on all at once, it started slowly. First there were protests, then the protests started getting violent, then the Duarte regime answered with force. Then people started waking up dead in the street with nights of roving right wing death squads. The full on fighting came later, where outright carnage was released on any opposition. Point is, when a scenario is created that people are undafe and fear that they are prone for attack, react in survival mode. Shoot first ask questions later, it’s how to survive.
Apparently you have covered your ears with the war chants of the anteefa ( no teef ) cesspool being paid to go to and inhibit Law enforcement in minnisomaliapolis.
War doesn’t need to be declared.
Neither Renee Good nor the man killed the other day were exercising First Amendment rights. They were interfering with federal agents in the lawful pursuit of their duties. That is not an excuse, it is fact. The people screeching on the sidelines were exercising their First Amendment rights.
No, blowing whistles is NOT peaceful. It raises agitation. It makes me agitated. I’d like to go in there and punch them in the whistle. 😏
Truth winner of the day!
Pretti was committing the crime of making a video recording of the violence of the ICE agents. They came to him and shoved him. He tried to walk away and they shoved a women to the concrete. Pretti increased his crime by trying to help the woman to her feet. That angered the ICE agents and they called for the death penalty, shooting him in the back.
You are deliberately lying about the Constitution, as per usual.
“Peaceably to assemble,” try to quote American fundamental law correctly.
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1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law…abridging the…right of the people peaceably to assemble,….
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Merriam-Webster
peaceably
adverb
peace·ably -blē -bli
1: in a peaceable and friendly manner : without contention or strife
possible for more than one religion to survive comparatively peaceably in the same state— Alfred Cobban
2: without subjection to annoyance or confusion : in peace : quietly
disturb him not; let him pass peaceably— Shakespeare
Ano
Did you miss this part (right of the people peaceably to assemble)
PEACEABLY.
As we have seen it’s always the left trying to redefine language to interpret “peaceful” as obstruction tainted with violence. Only somali IQ people would believe it to be “peaceful” when they toss frozen water bottles , ram agents with cars , bite their fingers off and the wrestle with agents will carrying a firearm. It’s so easy a caveman can do it…unless the caveman is a democrat , then all bets and reasoning are off.
Somalis et al. have absolutely NO business being in this country. Period.
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“WHATEVER TENDS TO A DISCORDANT INTERMIXTURE MUST HAVE AN INJURIOUS TENDENCY”
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
peaceably
adverb
US /ˈpiː.sə.bli/ UK /ˈpiː.sə.bli/
without violence or war
Derp derp goes the signal chat member.
Dear Prof Turley,
According to the Pew Research Center (2025 release), six states, California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, continue to host the majority of ‘illegal immigrants’.
One would think Trump’s DHS would target these states for ICE’s ‘targeted’ law enforcement operations.
In any case, very few of ICE’s operation in Minneapolis seem ‘targeted’. 3,000+ heavily armed masked ICE agents, in various uniform and ‘use of force’ guidelines, roaming the streets of Minneapolis are not ‘targeted’ immigration law enforcement operations.
ICE is ‘targeting’ Minneapolis.
*it’s good example of why you shouldn’t carry a gun there, although it may be your right to do so. .. I figure the threat from robbers, thieves and other ‘illegals’ is less than that from ICE.
One state at a time DG.
One ‘blue’ state at a time, maybe, dusty.
It won’t last. After the elections, the Democrats will impeach Trump every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.. . assuming there are elections!?
They’re already threatening to impeach DHS Sec Noam and defund ICE.
*if you can’t impeach Trump. .. who can you impeach?
Solve the largest problem first.
This will clearly come as a big surprise to you, but targeted law enforcement operations have been going on across the country, with cooperation from local and state law enforcement – which why there is no associated hoopla. Do yourself a favor and stop confusing agitprop with fact.
“argeted law enforcement operations have been going on across the country, with cooperation from local and state law enforcement”
Because they are targeted. This isn’t. This is a wide door-to-door sweep, picking up American citizens as well as those with pending immigration cases that Congress authorized.
One rotten fruit basket first , and minnisomaliappolis has shown itself full of fraudulently corrupted fruit and it gets first service. The squeaky wheel is now getting federally oiled. America needs this cleansing of corruption and fraud .
“One would think Trump’s DHS would target these states . . .”
ICE operations in:
California: since May 2025; Texas: since 2025; Florida: since 2025 (“Operation Tidal Wave”); New York: since mid-2025; New Jersey: since 2025; Illinois: since January 2025
Know first. Criticize second. Otherwise, you make yourself look like a fool.
About 25% of ICE arrests have been in Texas. No fuss, because the local authorities cooperate.
The operations in MN are targeted. They are NOT roaming the streets. They are arresting specific individuals for whom they have removal orders. No Americans are being detained unless they are observed committing a crime, such as obstruction, assault, etc.
What’s the point of a comments section if it’s just a one-upmanship retort/clever reply echo chamber? Dems have tried everything but actual prolonged, widespread violent insurrection to rid themselves of their orange nemesis – didn’t work during his first term but that is the obvious direction they are now heading back to. Meanwhile, Repubs suffered through 4 years of Biden-nonsense while working to win the next election (which they did in 2024). But Repubs winning elections just means that the violent Left will inevitably rear it’s un-American head again and try to destroy what it cannot control. North Korea may be the Left’s vision for America, but they’ll settle for Somalia.
Because Professor Turley is closest to the target, the communist bots were sent to destroy his blog by any means.
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“The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target.”
– Boyd K. Packer
Violence is a core of America. It’s what founded America. Violence is as American as one can get.
Professor Turley,
There are conflicting accounts of what happened with this child. It is absolutely possible, as the family claims, that the agents intentionally separated the child from the father and then used the child to knock on the door of the family’s home to round up more immigrants to deport.
After ICE claimed that Pretti was “brandishing” a weapon when he very clearly was holding a cell phone and had his gun holstered (note the absence of your post-truth article on that much larger story), I am not inclined to take their word as the gospel.
And you should not either.
And let us also recall that Alex Pretti has been labeled a ‘domestic terrorist’ for simply having a gun on his person (never once having brandished it or removing it from his holster) which resulted in his public execution, while at the same time Trump and Republicans have deemed Kyle Rittenhouse a hero for openly carrying and using an AR15 at a protest. So please forgive us if we don’t exactly trust the Reich’s (excuse me) the RIGHT’S word on this.
And, of course, appropriate investigations are underway by ICE, DHS, and the DOJ.
Direct and Mortal Enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America here.
Pretti went to a protest, with a loaded firearm, two additional loaded magazines, approached ICE agents, obstructed them, would not obey their lawful orders, fought with them. He reportedly did not have ID on him which is required to carry concealed in the state of MN. He was also a member of leftist ICE Watch group, who’s activities include stalking, harassing and ambushing ICE and Border agents. His own parents even told him, “We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti added, per CBS News. “And he said he knows that. He knew that.”
His parents also noted they had never known him to carry.
Rittenhouse defended himself, as ruled by a jury of his peers, from being attacked by violent rioters.
What specifically were their lawful orders that he failed to obey?
What was said to him before they peppersprayed him?
He got pepper sprayed because he fighting with the officers. Watch the video dummy.
Did he throw a punch? When was this fighting you claim happened?
Do you pull your car over when you hear the siren of a police vehicle and see its flashing lights?
Leftists , dont , they just block the way.
Guess you missed the many videos where pretti interceded and laid hands on the federal agents while they were making an arrest. Crikey get glasses and stop drinking the anteefa koolaide.
What video shows him hit an officer?
And yet again no one has said the “orders” he disobeyed. Upstate just made that up. Presumably you’re making this up as well
He laid hands on the woman they shoved face down into the concrete.
He did not lay any hands on a federal agent until he was tackled and peppersprayed
And you didn’t answer the question. What order did he disobey?
He was lawfully ordered to get out of the way and stop interfering with the arrest. He refused. He then interfered with the woman’s arrest. And then he resisted his own arrest.
Resisting arrest is a crime regardless of the circumstances. Even if the arrest turns out to have been unlawful you can go to prison for having resisted it.
USF
I would additionally add that Rittenhouse was armed due to the riotous thugs destroying other people’s property. He killed a pedophile that assaulted him and he shot a Bolshevik that tried to detain him and shoot him, blowing his arm nearly off. When people practice evil, they will often find punishment.
EightBall,
Thank you for the assist and clarification!
The point is that Rittenhouse had a gun at a protest, used it, and was waved out safely by police while Pretti did not show the gun, brandish the gun, or touch the gun and that lack of violence on his part is given as the excuse to commit a cold-blooded murder of him.
The point is Rittenhouse was armed with a gun at a riot ro protect private property against a riotous mob of scum bags burning and looting. The problem was the riotous scum bags burning, killing and looting. So here you are again unable to understand the difference between a mob of idiots interfering with federal law enforcement while thinking it’s a good idea to arm up versus someone showing up at a destructive riot that cost billions. As I recall, Rittehouse was a paramedic and arming himself for self protection from the rioters after seeing several days and deaths caused by a bunch of idiots over the overdose death of a black junkie mook.
Max limit 10 rounds?
Be Polite
Those bits of information are from the agency that shot him in the back.
It would be different if he had blown the brains out of the ICE agent forcing him from recording. Had he emptied 2 of the magazines into fallen ICE agents the way they emptied their guns into him.
There would be no advantage in not carrying ID. If arrested they would run his prints and hold him until they could gain an ID. If, as in this case, he was dead, it would be a short time, as it was, to identify him. It’s most likely one of the ICE agents stole his wallet and is using his credit and debit cards until the accounts are locked.
Pretti posted alot of anteefa ( no teef ) drivel and physically altercated with federal agents making an arrest . Kyle was just there doing the right thing and got attacked by pedophiles and criminals. Such a night and day difference.
Except he didn’t though. No video exists showing him touch an agent until he was tackled and peppersprayed. His back was to them bc he was helping the woman they pushed on the icy curb.
Rittenhouse quite properly armed himself before going to aid innocent people being attacked a violent mob. He could easily anticipate that he might have to use his weapon to defend his own life or someone else’s, as indeed happened.
Pretti armed himself before going to join and support a violent mob, in open rebellion against the USA. Who did he think might attack him? His fellow rioters?! Or did he anticipate using his weapon on federal officers, which is automatically a felony?
Anonymous, indeed there may be conflicting accounts of what happened to this young boy. However, the account of his being arrested by ICE is mentioned to paint ICE agents as uncaring thugs and this account is the account being spread by Democratic politicians. All accounts cannot be true at one time when the evidence proves otherwise. The tactics of the deceiver are always the same. You’ve learned your lessons well.
They may not all be uncaring thugs, but that they tolerate uncaring thugs in their ranks makes them all uncaring thugs by default.
And, of course, appropriate investigations are underway by ICE, DHS, and the DOJ.
Direct and Mortal Enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America here.
More wash , repeat and rinse garbage, ho hum.
It doesn’t really matter, Pretti wasn’t the first person killed for holding a cell phone in mistake of a gun. If one officer called gun from seeing it holsteted and another officer mistake s a cellphone for said gun it’s a error that resulted in a death. Then it boils down to what Pretti was engaging in at that moment, assault and resisting arrest while carrying a firearm. Whose stupidity led to the death, I hope that illegal criminals next molestation or rape of someone’s wife or daughter was worth it.
Pretti was engaged in having his face beaten, two cops directly on top of him, his hands stretched above his head, while another couple cops were working on his legs and one cop was visibly taking the gun from Pretti’s holster.
That’s the dangerous situation that called for on the spot execution.
no he was not laying flat outstretched with arms above his head when he was shot.
Do you really believe the father? Survival was his first instinct. As to Pretti, it was so unfortunate but ultimately, why take a gun to a protest? Not a wise move even if you are licensed to carry one. The blame for all this madness is solely on Walz. He has the capacity to calm things down but it is not to his advantage.
Bro , nobody disputes that illegal left his kid and RAN like a coward. That pretti moron physically interceded against an ICE arrest of an illegal WHILE armed and his actions caused his demise – FACT.
Democrats want lies to believe
They hate America and western society. It is a DEATH CULT
A “death cult”, Guy? What would you call the Trump/Miller bands of murdering marauders known as ICE agents roaming the streets of America?
That’s the kind of characterization perhaps the deluded agitators in MN actually believe. You, and they, are completely and totally detached from reality.
The reality is, Alex Pretti was forcibly disarmed and then shot in the back repeatedly in broad daylight, as captured by at least 4 video feeds. And then Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino lied about that – and continue to lie about it. Are you ok with your government lying to you about what you can see with your own eyes?
How often are news outlets wrong in early reporting?
Were Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino eyewitnesses on the scene or were they simply relaying what had been reported to them?
I can live with it….too soon?
Your TDS delusions are glaringly obvious.
Agitprop belief system failure. Take two trumpynols and lay off the koolaide.
The reality is that if people like you scream, harass, assault and besmirch ICE agents telling them you’re going to kill them and they’re going to die. They may be a bit paranoid about it and believe you, then when you assault them and are carrying a firearm, they may shoot you first and ask questions later. Guns are a tool for killing, if you carry one, you may kill somebody or you may be killed. That’s how it works.
I would call them Law enforcement officers trying to conduct deportation cases while being harassed by a multitude of Marxist scum bags.
Oh, no, not whistles!
Why is it always whistles?
Oh gee whiz give that crap a rest already. Make sure you logged of that signal chat …ooops Data Republican already downloaded it all, he he !.
MAGA is Satanic.
No, MAGA adheres to the truth, such as that biological men should not be in women’s competitive sports because they have an unfair advantage, and that men should not be invading girls’ showers and locker rooms, and that men cannot give birth. Satan is the father of lies, and thus, the Dem party – which promotes those lies, among hundreds of others – is satanic, not MAGA.
Of the some 500,000 competitors in college athletics there are nearly 20 transsexual athletes. Clearly they are going to dominate the competitions.
“men should not be invading girls’ showers and locker rooms”
That’s what the beauty pageant contestants asked of Trump, but Trump demanded he needed to examine the merchandise.
Oddly it’s the Dems that welcome satanists , abortionists , illegals , fraudster somalis , communists into their open arms. Your contradictions and falsehoods are legion.
My state will become a little more blue when I register as a Democrat for the first time!
^^^ A Liar!
A Liar… Donald Trump. A mentally ill liar.
Biden… is that you again.
Full derp derp TDS mode from the land of leftist butthurt.
Another illegal latino.
Me, too!
Yeah, no one cares.
YAWN… try harder lib
Well then it can match your balls.
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Hard to vote as a communist wasn’t it. Your just one small stain on a sea of red.
Every ICE official has something in common with Walz, Biden, Harris and Trump.
They are all oath-sworn “constitutional officers” – they all made a promise to GOD to follow the U.S. Constitution and protect (not violate) constitutional rights.
As Executive Branch officials, they made a promise to GOD to not trespass onto the jurisdiction of the other co-equal branches.
The irony is, White House speakers wearing a Christian cross are bearing false witness to those disloyal to the American Oath of Office.
you are a dope
Anonymous, you speak of God only when convenient while at the same time you think that killers, rapist and men having sex with children should be protected against arrest. You mourn at the death of the protesters in Minneapolis but never once have you spoken in sadness of the death of Laken Riley or Charlie Kirk. You speak of constitutional rights but when freedom of speech was limited by Twitter and Facebook you celebrated and called for more. Professor Turley’s post is about using the tragedy of a five year old boy who’s fathers acts caused his separation from his son to support your argument. Then somehow now and only now for the first time comes God into your argument. Amorality on display.
TiT,
Well said.
They will NOT mention Laken Riley or any of those other women and children assaulted, raped and murdered by Biden’s illegals and they celebrate when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. They are all for censorship when it is their kind of censorship.
UpstateFarmer – Republicans will NOT mention the thousands of women and children the Republican party leaders have sexually abused or raped.
Whoever “they” are to you, “they” didn’t celebrate the death of Charlie Kick, but did note the irony of his many statements concerning how guns and gun deaths are a necessary part of having people carry guns to fight their government.
What is not surprising is those people who agreed with Charlie on those points celebrated the death of a VA nurse, shot in the back for trying to help a woman to her feet on the grounds that his legally carried concealed weapon was cause for the death sentence.
Jazz hands and kumswallah along with senile briben bitler are false witnesses that serve jim jones brand koolaide to their leftist sheeple.