Bulwark Takes - EXCLUSIVE: Viral Protester Speaks Out As ICE Turns Minneapolis Into “Military Zone”

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Tim Miller is joined by Minnesota resident turned viral protester Chis Ostroushko for his take on the “insane” Minneapolis protests. Chris shares his unfiltered perspective on how ICE has turned ...the city into a “military zone” and why he felt compelled to speak out and protest.You can follow Chris at MNAngryMan on Instagram and BlueSky:https://www.instagram.com/mnangryman/https://bsky.app/profile/mnangryman.bsky.social

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, everybody. Up next is my interview with Chris Ostrushko, who was Minnesota angry guy, my spirit animal, the fellow from the man on the street interview, protesting on Minneapolis the other night, who was freaking out at just the insanity that ICE is inflicting on his community. It was a great conversation. I hope that you enjoy meeting as much as I did. After we got off, he mentioned that he is going to keep going out to the protests and post some of the conversations he's having with people who are getting roughed up by the ICE agents or being wrongfully detained, et cetera. And so if you want to follow him, he has created the account.
Starting point is 00:00:43 The accounts are MN Angry Man. I love that. Just own it brand wise. MN. Angry Man. He's got that on Blue Sky on Instagram and I guess on Facebook too. So if you're digging it, then you want to support him and want to monitor what's happening. Go ahead and check him out there.
Starting point is 00:01:01 All right. Up next, Chris Ostruchko. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Bullwark. I'm Tim Miller, and I couldn't be more delighted to be here with a fella who many of us saw on video this week. It's Chris Ostrushko. He lives in the Twin Cities. He's been out at the protests.
Starting point is 00:01:16 And he had some pretty hot language for the situation we found ourselves in this week. How you doing, Chris? Thanks for doing this. I'm doing very good. A little tired because I was all again today. Well, I want to hear about that. But for folks who missed it, I was, you know, like you, it sounds like, pretty down about everything, doing some doom scrolling the other night. When I came across your video, the video of you being interviewed on the street, it really kind of buoyed me a little bit and kind of got my blood flowing.
Starting point is 00:01:46 And so hopefully that has the same effect on some other folks. I want to watch some of that together for people that missed it. This is nuts. This is fucking, yeah, and you're right in the middle of this shit. What the fuck is? going on dude this is insane have you ever gone out to these sort of things before ever never never i've never protested in my life my brother my brother's here he does it all the time i've never i got dude i like i said i'm far enough away but close enough and i'm
Starting point is 00:02:13 sitting my cushy house and look at shit and get mad and i yeah they're just trying to fucking scare people and you know but but but why shoot people my no you know what really pisses me off is the fact that they detain people cuff them and then still beat the shit out of them. They tell you it's immigrants, only immigrants. It's fucking anybody. I have friends that got detained and all they were doing was fucking driving home from work. What the fuck? Sounds like you don't fit the definition of the, uh, I'm not fucking paid to be here like everybody fucking says. What the fuck is that? I gotta work in the goddamn morning, just like everybody else. I'm just here trying to stand up for community, dude. We're all human beings
Starting point is 00:02:53 here. I don't give a shit who you are, where you came from, what color you are. It doesn't fucking matter. This is wrong. I've watched it like 18 times already now, so I appreciate you. So give us the back story. So when this interview is happening, where were you, where were you protesting? And what was the scene like that? Well, I guess I was more of an observer,
Starting point is 00:03:11 observer, honestly. It was down down in North Minneapolis at the second ice shooting this week, or last week, I guess, you should say. And it was like a military zone. I mean, there was flash grenades going off.
Starting point is 00:03:26 there was rubber bullets, tear gas, tear gas canisters. It was pretty intense. And they kept asking me if they could interview me. And I said, that's fine. Just walk with me. I don't give a shit. And then I started talking. Just started talking with the guys.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Yeah. So you can hear from that backstory. You said you're not big a protester. Tell us your story. I just got sick of sitting at home looking at social media and getting pissed off every night. You know, I look at social media and it seems like the majority of the people lie, especially on one side. And I'm not taking sides here. It's not about sides to me. This isn't a right or left thing. This is a humanity thing. And it's right or wrong to me. For some of us who are doing that same thing, like looking at social media and getting mad, but are outside of the Twin Cities? You know, it's kind of hard sometimes to get a grasp of like, you know, are we just seeing like little snippets of things that make it look worse? Like what's you're, you've been out there now a couple times. Like what's your sense for like what's happening?
Starting point is 00:04:25 happening on the ground and like what you're hearing from friends, neighbors. Okay, well, neighbors out here, they just sit at home and watch everything that everybody else does. So that's kind of how that goes. But honestly, I got sick of it. I went down to see the Renee Good Memorial with my wife because she got sick of me complaining all day long to her about this stuff. And when I was there, I started talking to people. She was walking around. The crowds are really big.
Starting point is 00:04:48 She was taking pictures of the memorial. A lot of the signs and the memorial is really big. There's a lot of stuff there. She was taking pictures. and I just kind of sat in the back and I started talking to some people. And they were telling me their experiences. And I'm very analytical. I got to make sense of things and I got to see what's right and wrong.
Starting point is 00:05:04 And they were showing me pictures of friends, loved ones, friends, girlfriends, getting taken out of cars and detained. And a lot of them were doing nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. And we're talking about American citizens. I didn't even talk to any immigrants about, you know, illegals being taken at all. And I felt compelled to go down to Whipple. and check that out. And my wife and I went down there.
Starting point is 00:05:28 And I just kind of observed. I'm not up in front. I'm not the big rabble-rouser type guy. I'm definitely not trying to get into mischief. I don't like getting in trouble. It's never been my thing. But I started asking people stuff there and I was watching. And in my mind, I'm thinking there's got to be a better way.
Starting point is 00:05:47 Like there's got to be a better way than running up there, complaining, having them shoot tear gas and everything else. beat people up, take a guy back. It's got to be a better way. And I just kept thinking of myself and we kept going out. And I just kept observing what was going on. And I saw as I was down there, I saw American citizens coming out, you know, one every hour or so. And for most people that haven't seen the Whipple building, the drive is very long.
Starting point is 00:06:17 People are usually walking out without jackets because their jackets have been destroyed or taken. And it's very cold in Minnesota right now. And they don't, they're not allowed phone calls. So they walk out to the crowd and ask for a cell phone or something to use to call somebody to pick them up. And I was trying to get their stories about what was going on inside the building, why they were taken if they're charged with anything. And most of people were charged with absolutely nothing. And they didn't do anything wrong. They were just kind of in the wrong place at the wrong time and taken just out of circumstance because they were trying to get through traffic where ICE had stuff blocked off or, you know, stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:06:54 So you were talking to people who had been taken into detention who were American citizens and they hadn't done it. Like they weren't doing anything that was, you know, whatever, blocking ice or, you know, interfering. Like, what was the, what were their stories? Most of the people are literally doing nothing wrong. Literally. Like I said, it's the wrong place at the wrong, you know, the wrong time. Driving through, like, trying to get home and driving through an area and they get stock and get. and get taken out of the car and taken into custody.
Starting point is 00:07:26 I'm not saying that's everybody. I know there are people. Exactly. That's what I thought too, and that's why I decided to get more involved. It's just crazy what's going on here. I mean, today I was back down there, and you guys put a face out there,
Starting point is 00:07:41 so a lot of people are compelled to go down there, and I was overtaken by emotion when I got down there, seeing the crowd of people, and knowing it was probably, probably because of what they saw. And walking in the crowd, that's exactly what it was. I was getting hugs and people telling me, oh, my God, I felt like compelled to get down here. This isn't something I would normally do, but I saw you online or whatever, and it compelled them to come down.
Starting point is 00:08:10 You know, that's what was happening all day long, and the crowd was absolutely huge. But, you know, things kind of went awry at certain points. How did things go awry today? Well, today, ice kid, when they come in and out of the Whipple area, they come out in and out of the drive and they come out in front of the protesters. And they come out very fast. It's no joke. They're probably going 60 miles an hour out of a drive, turning. So they're trying to put on a spectacle, acting like assholes.
Starting point is 00:08:39 So they almost hit a protester. And there are cops down there, but they're not doing anything. They're just sitting there watching. So they almost hit a protester, which should have been illegal, right? Yeah. And the person had to jump out of the way. another protester banged on their window and the two ice agents got out they're in shorts they must have been off duty they're probably going back to their hotel or whatever i don't know why they're in shorts when it's only 10 degrees outside whatever and uh one of the guy they both jumped out looking like they wanted to fight one of the guys ran up the drive and started whipping his hand around you know like rally the troops and probably to me i didn't get an official count but we're talking 50 60 maybe 70 guys yeah came running out charged the crowd crowd, pushed people over, beat people.
Starting point is 00:09:25 I move back because I don't want to get involved in that part of this. I don't know if I'll have a choice eventually, but they usually single people out. If they see somebody do something wrong, they single them out. And the guy that hit the window and told them to knock it off, I think the guy, the guy pounded on the window because I was standing right there, told him to quit it. They didn't listen. They got out and did what they did. And then they chased them.
Starting point is 00:09:47 And they grabbed the guy. And there's seven guys on top of them beating them up. They already had them on the ground detained. And that's the type of, sorry, I'm going to swear. That's the type of fucking shit that I was talking about the other night. Like, that is the shit that I'm talking about. It's, it's insane. And in fact, I walked up to the ICE agents when they were doing that.
Starting point is 00:10:05 And I, I lit them up. And I'm like, that's the shit I was talking about in the video lot the other night. Like, this is the shit you guys are doing. Why do you have to do that? You know, okay, you want to take the kid in? Fine. Get them down, handcuff them or zip time, whatever you're going to do. But why do you?
Starting point is 00:10:20 you have to put the fucking carotid artery choke on them with the knee like they did to to uh george floyd that's what they do every time i every time i see him take somebody down down there it's like that and they and they have a number of guys on their back and they're they're knee in them and they're punching them and whatever it's uncalled for and in my eyes it's inhumane just the level of how disproportionate it is um and i didn't see that video you're ever seen today but even just from that from from the other night right it's like where they're doing the flash flashbacks and the smoke bombs, we saw the stories of the people that were just happened to be driving through with little kids that got smoke in their car and had to take
Starting point is 00:10:58 them to the hospital. Is it as bad when you're there as it looks? I mean, it seems insane, it seems insane to me that they would feel like that the smoke bombs and all that stuff was necessary, you know, given what the type of protest was. It really depends on where you are. And I'm not going to sit here and say like the whole state of Minnesota is up and, you know, like this. It's, it's more, you know, where the minorities are. are where the, I guess the immigrants are, it's in, you know, lower impoverished areas, like more towards the city, St. Paul, Minneapolis. Yes, they're out in our area.
Starting point is 00:11:32 I guess that Renee Good was killed, though, didn't, like, that looks like a normal upper middle class neighborhood, no? Not here in Minnesota. No, that's kind of, those are kind of iffy areas. I mean, that's inner city. Those houses are okay. I'm not going to put down the houses. is a nice houses or houses or houses.
Starting point is 00:11:52 Well built, probably better than built than my house, actually. But yeah, I mean, that's where they are. They are going all over the place. Like there's a holiday station store not that far from our neighborhood and somebody was detained there. But you don't see it as much out here. You know, it's every once in a while. If you have the alerts on your phone,
Starting point is 00:12:13 you'll know where they are and you'll kind of see where they're going. But other than that, it's not out in rural Minnesota. I don't think that they want to get people like me in an uproar. They don't want to get this neighborhood an uproar. They don't want these middle class people or upper middle class people, whatever you want to call us, out there, you know, trying to deal with this. It's just, I don't know, I guess I'm a little different than the people that I live around. I'm not saying they don't get mad.
Starting point is 00:12:37 They probably do, but, you know. I guess I also just meant like the nature of the protests. I mean, it was true, right, like after George Floyd, like that there was some looting and some violence. and stuff, like, in those protests. It doesn't feel like that has been happening this time. And, you know, like the videos I was seeing for that night that you were out, where they're doing the smoke bombs, like, it was apropos of nothing. Like, they were just doing it to menace people.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Is that, was that what your sense was? At that point, yes, that's what it was. There was nobody doing anything at that point. They were just, you know, it was mostly reporters or observers just trying to take down information and see what was going on. You know, a lot of people were talking in, to find out what really happened because what they said happened is it's not what happened. I can tell you that.
Starting point is 00:13:25 But I'm not going to sit and fight with the feds either. You know, they're just lying. I mean, that's what they do. Whatever. But no, when it first started down there, it was pretty ruckus. I mean, I saw the ICE officers. There weren't that many down there. They brought in reinforcements.
Starting point is 00:13:42 So when you saw that video, they kind of chilled out. I mean, they were still doing stuff, but it wasn't as bad. before that there were probably eight ice officers maybe in front of us there were some down the hill where the actual incident took place but people were surrounded them and they were literally chest to chest with them in their face so i was close enough but i wasn't one of those people and i literally saw as they got in their cars to try i saw a guy trying to grab a gun out of their holster so um i saw a guy you know jump in one of the cars with the ice ace. agent and hit them in the face. I saw some windows get busted out on one of the cars as they ran away. You know, emotions are high on both sides, honestly. And it creates a bad situation. But I will tell you, that's only a few bad apples. That's not the whole group of people that are protesting. Most of them are pretty calm. And it seems like they're trying to escalate. I guess that was my point. Not that there was no bad apples, but like that they're intentionally trying to escalate the confrontation.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Oh, definitely. They are trying to escalate the confrontation, for sure. They are. I mean, I've seen them do it all week. Tell us a little bit about you, man. A lot of folks, I think what resonated with people is you being like, I'm not a person that goes out to protest. I got to go to fucking work in the morning. Like, what's your story?
Starting point is 00:14:59 Like, why do you think this, this hits you so hard? What's your backstory? Well, I mean, I was raised. I am liberal, for sure. It's not that I don't agree with some of the things on both sides, because I don't think both sides are 100% correct by any means. But listening to the guy in office now, it's, yeah, he's something else. I mean, I think everybody can, most normal people can see that. So my backs, I mean, I'm in construction.
Starting point is 00:15:28 I'm a construction worker. I'm a union guy. I'm a hard worker, you know. The other thing that I just wonder is, so you're out there today. You said people were coming up to you and, you know, that the video had resonated with folks and anything people are getting out there. Like, what is your sense for that? Like, when you're out there at those protests,
Starting point is 00:15:51 where you've seen other folks like you who felt like they had just, this was one of their first times out there? Or what was the, what's kind of the crowd like? Today, yeah, a lot of them. I mean, I saw it a lot of the people I've seen all week. And then today it was just much bigger.
Starting point is 00:16:05 I mean, there were, a lot of people were saying they saw my video and they watched it a couple times and it really inspired them to get out and do something about this because they don't agree with it either. You know? I love that.
Starting point is 00:16:14 I mean, you really have to get, out of your comfort zone to go to one of those things because they're not the most, you know, it's not fun. It's not fun. There's better things that you could do that are more fun, obviously. And, you know, I mean, there was a guy that I talked to from Idaho who came all the way from Idaho because he saw my video three times. Idaho?
Starting point is 00:16:32 Idaho, yeah. He wanted to take a picture with me. He thanked me for the video. He said that my video, my words were very meaningful. I mean, that's what I got all day today. There was a lady from Canada. I saw people from a lot of days. different places that came in to help with this.
Starting point is 00:16:47 I mean, it's insane what's going on. Like I say, if I just stay home and I watch media and everything else, I'm never going to know the truth. I would never know they're doing that to American citizens because they don't talk about it. You know, but it's happening. That's what's happening. And that's why I got involved.
Starting point is 00:17:03 And look, we're a country of immigrants. We are. We're a country of immigrants that stole land from Native Americans. They're the people that actually own this line. They were here first. their land. We took it from them and forced them out. And now we're trying to send them back to places. Like, this was where they're from. They're indigenous to the Americas, right? It just doesn't make sense to me. Like I said, I'm very analytical and I think about all this stuff all the time.
Starting point is 00:17:33 I had, uh, I had Mayor Fry on like last week and, man, you can just tell that guy's stressed and trying to figure out what to do. And, and we were kind of talking about I, he almost was, you kind of just live on air sort of talking about the thought process of like their options like for how to deal with the ice guys right and he was like it's not it wasn't it didn't so like it was like not that they hadn't had conversations about whether or not you know they had the power to arrest ice agents that did illegal that treated you know citizens wrong or that you know the did illegal things in their own but he's like you know you can't there's an escalatory element to that and you know they've got the military on their side right like all the stuff i just
Starting point is 00:18:14 do you have what would you say to it like do you have thoughts on like what could be done at this point from like city leaders that might be helpful either in supporting the protesters or protecting people's rights or you have any thoughts on that haven't been out there well i wish they'd be out there with us honestly because it'd probably it'd probably help it'd probably keep people a little more calm i i can understand maybe tim wall's not being out there because because of what they've done to him here you know i i feel bad for that guy because he's actually a very nice human being you know know. Yeah. But yeah, I wish they were out there side by side with us because it would really make a difference if some of them were out with us. Them being the politicians or the police cops. The cops were there all day. There's there were there were eight cop cars parked there all day. They sat in their car and watched everything that happened. When I left, everything went totally haywire. There was a so there's, I don't know if you know all this, but there's three Native American people that were were detained, I believe two days ago. And they only found one of them when they came to pick them up.
Starting point is 00:19:14 because it's illegal for them to detain them, you know, and they took them off tribal land. They can't find the other two. So there's been Native American Indians coming down and protesting with everybody. And there was a girl that came down later in the afternoon. And my daughter and I were going to leave, but I was watching her. She'd sit down by the protesters, get up and do like some dancing and then go towards the federal property and sit on the federal property and then get back up and go back. well the last time she went forward a couple agents came down like four of them and i don't know if they i wasn't i didn't see the whole thing happen but i saw probably half the protesters go towards the federal land and i was like oh shit here we go right they got on the federal land and uh
Starting point is 00:20:01 the feds came down probably i don't 60 70 of them and i felt compelled to go back towards my daughter, we had to get back for this, but I felt compelled to go back with my megaphone and try and get them to back us to back up, the protesters. I was talking to the protests and I made sure to say that. I wasn't talking to ICE. I was trying to tell the protesters to move back because a lot of the protesters that came out, whether it was because of what they saw me do or because of their own, you know, they were not prepared for this type of thing. You know, I've been on there a few times I know what they've been doing. So I saw lots of people get really badly injured. There are medics there that are volunteering their time. But I had to go back into the crowd to ask for medics
Starting point is 00:20:49 because the people didn't listen. I was trying to tell them to move back. Like you can stay and do it peacefully and they won't do much. They might come out, try scare tactics or whatever, but they always back up. They don't do anything. They don't take anybody. But as soon as you go off the sidewalk across the street or wherever, you know, on that property over the sidewalk on the other side of the street, once you enter the street, they get more aggressive. And they also have drones flying overhead watching what's going on. So they single people out. They know who they're going to grab. They don't just randomly grab anybody most of the time. Most of the time they're chased people through the crowd. But on the way through the crowd, they'll punch you, they'll knock you over. They don't
Starting point is 00:21:26 care. They just run right through everybody like your bowling pins and people are on the ground. I know the guy from Idaho got knocked over and punched in the side twice. They didn't detain him. That's all they did to him. So thuggish. So fucking, right. There was one girl that got knocked down.
Starting point is 00:21:41 She was bawling. She hit her head on the concrete. And they grabbed her by the leg and dragged her all the way across the damn road onto the federal land and detained her over there. And she was injured. She was hurt. She was crying. There was no reason to even detain her because she didn't even do anything wrong.
Starting point is 00:21:55 People were maced, pepperballed again. You know, this is all stuff the federal. judge ordered not to happen anymore. You know, the peace, the, the protesters are peaceful all day. And this is the thing. So when I was walking to my car after I got more medics and after I got, there's a, the people, the girl that got detained, she's from St. Cloud, which is probably an hour and a half north of here. I had to help them because there is, there isn't, the attorney's guild is down there to help people. They're the only ones I can get in the building to check on people. So they, when somebody gets detained, they try to find somebody involved.
Starting point is 00:22:31 that was with them so they can get their phone number and everything else and then they can get in the building and talk to the people and figure out what's going on. So I had to find them. The crowd was pretty not ruckus because these were not the type of people that were causing huge problems. These are people like me. A lot of the people are like me that are down there. The most ruckest guy that was down there was the woke farmer. I think he, is that what his name is? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I don't know the woke farmer. He calls himself the woke farmer. He was down there. He gets involved because he's at all the protests. all over the country and he gets pretty riled up. But he's already been arrested twice while he's been here. And they told him if he gets on the, if he goes on to the street,
Starting point is 00:23:09 he's going to get a felony and he doesn't want a felony. So he has not been going on the street. But he's very loud and he gets pretty riled up. But I know exactly what happened. So as I was walking to my car, I saw CBS News set up. We all know what's going on with CBS News, right? So a big breaking report on the internal bleeding
Starting point is 00:23:27 of the guy that killed René Good. Oh, yeah. I think it was in the trigger finger. Isn't that awesome? Yeah, hemorrhoids, you think? I thought it was in the trigger finger, the internal bleeding. I don't know. The report up here is that he has, I was bleeding hemorrhoids.
Starting point is 00:23:41 That's what I heard. Yeah. So anyway, CBS News was there. And all week, when CBS News shows up and they start recording, they get the propaganda. You know, it's the propaganda machine now. It's Donald Trump's propaganda machine. So what happens is all these guards come out, cause ruckus, beat people up, do whatever they're doing, maize people. then they go back onto the property and they all line up almost like you would see in Star Wars,
Starting point is 00:24:05 in Rhodes. And they break apart in the middle and guess who comes out? Bovino comes out in his SS trench coat every single time. And then they come out and they start doing shit again. So I was fighting with the CBS News people because they are the cause of what just happened. The people there were very peaceful all day long. I was there from noon till almost six o'clock. and there was only one incident,
Starting point is 00:24:32 and that's when those guys touched the car, which that shouldn't happen either because they were just trying to tell those guys to slow down, right? They just pounded down the window and said, knock it off. That's all that happened. And they took those four guys.
Starting point is 00:24:42 They're not even detained there. They sent them out to another detention center in another state. And they're from Minnesota. Really? Yeah, I've talked to all four of those guys before. Yeah, they're gone. I don't know where they went,
Starting point is 00:24:53 but that's what I was told by the media person that's on hand at the site. Wow. But every time CBS shows up, it's total anarchy because that's what they want. They want to show that to the public. And I, that's an odd Fox news to me. It's just opinion-based bullshit, honestly. I don't, man, I'm listening to all this.
Starting point is 00:25:13 And it's just like, look, I used to be a Republican. And I think about the, uh, the don't tread on me flag crowd. And I just don't know how long people can stand this stuff. Like, you hear your story. You hear this. And it's like, it's very un-American. So you got these mass thugs. the little guy in the trench coat and they're pushing women to the ground and detaining citizens.
Starting point is 00:25:34 I'm just like every little anecdote you told me feels like it is an affront to that ethos, you know, of don't tread on me and of, you know, kind of American liberty and freedom. I'm just kind of wondering if you had any kind of last thoughts on that. Well, I mean, we are in America and this, what I'm seeing out there is not American. This is not where I grew up. I mean, I grew up and it was peaceful. In fact, Minnesota is a really peaceful, nice place. It's always rated what one of the top places to live.
Starting point is 00:26:04 And I mean, it's a great place to be. But then these guys show up and it's not anymore. And I mean, it sucks. Yeah. Do you grow up there? I grew up in Minnesota. Yeah, I was born here in Minneapolis. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:17 All right. I love that accent. You got like a kind of a hard scrabble Minnesota accent. You know, some of the Minnesotans have a little bit of a soft kind of lil My voice is very hoarse from being tear gassed all week, basically. Like I said, I've never been in this situation before. I've never had tear gas. I've never been shot with any of this stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:38 So to me, this is all new. But now at first I was kind of scared, but now I'm used to it and whatever. It is what it is. I'm going to keep being out there for people. This is ridiculous. It's got to stop. I don't know what it's going to take to make it stop. I mean, you guys, thankfully, gave me a face.
Starting point is 00:26:54 I don't seek out attention. I didn't seek out that interview. I know there's some people out there looking to interview and stuff. I wasn't trying to do that. He just wanted to follow me around and talk to me. And I was just flying off the cuff. And I was kind of pissed at the moment as well, you know. Well, man, we're all right.
Starting point is 00:27:09 You guys gave me a face. And I'm trying to jumpstart a platform to help this cause, you know. Happy to do it, man. It was worth it. And look, what you said resonated with people because it was fucking raw and real. And we are pissed. And these guys are a bunch of assholes. and it's good to see folks out there who, you know, have just had enough.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Yeah, it's going to take the everyday average American to stand up for this to happen. And I think that would be their biggest fear is that more people come out of the suburbs to try to help out. Because they don't attack the suburbs, you know. It's they might send a car out to pick up a guy here or there, but they don't, you know, they're not causing anarchy out here. So people think, out of side, out of mind, it's not happening, you know. Yeah. It's not like the whole state of Minnesota is on fire.
Starting point is 00:27:58 It's just certain areas. But once you insert yourself into it, you start to see what's really going on out there. And it's wrong. Whether you live where I live or whether you live right in the middle of it, it's wrong, no matter what. You know, this is a humanitarian thing as far as I'm concerned. It's not about right or left anymore. It's not political at all. It's 100% about right and wrong.
Starting point is 00:28:21 You have to have some morals, you know. you have to have some conviction of some sort. So that's why I'm out there. Man, I appreciate you very much. Keep us posted. Some of these anecdotes that you're getting from just like actually talking to the people that are coming out of the detention center are real and important news. And it sounds like some of the so-called news outlets that are out there aren't doing those interviews. We'd love for you to keep us posted on all that as you're hearing more of these stories.
Starting point is 00:28:49 I appreciate you. Appreciate your fire. and good luck out there, brother. Stay safe. Stay safe. I'd love to keep in touch with you guys. All right, sounds good. We'll be talking to you then. That's Chris Astrosho out there, Minneapolis.
Starting point is 00:29:04 We'll play as great as since one more time on the way out for everybody. And we'll be back here soon, all right? All right, thank you. This is nuts. This is fucking, yeah, and you're right in the middle of this shit. What the fuck is going on, dude? This is insane. Have you ever gone out to these sort of things before?
Starting point is 00:29:21 Never. Never. I've never protested in my life. My brother, my brother's here. He does it all the time. I've never. I got, dude, like I said, I'm far enough away, but close enough. And I'm sitting in my cushy house and look at shit and get mad. And I, yeah. They're just trying to fucking scare people and, you know, but, but why shoot people? My, no, you know what really pisses me off is the fact that they detain people, cuff them and then still beat the shit out of them. They tell you it's immigrants, only immigrants. It's fucking anybody. I have friends that got detained and all they were doing was fucking driving home from work. What the fuck? Sounds like you don't fit the definition of the... I'm not fucking paid to be here like everybody fucking says. What the fuck is that? I got to work in the goddamn morning, just like everybody else. I'm just here trying to stand up for community, dude.
Starting point is 00:30:10 We're all human beings here. I don't give a shit who you are, where you came from, what color you are. It doesn't fucking matter. This is wrong.

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