Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the bulwark. It's pretty late on Friday.

It's been a long week. I'm pretty tired. But there's some breaking news out of Minnesota tonight.

Actually, two pretty big stories that I just wanted to address and bring you.

The first one, I think, is probably more important, definitely more important, although it could be appealed.

But a federal judge on Friday evening issued a ruling.

I think it was like an 80-page ruling that was pretty significant.

The ruling barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters

and from using non-lethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.

So obviously this is a big deal.

You've been seeing tons of footage from Minneapolis showing ICE agents, border patrol agents,

federal agents, really using aggressive tactics against peaceful demonstrators.

We've had anecdotal evidence.

We've had stories of families.

There's one really horrifying story about this father who was taking his six kids home, I believe

it was, and one of the girls, a six-month-old, couldn't even breathe because they had launched

gas canisters and they'd gone into the car. In theory, this ruling, this issue, this order from the federal judge should

put a stop to that. Basically, it says you can't do that stuff. The judge who issued the order,

U.S. District Judge Kaitman, and this abide in appointee. The thing is it's going to be appealed,

right? So the Trump administration is going to appeal it. We'll see what happens. But it's the first real case, I think at this point,

of a federal judge intervening in the ICE operations, Operation Metro Surge, which is what they're

calling what's happening in Minneapolis.

And I'm just going to play two video clips so you can get a sense of the type of stuff that we're talking about.

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