ICE Dragged an Old Man Into the Snow. Now DHS Is Lying About It.
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Sam Stein and Tim Miller give their takes on the disturbing footage of ICE agents detaining an elderly U.S. citizen in Minneapolis with no warrant, no explanation, and no apology. The raid went wrong at every step and DHS is still defending it.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwark. |
| 0:02.4 | And I'm here with Tim Miller. |
| 0:04.5 | It's MLK Day, putting the work. |
| 0:07.6 | We are monitoring the situation in Minnesota, as usual. |
| 0:11.4 | And honestly, Tim, it's like we could probably record one of these every three hours. |
| 0:16.0 | For sure. |
| 0:16.5 | Every three hours. |
| 0:17.3 | So it's like, you know, trying to be a little bit more selective with what we're doing. But this video has been blowing up throughout the last 20 hours. So it's like, you know, trying to be a little bit more selective with what we're doing. |
| 0:21.4 | But this video has been blowing up throughout the last 24 hours. Basically, it involves a confrontation |
| 0:27.9 | with an elderly man. I believe it's Chung Lee Scott Tao, who on January 18th, around 1.30 p.m. A group of ice agents like seven or eight or whatever just |
| 0:40.2 | storm his house, drag him out as he's in a bathrobe and shorts or underwear. I don't even know. |
| 0:47.9 | It's fucking freezing out there. And they just bring him to their SUVs. It's placed in SUV, question for an hour, fingerprinted, and then ICE confirms what they should have known from the start, which is that he's a U.S. citizen. |
| 1:02.6 | He has no criminal record. |
| 1:04.2 | And what happens? |
| 1:05.0 | He gets dropped back at his home. |
| 1:06.8 | It is a startling video. |
| 1:09.6 | I was wondering, any initial thoughts on when you first saw this? |
| 1:14.3 | Well, I think this is particularly sad, you know, because it's, we've been obviously focusing |
| 1:19.0 | on the Somali community in Minnesota. |
| 1:22.4 | But there's also this big Hmong community, Asian immigrants, small, tight-knit group that had been kind of soft |
| 1:31.2 | Republican supporters back when I was a Republican. I was mostly familiar with the mungs from |
| 1:36.3 | like the outreach to that group during election season, typical. And from the movie Grand |
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