Leaked Secret Chats Show Plans Behind Anti-ICE Protests
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The private social media chats of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis have been leaked online. They show heavy coordination, training, financing, and political involvement.
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Secret chats of the anti-ice protesters, Minneapolis. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, they've been leaked. We peel back the curtain and we see the little man pulling the levers behind it. |
| 0:10.0 | There's a lot of planning involved. There's heavy coordination. There's training. There's financing. |
| 0:15.0 | And guess what? There's also political involvement. |
| 0:19.0 | We're going into these. |
| 0:20.0 | On a related point, a lot of media coverage over the anti-ist protest is focused on Alex Preti, |
| 0:24.6 | who is shot and killed in Minneapolis after he brandished a firearm at ICE officers, |
| 0:29.6 | which then discharged whether he fired it or dropped it. |
| 0:32.6 | Now, he's become a narrative of a martyr of the whole movement, |
| 0:36.6 | somebody who brings a gun to a protest for some reason. |
| 0:40.8 | And now news outlets were caught even editing his photograph to make him look more attractive. |
| 0:48.1 | They were actually altering his photo, I'll be showing you that. |
| 0:51.7 | Also another topic, Los Angeles was ravaged a while back by the |
| 0:55.8 | Palisades fires, and now, well, guess what? Los Angeles has not really made a priority of rebuilding. |
| 1:02.6 | In fact, they've barely done anything. And so President Donald Trump announced he's going to step in |
| 1:07.9 | from the federal level and make this an effort of the federal government to rebuild Los Angeles. |
| 1:13.3 | I'll be going into these topics and a whole lot more today. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:27.3 | The private chats of the anti-ice protesters in Minneapolis, they've been leaked to the internet for all of us to see. |
| 1:35.3 | And guess what? Well, it turns out these are not random grassroots protests. |
| 1:40.3 | These are heavily organized, heavily coordinated organizations with training, financing, |
| 1:48.0 | and big old political people involved with it. Now the leaks have mainly come through news |
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