Frontlines TPUSA reporter Jonathan Choe uncovered key details behind taxpayer-funded businesses that are directly involved in the anti-ICE protests taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Of particular interest in the report is a coffee shop called PowWow Grounds, which shares a space with All My Relations, an art gallery that is presently being used to provide protest equipment to anti-ICE demonstrators.
Choe interviewed Crow Bellecourt, one of the individuals managing the equipment supply efforts from the gallery. He also leads the advocacy group Indigenous Protector Movement. Bellecourt said he has an “all hands on deck” approach to his equipment supply efforts, which he claims is financially supported by the local community.
“We encourage legal observing [and] recording because some of this is going to come to light,” Bellecourt said. When asked about radical activists, he said he hasn’t seen “too many” Antifa members or anarchists come through his doors.
Bob Rice, another individual involved with the gallery, chose not to talk with Choe after being asked “probing questions.” Choe was assaulted upon leaving the building, as an angry associate noticed him recording the activity taking place there.
Frontlines TPUSA eventually discovered that PowWow Grounds is a for-profit business filed as an LLC. However, Indigenous Protector Movement is a non-profit organization that has received more than $200,000 in government money according to last year’s tax filings. Native American Community Development Institute, the organization that runs the gallery, received $500,000 in taxpayer handouts.
Minnesota State Representative Peggy Bennett spoke with Choe on the subject, expressing concern with the use of these funds as a means to support resistance efforts against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The intention of these efforts, Bennett noted, could be to provoke officers to violence for reasons that could be propagandistic.
