🌱 Patch AM: What really happened during the noisy ICE protest at an Edina hotel?

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• What really happened during the noisy ICE protest at an Edina hotel?

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📰 News we're reading

• POLICE REPORT: Noise protest held at Edina hotel allegedly hosting ICE agents (hometownsource.com) — Edina residents recently saw a large, noisy protest outside the Homewood Suites hotel, where more than 100 demonstrators targeted ICE agents allegedly staying there until police dispersed the crowd. Edina officers, backed by several neighboring departments, responded to escalating behavior that included pounding on hotel doors, honking near Southdale, and shining lights into rooms before clearing the area around 10:30 p.m.
   

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Friday December 19

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• Bloomington police are searching for a male suspect, originally wanted for shoplifting, who fled on foot and may be armed.
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Eden Prairie

• Minnetonka police reports Dec. 7-13 (hometownsource.com)

Minneapolis

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