Independent journalist Cam Higby, on Saturday, blew the lid off the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests by revealing their training and communications methods, including some very interesting specifics.
🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 24, 2026
I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.
BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED
Each area of the city has a signal… pic.twitter.com/ATSHlCucWv
The post continues:
Each area of the city has a signal or several signals. Let’s start with a screen recording of all members of the south side group to start.
Mr. Higby also presents what is claimed to be the entire training manual for these patrols.:
🚨🚨 Here is the entire TRAINING MANUAL for domestic terrorist patrols chasing ICE agents in Minneapolis.
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 25, 2026
Keep in mind, this is the watered down opsec version.
MUST READ ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rUMAJPOxUG
Both of these threads bear reading, but here are a few key points:
These training materials and the setup of this online system indicate that someone with some money is behind all this. These materials mention "patrol training" and mention the use of the Signal chat system. Mr. Higby presents some rather sophisticated maps, with the city broken up into patrol zones, based loosely, they say, on city council districts. Is this intended to put pressure on local politicians? Or to involve them?
The materials also mention a database of license plate numbers of known ICE vehicles. There are several videos, including one in which an ordinary citizen is followed by protestors by mistake; it doesn't take a lot of imagination to know how badly wrong that could go. One slide presents the SALUTE acronym used by United States military forces for reporting observations of the enemy: Size/Strength, Actions/Activity, Location, Uniform, Time/Date, and Equipment. Are there former military behind some of this? Not necessarily; this SALUTE process isn't exactly top secret stuff, and it's a logical way to organize a report. But it reveals a level of preparation and organization that isn't commonly found in supposedly spontaneous protests.
This appears to be an organized, funded, and fairly sophisticated opposition.
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RedState's own Jennifer Van Laar has independent confirmation of Mr. Higby's reporting:
This goes along with what I was told by SIGINT sources earlier this week, which was that they are seeing increased chatter from these well-organized groups on the left discussing using EFP's, IED's, complex ambush setups and doing rifle and pistol drills designed for shot… https://t.co/1GAt8GVKYM
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) January 24, 2026
She writes:
This goes along with what I was told by SIGINT sources earlier this week, which was that they are seeing increased chatter from these well-organized groups on the left discussing using EFP's, IED's, complex ambush setups and doing rifle and pistol drills designed for shot placement where body armor does not protect.
The information about how to bypass body armor, the rifle and pistol training, ambush training, and even the mention of improvised explosives would seem to indicate that these "protestors" are willing to take things quite a bit further than they have in the past. We haven't seen any of these tactics put into effect, of course; at least, not yet.
This is all part of a much bigger developing story. Stay tuned. This whole thing may be about to get very interesting indeed.
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