(The Center Square) – A systematic organization behind riots in Minnesota exposed through leaked group chats is under investigation, says FBI Director Kash Patel.
Patel said the FBI is investigating what is legal and illegal in the protests. He added that he was also made aware of reporting done by Cam Higby, a self-described “independent investigative journalist and political commentator” according to his website.
Higby says he infiltrated the encrypted Signal group chats used by those rioting.
“We look at all this stuff,” Patel said. “As soon as Higby put that post out, I opened an investigation on it. We immediately opened up that investigation because that sort of Signal chat, being coordinated with individuals not just locally in Minnesota – but maybe even around the country – if that leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people.”
Reports on the ground and from the Signal chats say protestors are well-organized, have means of communication they are using to coordinate tracking of federal law enforcement, and even have a database they are using to input license plate numbers and dox agents.
Patel said that, while peaceful protesting is legal, that would not be permitted.
“You cannot create a scenario that illegally traps and puts law enforcement in harm’s way,” Patel said. “We have to let the community know that we will not tolerate acts of violence.”
Higby first released information about the Signal chats on Saturday, the same day federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The shooting was the third in 18 days by federal agents in Operation Metro Surge.
“I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents,” Higby said in his initial social media post. “Each area of the city has a signal or several signals.”
Higby says protestors have handbooks, training manuals and webinars, and dispatchers. TCS has not confirmed the findings.
Other reports accuse various state officials of being involved in the chats, including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. TCS has not confirmed the reports.
Flanagan has not responded to the accusations, which quickly began spreading online. She has been previously outspoken against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, urging community members at a recent event to “get trained up.”
“Enough is enough,” Flanagan said on Saturday. “They are killing us in the streets. The Senate cannot send one more penny to ICE.”
Flanagan is running in 2026 to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate.
Since Saturday, riots have only further escalated. Second-term Democratic Gov. Tim Walz deployed 1,500 members of the National Guard, and federal officials have continued their enhanced enforcement of federal immigration law.
President Donald Trump said local and state officials are contributing to the rising tensions, both through their rhetoric and by refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
On social media, he wrote that “sanctuary cities and states are refusing to cooperate with ICE, and they are actually encouraging left-wing agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations.”
The second-term Republican president said, “Democrats are putting illegal alien criminals over taxpaying, law-abiding citizens, and they have created dangerous circumstances for everyone involved.”
He said the loss of two lives was at the hands of Democrats, causing chaos.
Elyse Apel, a graduate of Hillsdale College, is a reporter for The Center Square covering Colorado and Michigan. Her writing has been published in a wide variety of national publications from the Washington Examiner to The American Spectator and The Daily Wire.
Reprinted with permission from The Center Square by Elyse Apel.
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.
Thank you Cam Higby for your persistent investigative reporting. It’s amazing what one person with the grit to get to the truth can do without costing the tax payers a dime. You have found valuable information, now what will the FBI do? They have an endless supply of our tax dollars and they weren’t even looking for what you alone were able to uncover. God bless you, Cam. Excellent work and determination.
Protesters are as well organized as the “migrants” traveling through Mexico. Well fed, shod and watered cell phones in order. Those are not refugees but invaders. Aided and helped along by the elected officials in this country who are suppose to protect it Same as the paid agitators and peace disturbers calling themselves peaceful protesters .All the reasoning and attempts to negotiate pours the gas on their fire, they will have every reason to think they won if this law breaking is not treated for what it is. Mutiny.
Everyone should see the video or read the transcript of the Bill O’Reilly daily report. He outlines who is behind these rebellions. Yes, the Communists and their radical liberals of the Democrat Party are trying to over- throw our government through these rebellions. The GOP better get ready for mass rebellions as the year progresses. Pray for our country!!!
These people are more “insurrectionist” than the J6ers. Conservative America NEEDS to see people prosecuted and punished if found guilty. Enough is enough. This IS a war. It needs to be prosecuted as such.
This is not organic, these protests are funded by Billionaire tech mogul Connecticut born Neville Roy Singham (married to Jodie Evans, the founder of the radical group Code Pink). He is a communist living in Shanghai, China. There’s an organization called Breakthrough News, registered in the USA. He’s behind pushing all of these confrontations. They are pumping all kinds of money into Minneapolis to agitate it. He is using organizations in the United States to over throw The United States. Using organizations like, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, Black Lives Matter chapters.
Of course these rebellions are planned well and funded by Communist groups. You don’t need to tell us that. What we do need is a federal investigator to actually apprehend those in charge and arrest them! Talk means nothing! It is high time we citizens see some real action against these traitors who are trying to overthrow our government!
Go Kash! Get after these Seditionists, lovers of Illegal Criminality, GOD hating demoncRats!!!
It took Higby to expose it & yet NO APPREHENSIONS!?!? Cmon, Kash nail these bottom feeding vermin before they fly out.
Dont forget “Flan”.
We can all do a little something and maybe it will help. The criminal MN state official, Flanagan, is running for the U.S.Senate. We can all send a donation to the real American who is running against her, His name is Schwarze. I found this:
Schwarze For Senate. P.O.Box 8. Savage, MN 55378
He is a Republican.
same for 2020 riots for Floyd??
Behind every horrendous crime, a Democrat hides.
The ability for these groups to be able to follow the troops is DANGEROUS. THIS IS AN IMPORTNANT PEACE OF INFORMATION WHICH MUST BE PUT OUT FOR THE AMERICA TO KNOW.
IMO, the real problem is the media. If they quit reporting on what these wretched people are doing in Minneapolis the protests and violence will stop. What the organizers want is to make this look like national insurrection (and what Walz, Frey and Ellison want is to make coverage of the fraud in the Somali community go away).
It’s about time! These paid protesters are being paid by those wanting to destroy our republic.
Never been about a peaceful protest with people looking for a solution. It’s about marxist,anti American,power hungry, corrupt losers upset about being exposed and their crimes being stopped.
Don’t forget how much outright THEFT from Taxpayers the maxist democrat party and liberal
complicent organizations have had their money flow stopped.
These so called demonstrations are an attempt to change the narrative and buy some time for them to cover their tracks.
NOTHING more, they’re PAID trouble makers.
I saw last night that one of the financiers is living in Red China. He has not registered as a lobbyist and thus is breaking FARA like Hunter [no punishment] and Kerry [no punishment].
We have no room in our society for elements that would destroy us. That is unless we are willing to give up our society. The sooner we toughen and resist the siren calls to destroy ourselves the sooner we start on the road to recover our country.
The LEFT thrives on turning our members into drones for their own enterprise. The nurse in MN was fired by the VA for becoming a drone to the LEFT and complaints of abuse by our veterans. Too many seemingly reasonable people jumped when the LEFT narrative came out claiming “murder”. Wait for the proper investigation!
I do believe that dems pay for every violent act committed in America just to further their evil agenda along. Their base is just as crazy and evil as they are.
It is time Mr. Patel went after these COMMUNIST disrupters. Let’s get’um Mr. Patel
All of the acronym government groups have had the goods on these rioters and anarchy tribes for years and are always “going to get to the bottom of this”. Legal watchdog groups have already investigated and documented and are ready to educate the acronym groups. There’s no plan for intervening on behalf of law abiding citizens. A whole lot wrong with this picture. It’s the umpteenth time it’s been reported on and investigated. Somebody kick the victrola, it’s stuck. Very disappointing to read and reread this same story over