Moment ICE take down protester dressed as giraffe as wave of officers walk down middle of road
A Reddit post shows masked DHS agents arresting a man in a giraffe costume identified as Rob Potylo, also known as Robby the Roadsteamer
Social media video captured the moment a protestor dressed as a giraffe is arrested and swarmed by a gaggle of masked DHS and ICE agents walking down a city road in Minneapolis.
The video, posted to the Reddit threat r/ICE Raids, is captioned “Robby the Roadsteamr has been arrested by ICE in Minneapolis.”
In the video, the man in the costume, identified as Rob Potylo, aka Robby Roadsteamer, is seen speaking into a microphone as a group of at least a dozen ICE and DHS officers march towards him.
"Where are we going you want us over here," Potylo says into the microphone as the federal agents get closer. "Oh, we got the power march," he commented, moments before two DHS officers grab him and pull him to the ground.
The two agents are then seen holding Potylo to the ground as another group of agents stand in front of protesters decrying the arrest.
Protesters can be heard shouting "coward," and "leave the graiffe alone" during Potylo's arrest.
"Free Robby" they yell in another chant.
This isn't Potylo's first run in with ICE and DHS. THe political jester was arrested October of last year by federal agents in Portland, Oregon. He had joined a group of animal costumed protesters that had been dancing and opposing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement initiatives.
Minnesota has been faced with days long protests following the ICE involved shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.
Good, a U.S. citizen born in Colorado, and mother of three, was new to Minnesota.
She appeared to have never been charged with anything regarding law enforcement beyond a traffic violation.
Good’s ex-husband, who asked to stay anonymous for the safety of their children, told the press that she had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school on Wednesday when she and her current partner, who were driving home, encountered a group of ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Social media video shows the moments leading up to Good’s shooting. An ICE officer approached her car and demanded she open the door, and grabbed the handle.
When she begins to pull forward, a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range.
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United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Good was committing an act of "domestic terrorism" in a press conference. The Department of Homeland Security claimed the woman "weaponized her vehicle" and branded the incident an "act of domestic terrorism," a statement echoed by Noem during that press conference from Texas.
Good’s ex-husband asserted that she was not an activist and that he had never known her to participate in any protests.
