People who followed ICE in their cars to observe, beaten, detained, or otherwise harmed by officers

Stories describe people who followed or filmed ICE vehicles while monitoring enforcement operations, including in Minneapolis, Richfield, and Woodbury, Minnesota, and in California, Oregon, New Jersey, Maine, and New York. Observers report being rammed by vehicles, pepper-sprayed, teargassed, held at gunpoint, boxed in, or detained for hours without charge, with some cases resulting in arrest or lawsuits. First documented in January 2025, this practice became recurring in November 2025, which was also its peak month, and now makes up a smaller share of reported stories than at that peak.

“I said to the tow truck driver, 'You know, you should be ashamed of yourself, working for ICE,' and he got crazy,”