Paul Allen, radio voice of the Vikings, mocks Minnesota protestors
In front of tens of thousands of protesters We marched in Minneapolis on Friday They were mocked for the sound of the Minnesota Vikings as they demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents leave Minnesota.
Protesters marched from Commons Park on the edge of downtown to the rally at Target Center, with temperatures hovering around 10 degrees below zero.
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While discussing the standoff with former Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway, Allen said: “In conditions like this, are paid protesters getting hazard pay? Those are things I was thinking about this morning.”
The moment was saved suckannouncing.com And can be heard here.
“I probably won’t touch it,” Greenway said. An audio clip was released by website suckannouncing.com.
Allen continued. “Everyone is catching stragglers this week,” he said, referring to NFL quarterback Baker Mayfield and former NFL QB Charlie Batch. “It’s all over. Protesters caught one this morning.”
This statement, which promotes the false narrative that protesters are paid by left-wing groups, is often made to undermine the importance of social protests. It drew immediate reaction on social media.
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Minnesotans are protesting the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement campaign in the Twin Cities called “Operation Metro Surge.” Since it began in December, federal agents have shot and killed two Minneapolis residents. Renee Macklin Good on January 7 And Alex Pretti on Saturday. Both were 37 years old and US citizens.
Open department website“Over the last 6 weeks, our courageous DHS law enforcement officers have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens,” said DHS director Kristi Noem.
A message left on Allen’s phone Saturday went unanswered, and the show’s producer, Eric Nordquist, declined to comment.
There was no response to the email sent to the Vikings.
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On Saturday at 13.30, Allen shared a post on X.com this seemed to be a response to many posts – Some angry, some supportive – tag your account.
“I need to stop watching all this for a while. It makes me so sad that this terrorism is happening everywhere in MN,” he wrote. “I prayed to God that it would somehow stop and now I started crying.
“I’m truly sorry for everyone who has suffered as much as I have over this incident, and I want us to be a Love Pact again. Really. Let’s all pray that this stops somehow, because it sucks. And no more cheap one-liners from me.”
