I’m beginning to think there are no protesters because no one is paying for them. I’d bet the anti-ICE protesters are mostly paid, with some true-believer marxists leading them.
Having carefully watched lots of videos from all over the country, I can testify that there are several different types of people in the “protest”
The largest group are there because they want to make a difference. Their activity is shouting, carrying signs and above all taking pictures. Without a doubt, the overwhelming majority of the protesters are just taking video.
The videos are in fact selfies that pretend to be doing something but are in fact proof that I was there.
The second group are the professionals who are likely paid to be there. They are invariably dressed in black, masked, gas masked, very vocal and always pushing the line as close to the breaking point as possible. There is almost always one or two supervisors present who give direction and sometimes actually initiate a retreat.
A subgroup sometimes present are those who are on the front line wearing the bright green hats or vests or scarves. They are said to be the legal observers. They are in fact professional protesters too.
I must indicate that among the nonpros are a zealot minority that push the protest beyond the limits set by ICE. Tey are very often women who have been labeled as Karens. They demonstrate and yell about being thrown to the ground while resisting. They claim immunity from being thrown on the ground because they are women.
In Minneapolis, there is now a very large group of camera carrying photojournalists. It seems that they hog the line preventing the others with cell phones from getting the best photo vantage. They are quite persistent and are constantly forced to back off by the ICE cops protecting those ICE cops involved with subduing the terrorist thrashing about on the snow resisting arrest