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Posted on 06/19/2026 11:54:13 AM PDT by simpson96
One of 15 Minnesotans charged with conspiring against ICE officers turned herself into officials Wednesday morning.
Federal officials arrested most of the defendants Tuesday and they had their first appearance in court for efforts to “violently oppose immigration law enforcement."
U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen had called the defendants yet to be detained "fugitives at-large."
But one of them, Natasha Rakotz, denies the charges — and the label.
“I think all of this is absolutely ridiculous. I am not a violent person. I've never been violent. I've never had trouble with the law,” she said. “The only thing I did was care about my community, and my neighbors…I can't just sit there and not do anything, but I definitely would never do anything illegal.”
Rakotz says she was home when law enforcement came knocking Tuesday. She called her lawyers and had waited for them to verify the warrant.
Attorney James Cook says he went to court on her behalf Tuesday and let prosecution know she was willing to comply.
The 45-year-old Minneapolis resident faces charges for assault and “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.”
The indictment alleges Rakotz tracked license plates of federal agents' cars and shared findings in Signal group chats. It also claims on or about May 18, 2026, she followed a federal immigration officer’s vehicle from the Whipple Building while driving a Honda Civic, “brake checked” the officer and “side swiped” their vehicle, leading to a collision. This reportedly “caused physical contact and inflicted bodily injury” to the officer, according to the document.
Rakotz and her attorneys declined to comment on her involvement during the ICE surge or on the alleged collision.
Her neighbor Jodi Wishart vouched for Rakotz outside the courthouse.
“She is the kindest person, and so gentle, and so just peaceful,” Wishart said.
Wishart says Rakotz, an in-home healthcare aide, had worked for an elder neighbor and did such a good job that the family invited her to continue living at the house for free even after the woman died.
Rakotz was arraigned and posted bond at a hearing Wednesday afternoon. Rakotz and at least 12 codefendants were out of custody as of Wednesday evening.
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Lol!
Lots of J6 folks were kinda peaceful and stuff too. But, years of detention.....
If it was an elder Trump supporter, she'd kill her.
Only a raging woke democrat would hire someone who looks like that.
Well I think that the GOOD NEWS 📰📰📰 is that
we may have finally, FINALLY found a wife for Laz..
Oops 😬 she may already be taken
Sorry bro
(She needs to have an “accident.”)
Have you seen her hair?
Apparently her barber 💈💈💈...
Is their some way to deport this useless, clueless criminal??? Hopefully, she will serve some prison time...at a minimum.
Kind? Gentle? Peaceful?
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Well, then. She should certainly be a model prisoner.
“Have you seen her hair?”
She comes in colours ev’rywhere
She combs her hair
She’s like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, ev’rywhere
She comes in colour
Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you?
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white, so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?
She comes in colours ev’rywhere...
She even looks like Antifa. No wonder they wear face coverings.
Gotta love her hair
😃😂🤣🤣🤣
In other news....
A leftist man has been arrested for cutting President Trump’s new American flag blue sealant and tearing it off the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.
These criminals are destroying their own nation’s capital.
Probably one of those fascist Handmaiden tails that wear the little red riding hood caps and Elizabethan dog collars to keep from licking themselves.
,,, we can deduce that the neighbor wasn't an ICE agent.
People who knew Ted Bundy (a Florida serial killer) said he was charming...
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