In a scene that perfectly captures the lawlessness and radicalism now commonplace in Minnesota’s Democrat-led government, two state lawmakers were caught on camera joining an anti-ICE mob as federal agents attempted to arrest a violent illegal alien in St. Paul on November 25, 2025.
The target of the operation was Victor Molina Rodriguez, a Honduran national with a long criminal record, including convictions for domestic abuse and disorderly conduct. Homeland Security agents were conducting a lawful arrest as part of a broader Trump Administration crackdown on dangerous illegals who have been freely roaming “sanctuary” cities for years under Democrat protection.
But instead of helping facilitate justice, Democratic State Reps. Athena Hollins and Liish Kozlowski literally inserted themselves into the mob, blocking ICE agents and escalating tensions. Both were pepper-sprayed after refusing to comply with police commands — a fact they conveniently left out while later portraying themselves as victims.
The footage, once it hit social media, triggered immediate conservative outrage. Libs of TikTok posted the clip with a pointed demand:
“CHARGE THEM @TheJusticeDept.”
And the outrage is understandable. These are lawmakers — individuals who swore an oath to uphold the law — actively interfering with federal officers as they tried to detain a convicted abuser who never should have been in the country to begin with.
But Hollins and Kozlowski quickly switched into victim mode.
Hollins took to Facebook to complain that St. Paul police dared to assist ICE, whining,
“We are supposedly a sanctuary city… Why were chemical irritants deployed?”
Perhaps because she and her fellow agitators were obstructing a lawful arrest?
Kozlowski, who co-chairs Minnesota’s People of Color and Indigenous Caucus — the same group that routinely demands open borders and special protections for illegal aliens — posted an unhinged screed accusing ICE of “terrorizing” the community.
“This is blatantly wrong and shameful,” she wrote, pretending that violent rioters were merely “peaceful legal observers.” She even made the laughable claim that she witnessed agents “cracking a legal observer’s head onto the concrete” — an allegation conveniently unsupported by any footage.
Her rant concluded with a call to arms:
“We need everyone to get in this fight… grow collective power to protect our community.”
Protect it from whom? Federal agents enforcing the law?
Even St. Paul’s Democrat mayor joined the anti-ICE chorus, griping that federal officers “pop up and create chaos.” In reality, the only chaos was coming from the mob — and from elected officials behaving like street activists instead of public servants.
Online, Americans weren’t buying it.
“This is the stuff that has to be stopped!” one user wrote.
Another summed it up bluntly:
“An elected official who cannot respect the country’s laws has no business in public office.”
Minnesota’s political leadership has made it abundantly clear: **protecting criminal illegal aliens takes priority over protecting actual Minnesotans.** And now, with sitting lawmakers physically obstructing federal arrests, the crisis has crossed into outright rebellion against the rule of law.
The DOJ should take notice — and take action.
