Noem bestreitet den Einsatz chemischer Arbeitsstoffe bei Protesten in Minnesota und macht dann einen Rückzieher

*We never did what you say we did but if we did it was because of you. This lying administration in a nut shell.*

„Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.“

„Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, denied in a televised interview on Sunday that her department had used pepper spray and similar tactics curtailed by [a judicial order issued last week](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/minnesota-ice-immigration-agents-protests.html), then backtracked and blamed protesters after being confronted with a video of federal agents deploying such measures against crowds in Minnesota.“

“That federal order was a little ridiculous, because that federal judge came down and told us we couldn’t do what we already aren’t doing,” Ms. Noem said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

*“But after being pressed on a video that backed up the accounts provided to the court, she changed course. Protesters were to blame for the use of force, she said, adding that federal officers “only use those chemical agents when there’s violence happening and perpetuating.”*

„The ruling on Friday by Judge Kate M. Menendez of the Federal District Court in Minnesota said that chemical agents had been used against protesters on [at least four separate occasions](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.85.0_1.pdf) and called the evidence of their use “uncontroverted.”

“Federal agents used chemical irritants” to punish protesters for exercising “protected First Amendment rights to assemble and to observe and protest ICE operations,” the judge wrote in issuing her injunction, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“

„Judge Menendez had dismissed the government’s claims that all use of pepper spray and other chemical irritants had happened after agents were “attacked,” finding that “protected conduct,” including [protesting and observing the operations](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/minneapolis-federal-agent-shooting-immigration.html), had “motivated” the agents’ “adverse actions.”

„In addition to barring agents from using “crowd dispersal tools” in retaliation for protected speech, Judge Menendez also said agents could not stop or detain protesters in vehicles who were not “forcibly obstructing or interfering with” agents.“

On Sunday, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, defended the Justice Department’s decision to not „investigate the agent who fatally shot Ms. Good, saying that doing so would be bowing to “pressure from the media” and politicians.“

“We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate, and that is not the case here,” Mr. Blanche said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We don’t just go out and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself against somebody.”

„The Justice Department has instead pushed to investigate Ms. Good’s widow, prompting [several federal prosecutors in the state to resign](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html).“

„Department of Homeland Security officials have repeatedly said that 70 percent of those detained in the administration’s immigration crackdown have been charged or convicted of a crime.“

„But Ms. Noem on Sunday went a step further. “Every single individual” arrested by immigration agents had broken the law, she told “Face the Nation,” adding that 70 percent of those detained had either committed or been charged with violent crimes specifically.“

She is so full of shit it is no wonder she has brown eyes

We didn’t do that. Oh, you have video? It was your fault we did that.

Her backtracks are the same as an admission of guilt. Lie to the magats ,lie to the media and lie too everyone in the complicit gop Reich Agenda who are the only ones who believe such BS.

Where does she come off thinking that she is just going to get away with lie after lie?

Those days are over honey. No more puppy killing on our watch.

All the agencies did this when shit went down in Spokane. Everyone denied they used chemical agents. Then they said there were chemical agents used but it wasn’t them and it definitely wasn’t tear gas. Then they weren’t sure. Dumbfucks gassed the protesters *and* an entire stadium of people watching a soccer match. It caused absolute chaos and panic as people grabbed their children and ran for the exits. It still hasn’t been addressed. Zero accountability.

Tell that to the family who had their car window smashed and were subsequently tear gassed, leaving their 6 month old unconscious.

They are beginning to take the mostly complacently incurious media for granted. It never occurrd to her that anyone would dare to question her lies.

Time to shuffle those press passes around again or maybe have the FBI stop by, they’re getting a little uppity.

The verb they were looking for is lies. Lies and gets caught lying.

Every single thing they say is a lie. And they always do the wrong thing, and never admit guilt/doing something wrong

Makes perfect sense to me. No Federal agents are using tear gas or other chemical agents.

I only see the MAGA Sturmabteilung using chemical agents. Not a government agency. Common misconception.

Bratz faced, bobble head bitch with the body of an egyptian mummy.

Evil

Filthy liar got caught in a lie. More at 11.

„Pepper spray, that’s basically a food product, right?“