Footage from the scene of a Minneapolis protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to contradict one couple’s claims that their baby was tear-gassed by federal officers as the family merely headed home from an after-school activity, a story that went viral last week amid liberal outrage over ICE operations in the Twin Cities.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson, the parents of six children, are raising a large sum of money for themselves off of the Jan. 14 incident. Within a week, the Jacksons raked in more than $170,000 in donations on GoFundMe.
According to the couple’s fundraising campaign, they were “innocent bystanders” caught in the crossfire of a peaceful protest when ICE’s crowd-dispersal units threw tear gas bombs, one of which rolled under the Jacksons’ SUV,
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