“Won’t no ICE agent ever run up on me! I’ll put a hole in their chest the size of a window.” Chairman Paul Birdsong of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense said at an ICE protest in Philadelphia in a recent interview.

Armed members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense have become more visible in Philadelphia following the January 2026 self-defense shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The group appeared at anti-ICE protests at Philadelphia City Hall carrying military-style weapons, including a semiautomatic shotgun, which Birdsong displayed while advising his followers to obtain more powerful weapons than those carried by ICE.

Birdsong told reporters that federal agents attempting to enforce immigration law should expect violent resistance: “If you think you about to come and brutalize the people while we’re standing here, f— around and find out.” Birdsong said members attended the protest the day after the Minneapolis shooting and claimed their presence could have prevented the killing.

Videos of Birdsong’s statements have gone viral on social media platforms, garnering overwhelming support in forums like Reddit’s Suppressed_News, where users described the footage as “the most based video I’ve seen all week” and expressed wishes that the group members “be watched over and protected in all that they do.” The group’s statements on armed resistance to ICE drew a disturbing amount of support across social media platforms, with supporters praising the Black Panther Party’s revival as a bulwark against state violence.

Birdsong stated that federal law enforcement officers “should be fearful of the public” and described the group’s approach as meeting authorities “with equal force,” adding that the modern iteration is “the same Panther Party from back in the day, but we’re a little more aggressive now.” He called for ICE to be abolished and the Trump administration held accountable for the shooting. The Trump administration defended the ICE agent, with Vice President J.D. Vance asserting the officer acted in self-defense.

The group could have chosen any name, but instead, has adopted the “Panther” moniker used by an organization designated as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for racism and antisemitism. The New Black Panther Party, which has existed since the late 1980s, was labeled by the ADL as the most extreme organized racist and antisemitic African-American group in the United States.

This new group distinguishes itself from the original Black Panthers by claiming to be internationalist rather than Black nationalist, describing itself as allied with oppressed people regardless of ethnic or cultural background. The deliberate choice to use this controversial name, one previously associated with organizations advocating violence and designated as extremist, remains significant.

A separate group, the New Black Panther Party, gained infamy for a 2008 voter intimidation incident in Philadelphia when two members, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, stood outside a polling location wearing paramilitary-style uniforms, with one brandishing a nightstick. The Bush administration’s Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act against the NBPP, its chairman, and the two men at the polling location.

When the defendants failed to appear in court, a default judgment was entered in April 2009. However, the Obama administration’s DOJ reversed course in May 2009, dropping charges against three of the four defendants and seeking only a limited injunction against Shabazz.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated whether DOJ enforced voting rights in a race-neutral manner. Two career attorneys who worked the case testified that the department had a policy against pursuing cases where the defendants were minorities and the victims were white, an allegation the Civil Rights Division leadership denied.

Birdsong states he was recruited following George Floyd’s death in 2020 and has been trained by surviving members of the original Black Panther Party. The Philadelphia chapter has fewer than 100 members and has operated weekly free food programs in North Philadelphia for several years, distributing fresh produce, packaged food, hygiene items, clothing, and hot meals funded by member contributions and community donations.

Residents interviewed said the programs provide meaningful help, particularly for seniors and families with limited income. The group recently moved into a building at 2123 N. Gratz Street, which Birdsong claims once served as the original Philadelphia headquarters of the Black Panther Party. The group describes itself as a revival of the original Black Panther Party founded in Oakland in 1966, which combined armed self-defense with community programs before being targeted by the FBI.

The Philadelphia chapter of the original party was active from 1968 to 1973 and included figures who later held civic roles. The modern group claims continuity with this original organization through mentorship by surviving members, though it does not claim formal legal continuity with the historic national organization.

The armed posture and tough rhetoric appear to skirt if not cross  the lines dividing free speech from calls to action or threats. Legal experts noted that open carry is generally lawful in Pennsylvania but requires a license in Philadelphia, a designated first-class city. Civil rights commentators interviewed by local outlets have questioned whether an armed formation, even one that emphasizes discipline and non-aggression, could escalate tensions with police or other armed actors, and have contrasted Birdsong’s strategy with non-violent protest traditions.

Group members reject concerns about escalation and say weapons provide safety and deterrence. Birdsong and other members stated they felt secure operating openly while armed and insisted their activities have not drawn police interference. Birdsong described the federal government as corrupt and predatory, framing the group’s actions as protection of the public.

The post The Resurgence of the Black Panthers – Armed Resistance Against ICE appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday responded to Trump’s looming deployment of active duty troops in Minneapolis, doubling down on his support for rioters and criminals and vowing that they will not back down until federal authorities leave the city.  

As The Gateway Pundit reported, roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers were placed on standby for deployment to Minnesota amid violent clashes between rioters and law enforcement over ICE raids.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the insurrection act, stating on Thursday, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State.”

Trump also previously said he plans to send National Guard troops back into California, Chicago, and Portland, and to invoke the Insurrection Act if necessary.

More via Fox:

Frey responded to the troop deployment during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, telling host Jake Tapper that the move is “clearly designed to intimidate the people of Minneapolis.”

“We’re not going to be intimidated,” he continued, claiming that federal agents and military troops will not make the city safer.

WATCH:

Frey: This act was clearly designed to intimidate the people of Minneapolis. And here’s the thing, we’re not going to be intimidated. If the goal here is safety, we’ve got many mechanisms to achieve safety. And the best way to get safety is not to have an influx of even more agents, and in this case, military, in Minneapolis. Right now, we have about 600 police officers, and they’ve got 3000 or so ICE agents and border control. That they are now talking about deploying 1500 military, this is, well, it’s ridiculous, but we will not be intimidated by the actions of this federal government.

In another portion of the interview, Frey appeared to threaten that the chaos and rioting will continue until ICE leaves Minneapolis.

“The second these ICE agents leave the city, I’m telling you, you’re going to have calm in Minneapolis, and you will continue to see the great comeback that we had been experiencing,” he said. Ironically, he called on the Trump administration to “Let us have businesses that are open and daycares,” which are riddled with fraud and welfare abuse by aliens, and prompted federal action in the city.

WATCH:

Frey: The second these ICE agents leave the city, I’m telling you, you’re going to have calm in Minneapolis, and you will continue to see the great comeback that we had been experiencing. Let us get back to that comeback. Let us live in peace. Let us have businesses that are open and daycares where you don’t need to escort staff to and from. Let us live in a place where, you know— I mean, look, in Minneapolis, we’ll stand up.

If we have to sled down ice hills to get to a protest, we’ll do that. If we’ve got to make sure that people are escorted to the grocery store, you know, we’ll do that. But truthfully, we want to get back to a place where we can just love on our city, do our daily activities, just like any other town in America.

The post WATCH: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey PANICS Over Troop Deployment in Minneapolis, Threatens More Violence Until ICE Leaves – “Let us Have Daycares!” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Germany’s left-liberal globalist ruling class has once again offered a grim lesson in what happens when an ideology of multiculturalism and mass migration at any cost replaces responsibility.

The senseless, brutal, anti-European murder of a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl by a military-aged Iraqi migrant with expulsion orders—and the state’s decision to spare him prison—has become a symbol of a system that protects foreign offenders while abandoning society’s most vulnerable.

The victim, a teenage refugee who had fled the war in Ukraine, was trying to build a life in Germany through work and training. Instead, her life was tragically ended at a train station, one of the very public spaces that liberal-globalist elites insist remains “safe” despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

This is the 16 year old girl that was pushed in front of a train by a 31 year old iraqi asylum seeker in Germany pic.twitter.com/qLyrJC9X9n

— (@GermanicFren) August 31, 2025

According to prosecutors, the 31-year-old Iraqi migrant ruthlessly shoved the girl in front of an oncoming freight train. The train was traveling at high speed, leaving the poor, innocent girl no chance of survival, yet the anti-European state now claims the killer bears no criminal responsibility due to alleged mental illness.

Rather than facing prison and deportation, the Iraqi is being placed in psychiatric care— of course, at German taxpayer expense. This means no punishment, no deterrence, and no justice for the victim’s family.

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel criticized the decision sharply, saying that a deportable Iraqi migrant who killed 16-year-old Liana will face no real consequences. She argued that instead of prison and removal from Germany, he is being shielded by a finding of insanity and placed in psychiatric care at public expense—an outcome she called outrageous and deeply unjust.

The AfD co-leader wrote on X: “The Iraqi who was subject to deportation at the time of the crime and who killed Liana (16) by pushing her in front of a freight train will go unpunished: The public prosecutor’s office certifies him as ‘guilty but insane.’ No deterrent judgment, no imprisonment followed by deportation—instead, the taxpayer has to foot the bill for the perpetrator’s accommodation in a psychiatric hospital. This is a scandal!”

Der zum Zeitpunkt der Tat vollziehbar ausreisepflichtige Iraker, der Liana (16) tötete, indem er sie vor einen Güterzug stieß, geht straffrei aus: Die Staatsanwaltschaft attestiert ihm “Schuldunfähigkeit”. Kein abschreckendes Urteil, keine Haft mit anschließender Abschiebung -…

— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) January 15, 2026

What makes the case even more disturbing is that this killing was entirely preventable. The perpetrator had already been denied asylum multiple times and was under an enforceable deportation order that simply failed to be carried out.

Germany’s authorities had years to remove him from the country. Instead, legal loopholes, pro-mass migration activist lawyers, and an ideological fixation on “humanitarian” optics allowed him to remain.

His asylum story itself highlights the gross dysfunction of the system. He initially claimed he would be executed in Iraq for being gay, then later alleged abuse in a Lithuanian asylum center—claims that were never substantiated but nonetheless sufficient to halt deportation.

Despite these red flags, he remained housed in an asylum facility. Even after a prior conviction for sexually inappropriate behavior toward a woman, the punishment was deliberately kept low enough to avoid consequences for his immigration status.

This is not compassion—it is gross negligence dressed up as virtue. Liberal-globalist governments across Europe have created a system in which military-aged men from alien cultures are granted endless benefit of the doubt, while native citizens and genuine refugees bear the risk.

The public prosecutor’s decision to label the killer “guilty but insane” may satisfy the legal formalism of a system set up for Europeans, but it offends common sense. Mental illness did not push a teenage girl onto train tracks—policy failure and evil brutishness did.

Once again, the cost is borne by ordinary, law-abiding people. German taxpayers now fund lifelong, cozy psychiatric care for a man who should never have been in the country, while the victim’s family is left with grief and unanswered questions.

Political leaders, if you can even call them that, have offered typical vacuous words of regret and moral signalling, but regret is meaningless without action. The killing exposes a state apparatus that is overwhelmed, paralyzed, and utterly ideologically captured.

Germany’s interior authorities themselves have admitted that excessive numbers of migrants strain institutions beyond their limits. When systems fail under pressure, the weakest—women, children, and other refugees—end up paying the price.

This tragedy also exposes the moral inversion at the heart of Europe’s migration regime. A Ukrainian girl fleeing war was less protected than a man whose asylum claims had collapsed under scrutiny.

Supporters of mass migration insist such cases are “exceptions.” Yet exceptions keep piling up, forming a pattern that can no longer be denied.

Across Europe, train stations, city centers, and public spaces are becoming zones of fear rather than freedom. The promise that mass migration, mainly of military-aged men from alien cultures, would enrich society has been replaced by a reality of chaos and insecurity.

In a sane world, the state’s first duty ought to be to protect its own people and law-abiding residents. That duty is being systematically violated by elites more concerned with left-liberal globalist ideology than safety.

Justice for this beautiful girl whose life hadn’t even begun, will not come from psychiatric paperwork or official state condolences. It will only come when European governments finally abandon open-borders dogma, enforce deportation orders, and place the safety of their people above the illusions of globalist virtue.

The post Germany: Military-Aged Iraqi Migrant Under Deportation Order Avoids Prison After Murdering 16-Year-Old Ukrainian Refugee by Throwing Her in Front of a Train appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

President Trump blasted Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Somali Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday for their role in impeding ICE and inciting their radical left supporters to riot. 

“ICE is removing some of the most violent criminals in the World from our Country, and bring them back home, where they belong. Why is Minnesota fighting this? Do they really want murderers and drug dealers to be ensconced in their community?” Trump questioned.

“The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists. Is this really what Minnesota wants?”

“The crooked Governor and ‘Congresswoman’ Omar, who married her brother, don’t mind because it keeps the focus of attention off the 18 Billion Dollar, Plus, FRAUD, that has taken place in the State! Don’t worry, we’re on it!” he continued.

Full statement below:

ICE is removing some of the most violent criminals in the World from our Country, and bring them back home, where they belong. Why is Minnesota fighting this? Do they really want murderers and drug dealers to be ensconced in their community? The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists. Is this really what Minnesota wants?

The crooked Governor and “Congresswoman” Omar, who married her brother, don’t mind because it keeps the focus of attention off the 18 Billion Dollar, Plus, FRAUD, that has taken place in the State! Don’t worry, we’re on it!

Minnesota has become ground zero for some of the largest pandemic-era fraud cases in U.S. history, involving the alleged theft of hundreds of millions of dollars intended to feed children and provide healthcare services.

And now, because ICE is doing something about the illegal alien fraudsters and criminals in Minnesota, radical leftists are rioting in the streets with the endorsement of Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

The riots escalated following the shooting death of Renee Good, a deranged leftist who attempted to run down an ICE agent in her vehicle. An ICE agent later shot a shovel-wielding Venezuelan illegal alien in self-defense, sparking more outrage from pro-criminal leftists.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday, National Guard troops have been deployed to Minneapolis to support law enforcement and stop the riots.

JUST IN: National Guard Troops Mobilized in Minneapolis as Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act (VIDEO)

The post JUST IN: Trump Puts Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar on Notice for Fighting ICE and Inciting Insurrection – “Don’t Worry, We’re On It!” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.