As talks between the Trump administration and Minnesota leadership continue, with some possible success, police have begun dealing with protesters more efficiently this week.

In a surprising turn of events, protesters in Minneapolis were swiftly dealt with near the Graduate by Hilton hotel.

'All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down.'

In video originally captured on independent reporter Brendan Gutenschwager's livestream of the protests in Minneapolis on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, protesters could be seen being kettled by police on a street block.

Police officers, who were reported to be Minnesota state police and University of Minnesota police officers, quickly formed a line on the street.

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"All individuals: You are under arrest. Please sit down," one officer says once the police line is set.

The video showed a few dozen protesters on the street, many of whom sat down immediately in compliance with the order.

Gutenschwager reported that this kettling tactic was used near the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis.

A second video of the aftermath of some arrests shows police walking arrestees toward a line of blue buses.

Frontlines TPUSA posted a video on the ground of the same event. Describing the scene, the cameraman says, "They're being taken into these buses now with bars on the windows."

Though the crowds seemed subdued during and after the kettling tactic, Gutenschwager's livestream showed that the protesters were much more energetic and disruptive in the earlier hours of the night.

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Trump says if Iran 'kills peaceful protesters,' the US 'will come to their rescue'

President Donald Trump said early Friday morning that if Iran "violently kills peaceful protesters," the United States "will come to their rescue."

Trump added that "we are locked and loaded and ready to go" in the post on his Truth Social network, which went live just before 3 a.m. Eastern time.

'Trump should know that intervention by the US in the domestic problem corresponds to chaos in the entire region and the destruction of the US interests.'

Trump's warning came hours after reports that at least six people have been killed after nearly a week of protests in Iran over grim economic conditions there, CBS News reported.

'F**k your dead homie': Hateful leftists clash with TPUSA supporters as Charlie Kirk's planned tour ends in violence

Violence erupted outside a Turning Point USA event on the UC Berkeley campus as protesters gathered to challenge TPUSA's presence at the school on the final stop of TPUSA's tour after Charlie Kirk's assassination in September.

KTVU reported that protesters clashed on Monday with attendees outside Zellerbach Hall, where the event was scheduled to take place. Comedian Rob Schneider and Christian apologist Frank Turek headlined the event.

Other signs read: 'Kirk said death penalties should be public, quick, and televised ... Congrats Bud!' and 'TP belongs in the toilet.'

KTVU's Crystal Bailey described a "rowdy" crowd outside the venue, noting that there was heightened security as well.

The event sold out the 1,900-seat venue, a UC Berkeley TPUSA chapter representative told KTVU.

Bailey reported that the protests turned violent as protesters and attendees clashed, saying that there was "blood splattered on the ground" as the result of an "altercation."

In a now-viral video posted Monday night, leftist protesters and students could be heard chanting, "F**k your dead homie," referring to late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was publicly assassinated exactly two months ago Monday.

The crowd can be seen holding signs that read, "This machine fights fascism," "No safe space for fascists," "Karma's a b***h," and "The lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of trash."

Other signs read: "Kirk said death penalties should be public, quick, and televised ... Congrats Bud!" and "TP belongs in the toilet."

A large red sign with two hammer and sickle symbols could be seen with the words "Drown Fascism in a Sea of Resistance." Underneath the slogan was an apparent reference to a group called the Revolutionary Student Organization. With a portrait of Mao Zedong on the "about" page of its website, the RSU participates in several forms of "direct action."

In other videos from the event shared by reporter Andy Ngo, activists can be seen shouting incoherently at California Highway Patrol officers and igniting smoke bombs.

TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet still claimed the event was a success. "Despite Antifa thugs blocking our campus tour stop with tear gas, fireworks, and glass bottles, we had a PACKED HOUSE in the heart of deep-blue UC Berkeley," he said, according to the New York Post.

KTVU reported that at least four students were arrested in connection with vandalism associated with the event.

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'I don't want your salvation! I want you to f**king die!' Student prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk hit with 'pure evil'

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the New York University College Republicans organized a prayer vigil at Washington Square Park on Sunday night.

"All we wanted was some time to mourn the death of a man who meant so much to so many people," chapter President Ryan Leonard said.

'You're in a very, very dark place, but we'll pray for your salvation.'

Leonard, a senior, told Blaze News that while he'd been part of the College Republicans ever since his start at NYU, he'd been president only since the beginning of the fall semester — and the candlelight vigil would be his first time in charge of a major club event.

It would prove a baptism by fire for the philosophy major.

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Leonard told Blaze News that anywhere from 50 to 100 individuals attended the vigil, and it was looking pretty good — highlighted by an impressive display of Kirk-related images under the park's legendary Arch.

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Unfortunately, about 20 to 30 protesters showed up, too, Leonard told Blaze News.

While vigil attendees sang the national anthem and attempted to pray, protesters openly mocked Kirk and praised his murder; they even sang a song reflective of an engraving on the assassin's bullet casings. Indeed, it was a continuation of a chilling, unnerving theme that's been played out at other college campuses following Kirk's cold-blooded killing — including at Texas Tech University and Texas State University.

But one protester was particularly aggressive, Leonard told Blaze News, noting that he was "one of the most vulgar and disruptive protesters there."

This guy came with an acoustic guitar and sang some songs with "inappropriate" lyrics, Leonard said, adding that the College Republicans fought back by not giving him attention, even when he was "calling us white supremacists and racists."

Well, that only fueled the protester's fire.

The dark-hearted individual ended up getting a "foot away from our members," Leonard told Blaze News, but still the vigil-goers "did not engage him."

Leonard told Blaze News that at first "I was just very angry when he was disrupting, and then I saw the wrath in his heart, and I became sad for him and the state he was in."

In a brief video the College Republicans recorded, Leonard can be heard telling the protester that "you're in a very, very dark place, but we'll pray for your salvation."

With that, the demented busker launched into an apparently improvised song aimed right back at Leonard. As he strummed angry chords, he loudly sang, "I don't want your salvation! I want you to f**king die! We're not gonna give you a second chance, even when you beg for it, on your knees, begging and pleading!"

Here's the clip, which is used with permission from @nyurepublicans on X. Content warning: Language:

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Leonard told Blaze News that while vigil-goers only returned his hatred with peace, the protester just "got madder and more enraged" and "he started being threatening."

Worse yet, as the protester continued his verbal assaults, Leonard told Blaze News that "more people gathered around him" and a kind of mob was forming. Soon the vigil-goers started getting literally "pushed around," Leonard explained.

Finally, New York police officers "escorted us away," he noted.

Washington Square Park is completely open, so anyone off the street can enter it. Given that kind of access, Blaze News asked Leonard if he was concerned for his safety and that of his fellow club members, given the way Kirk was assassinated out in the open at Utah Valley University just days ago. Leonard told Blaze News that possibility was "definitely going through my mind."

But as the club's president said in a previous statement, he and his fellow College Republicans won't be bullied: "To interrupt a solemn vigil full of grieving young people who were trying to honor the life of an inspiration and mentor they looked up to is pure evil, and we will not let them intimidate us into silence. We will go even harder to honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk."

In fact, Leonard added to Blaze News that Sunday night's ordeal has resulted in a "boost in our club that I've never seen before. People are encouraging us, and they appreciate us standing up for them."

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