Leftists mock classic Iwo Jima photo by raising new Somali-inspired Minnesota flag

Video of the "flag raising" was posted by Anton Treuer, who is a professor at Bemidji State University and claims to be an "Indigenous language warrior" on X.

https://twitter.com/antontreuer/status/2018314601755025910?s=20

Treuer, although it is unclear if he was pictured in the video, said in the caption, "We stand for justice and a future worth fighting for! #MNStrong #iceout #Minnesota #peace #solidarity." The clip, which has not gone viral on social media, depicts six people holding up the Minnesota flag in the position from the famous Iwo Jima flag raising photo from World War II.

Many reacted to the post online, slamming the group of leftist as people wanting to cosplay as soldiers as the Trump administration has been surging ICE into the region to detain illegal immigrant criminals.

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec said of the video, "Leftists in Minneapolis are now staging the flag-raising of Iwo Jima with their fake Somali flag Good Lord, we're reaching levels of cringe that have never been seen."

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/2018333025176551924?s=20

X user Digital Daisy posted, "Minnesota activists reenacting Iwo Jima to protest ICE is surprising. The original moment honored soldiers who fought and died, not intended as a political statement."

https://twitter.com/DigitalDaisyX/status/2018352709645086769?s=20

Newsmax host Carl Higbie posted, "These neutered betas tried to recreate raising the flag on Iwo Jima with the Somali/Minnesota flag Not one of these people would have survived 7 seconds in that battle… but yet here they are.

https://twitter.com/CarlHigbie/status/2018374536228434071?s=20

The video has gone viral online as tensions in Minnesota have been high since the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent as well as the shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol. Good was driving her car into the agent who then fatally shot her. Pretti had been resisting arrest while he was armed leading up to the shooting. However, footage appeared to show an agent disarming Pretti before he was killed.