15 alleged Antifa members return to court in Minneapolis over anti-ICE protests

New at 6 tonight, the federal case against the Minnesota 15 moves forward with Homeland Security in the hot seat. The 15 are accused of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, assaults on federal officers, interstate stalking, and more during Operation Metro Surge. But as Fox 9's Karen Scullin tells us, there was a wild opening to today's proceedings. Now today was designated as an evidentiary hearing with HSI Assistant Special Agent Joshua Brenner on the stand. During Operation Metro Surge, Brenner was in charge of an administrative function called Keyhole. Keyhole helped to fund Operation Puppet Master and Project Whipple Shield, which were two operations that were documenting what they call agitators who were not peacefully protesting. A defense attorney questioned Brenner, trying to determine if the money was used properly in the operations and the scope of the documents that might be available to the defense. The U.S. attorney called it a phishing expedition. Now, before the day got started today, there was kind of a wild exchange between the judge and some attorneys over a memo that accidentally made it into discovery on the case against the Minnesota 15. It was totally unrelated to the case, but accidentally got into the discovery and got sent out to 15 attorneys. Basically, a federal agent in a memo accused Michael Dietz of helping an undocumented immigrant escape custody. only appears it just wasn't true however that memo landed in the hands of about 15 attorneys in this current case now it's unclear what's going to happen to that memo and what this all will pan out to be the judge used words like outrageous ludicrous he was clearly angry but what exactly again happens to that memo is unclear the judge said to Dietz today as a United States official on behalf of the United States I apologize to you this should not have happened And it's outrageous. I am sorry. But just a crazy way to start things off here today as this case against the Minnesota 15 continues to move forward in courts. In Minneapolis, Karen Scullin, Fox 9.