A Jackson radio station that posted video of law enforcement officials conducting an ICE operation was not intended to put ICE officials or their operations at risk, according to one of their talk hosts. Talk-n West TN 101.5 WNWS FM posted video on their social media of an ICE operation in the early morning hours in Jackson and provided the address of the operation as well.
Talk host Dan Reaves says the station is definitely not anti-ICE and had no desire to encourage Minneapolis style protests in Jackson by posting the video. He pointed out that the station received several calls from businesses claiming ICE was in town and the station’s news coverage was to confirm that, not to disrupt any ongoing ice operations.
Although the station posted what appeared to be a call to action in line with the sort of protests that have erupted in Minneapolis in the past week, and have lead to at least one death, Reaves pointed out that the Facebook group chat is new and that the specific post in question was not generated by the station. However, the station is developing better moderation of the page going forward, Reaves said
Tensions regarding ICE operations are at a high level throughout the country, including in Tennessee. President Donald Trump has been threatening to invoke the insurrection act in response to the continued violence in Minneapolis and the fact that the Mayor and Minnesota Governor Walz seem to be encouraging it to intensify. A transgender State Representative in Minnesota has called on protesters to storm more Christian churches to protest ICE.
Minnesota Transgender State Rep. Leigh Finke Calls on Anti-ICE Protestors to Storm More Churches https://t.co/uAYJBtNtJy
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) January 19, 2026
Far-left anti-ICE protestors stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday while former CNN host Don Lemon livestreamed the crime and has acknowledged, encouraging the actions of the protesters. The Department of Justice has announced that they may prosecute him under the Ku Klux Klan Act, which is a civil rights law created to protect Americans from intimidation and interference with their constitutional freedoms, including the free exercise of religion.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison has called the occupation of a Minneapolis church on Sunday “free speech.” Virtually every legal scholar disagrees with him.
Dale Walker, President of the Tennessee Pastors Network, has called law-enforcement officials across the state to be particularly vigilant this Sunday in order to prevent the kind of chaos and outrageous behavior demonstrated by protesters in Minneapolis last Sunday.
“I am very concerned about the protests, harassment and interference with ICE agents and other law enforcement officials doing their jobs that we are seeing across the country. Their jobs are already dangerous enough without liberal activists putting them in greater danger as they are arresting and detaining criminal illegal aliens,” Walker said.
“The outrageous invasion of a Christian church during service on Sunday by the same thugs and violent protesters, and the silence of liberals in Minnesota and across the country, raise concerns among pastors here in Tennessee that our own Churches may be subject to the same violence and intimidation. I am requesting that that law-enforcement officials across the state increase patrols and visible protection of churches this Sunday to prevent the sort of violent actions we saw in Minneapolis last weekend,” Walker noted.
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Steve Gill is editor and Publisher of TriStar Daily
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