After the woman was detained, her husband said he called his attorney. Shortly after, he received a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he has known for years.

"I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the husband told MPR, before encouraging the chief to make sure local officers were more visible during ICE operations. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law-abiding,” he said.

After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.

“ICE returned the female to our police department, I saw her, and I gave her a ride home,” Grochow wrote in a statement to MPR about the incident.

Two lessons from this:

1. Cops do have influence over ICE and what they do.

2. Cops won't use that influence unless it's a personal friend that also has lawyers on retainer.

It was not thwarted. It was successful, and the perpetrators experience no consequences.

In their statement, they vilified the victim by claiming she was fleeing law enforcement.

Hmmm... I wonder why she did that? Running for her life, perhaps?

Yeah, because her husband was literally buddies with the police chief.

Police CAN do Something against ICE?

Something seems to be missing here...

After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.

How did the call to the police chief result in these people receiving a call...? This is seemingly stated as a determining factor in them turning around and taking her to the police station. But.. how did this happen like that without some type of cooperation between local police and the feds?

Knowing what individuals were working in the area, where they were, what type of vehicles they were using (another article stated the police chief, on the call with the husband, described the vehicle the woman was taken away in to confirm it with the husband), and how this all resulted in a supposed phone call/the woman being taken to the police and turned over to them.

A personal relationship with the police chief is one thing, but the rest I can't make out at this point.

Insane video