A liberal provocateur drove into oncoming traffic while in pursuit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota, an expose has revealed.
Will Stancil, 40, was joined by The Verge's Gaby Del Valle as he stalked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their cars around Minnesota - which has been a hotspot for ICE anger after the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
However, the lawyer and activist's 'erratic' driving almost caused a deadly crash after he took a wrong turn onto a one-way street, the reporter revealed.
'We were in unfamiliar territory. That this wasn’t Stancil’s turf was clear. At one point, he took a left when he should’ve taken a right, and [photographer] Jack had to tell him Cleveland Avenue was actually the other way,' Del Valle wrote in the piece on Stancil.
'A few minutes later, Stancil went the wrong way down a one-way street, accidentally maneuvering us into oncoming traffic. Stancil’s driving was, for the most part, erratic.'
Del Valle's piece, titled Will Stancil, Man of the People or Just Annoying?, detailed Stancil's 'desperate' efforts to track down ICE agents.
'Stancil told me about a Chevy Silverado he’d seen on the street that was a ‘confirmed ICE vehicle’ despite being "highly unconventional",' the journalist wrote.
Del Valle said Stancil referred to the Silverado as his 'white whale' that he was 'desperate' to find.
Will Stancil, 40, stalked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their cars around Minnesota before he drove the wrong way down a one-way road
Footage from Minnesota, where tensions between locals and ICE agents are particularly high after rampant protests, has seen many citizens warned by agents not to follow their vehicles
The Verge's Gaby Del Valle described Stancil's driving as 'erratic' and his search for ICE agents 'desperate' after joining him on a ride along
Stancil wrote on BlueSky that he did not think the article would focus so heavily on him and expressed dissatisfaction for how he was portrayed
The former candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives condemned the critical article about his escapades around Minnesota.
'Maybe we can chalk this up to a miscommunication. Nonetheless, if I had known what the story would be - even if it had been unambiguously laudatory instead of snarky - I would not have agreed,' Stancil wrote on BlueSky.
'I am not the story here. My neighbors and my city are the story. I agreed to talk to press to help tell it.'
'I was told that the piece would be partly about me, but as someone who was a member of the rapid responders,' he continued.
Stancil added that his impression was that the article would portray him as 'a guy who is doing what lots of other people are doing,' and go on to discuss the community and 'tensions in them.'
'The thing I say over and over when I talk to reporters about observing here in MN is "There is nothing special about what I am doing. I am one of thousands. I am at far less risk than others with fewer resources." A piece about whether or not I am, personally, a hero or a grifter is NOT THAT.'
theyre threatening to kill me on the other website for writing a mildly critical profile of will stancil lol
— g a b y (@gabydvj) February 21, 2026
Stancil has been a long time critic of the president, ICE and the Republican party, describing Donald Trump as an 'evil person' in a recent post on X.
Stancil added that his impression was that the article would portray him as 'a guy who is doing what lots of other people are doing,' and go on to discuss the community and 'tensions in them'
Stancil has been a long time critic of the president, ICE and the Republican party, describing Donald Trump as an 'evil person'
'Trump is an incredibly evil person, and the people who celebrate him and tell constant lies to protect him are also evil,' he wrote in December.
Stancil told NPR last week that ICE tactics had begun 'resorting to gross intimidation.'
'It’s not just bravado. It’s that I think it’s important to demonstrate that these are bluffs, that they’re trying to frighten us, but they don’t actually have the authority to do it,' he said.
Last year, Stancil told Racket MN that he was 'radicalized into action' against ICE.
Footage from Minnesota, where tensions between locals and ICE agents are particularly high after rampant protests, has seen many citizens warned by agents not to follow their vehicles.
In January, two women were seen being warned by agents to refrain from following them in footage that circulated online.
An agent warned them: 'Don't make a bad decision today.'
'If I continually see you following us, interfering with us, honking your horn, blocking our cars, you have a very high probability of making a really bad decision and being arrested today, okay?' the officer warned one woman in her car.
Footage sweeping social media showed Minneapolis women following and taunting ICE agents just days after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good
A framed picture of Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in January, is hung outside of an immigration detention facility
The smug-looking woman grinned and responded: 'I think I'm making exactly the right decision.'
A man nearby to the confrontation then yelled from the street: 'Why are you giving her a warning? She's not interfering, she's just following.'
As the ICE agent again told the woman in the car to 'not make a bad decision today and ruin your life', she chuckled and replied: 'Oh, bad decisions, that's funny coming from you.'
And in a parting insult, as the ICE agent told the woman to 'have a nice day' she responded: 'I hope you have a terrible day.'
MINNEAPOLIS: Border Patrol agents warn two white women in separate SUVs to stop trailing them and not to impede. 'Dont make a bad decision today..." pic.twitter.com/An2MAWUYcY
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) January 9, 2026
The Daily Mail reached out to Stancil for comment.
