Overview
- Multiple outlets report the Justice Department issued subpoenas as part of a probe into a suspected conspiracy by Walz and Frey to obstruct federal law enforcement activities during Operation Metro Surge.
- President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell unrest in Minneapolis and repeated the warning Friday, though no formal action has been announced.
- A second agent-involved shooting occurred Wednesday, with DHS saying a federal officer fired a defensive shot after being attacked with shovels and a broom handle; the wounded man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and two others were taken into custody.
- New emergency records confirm Renee Good suffered multiple gunshot wounds before dying after the Jan. 7 encounter with ICE officer Jonathan Ross, while DHS claims of the agent’s injury and terrorism allegations have been challenged and criticized by former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.
- DHS says more than 2,500 arrests have been made and nearly 3,000 agents are deployed in the Twin Cities as protests, tear gas deployments, and local lawsuits seeking to halt the federal surge escalate the standoff.