Overview
- U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez issued a preliminary injunction limiting agents in Minnesota from arresting peaceful protesters, retaliating against observers, or using pepper spray and similar munitions without reasonable suspicion.
- Multiple outlets report the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over potential obstruction tied to their public statements, with CNN reporting grand jury subpoenas were issued.
- Walz and Frey said they had not received formal notice and denounced the reported probe as political intimidation, while the DOJ declined to comment.
- Protests continued outside Minneapolis’ Bishop Henry Whipple federal building, with local reports of additional arrests as tensions persisted over recent ICE use-of-force incidents.
- President Donald Trump defended federal agents, threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if necessary, and later said there was no reason to use it for now, following the fatal January 7 shooting of Renee Good and a separate shooting that injured a Venezuelan man.