Overview
- U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez issued an injunction barring ICE and CBP from arresting peaceful demonstrators, using chemical agents on them, or stopping vehicles near protests without specific suspicion, with 72 hours for DHS to implement the changes.
- The order applies to people lawfully observing operations, and it clarifies that following officers from a safe distance does not justify a stop during the Metro Surge operation.
- Reports say the Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for possible obstruction of federal immigration enforcement, as senior DOJ and FBI officials traveled to Minneapolis; the department has not confirmed the probe.
- Protests and counterprotests continued in Minneapolis, and a media report said about 1,500 U.S. troops were placed on readiness as the state’s National Guard was told to prepare but had not been deployed.
- The DHS defended ICE’s conduct and President Donald Trump stepped back from invoking the Insurrection Act after threatening to do so, as scrutiny intensified over a second ICE shooting that wounded a Venezuelan man and a separate detainee death of Heber Sanchez Dominguez.