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Trump Threatens Insurrection Act to Deploy Military in Minneapolis After New ICE Shooting

The threat follows a night of clashes triggered by a new ICE shooting.

Overview

  • President Trump warned on Truth Social that he will invoke the Insurrection Act if Minnesota officials do not halt what he calls attacks on immigration agents.
  • The warning came after an ICE agent shot a Venezuelan man in the leg during an attempted arrest; the Department of Homeland Security says the officer fired defensively as the man resisted.
  • A few hundred people demonstrated for hours following the incident, and fireworks were launched at law enforcement.
  • Minnesota Democrats accuse Washington of stoking disorder in Minneapolis; Governor Tim Walz criticized door-to-door interrogations by armed, masked ICE personnel, as hundreds more agents joined roughly 2,000 already in the state.
  • The family of Renee Nicole Good, killed by an ICE agent on January 7, announced a civil investigation, and the Insurrection Act was last used in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots.