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Associated Press

Minneapolis was on edge as US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to the city to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown.
The threat came a day after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further heightened the fear and anger that has radiated across the city since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in the head.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used federal law, to deploy the US military or federalise the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.
In 2020, for example, he threatened to use the act to quell protests after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, and in recent months he threatened to use it for immigration protests.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said in a social media post.
US presidents have invoked the law more than two dozen times, most recently in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush to end unrest in Los Angeles. In that instance, local authorities had asked for the assistance.
“I’m making a direct appeal to the President: Let’s turn the temperature down. Stop this campaign of retribution. This is not who we are,” Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, said on X.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he would challenge any such action in court. He was already suing to try to stop the surge by the Department of Homeland Security, which says officers have arrested more than 2,500 people since November 29 as part of an immigration operation in the Twin Cities called Metro Surge.
The operation grew when ICE sent 2,000 officers and agents to the area early in January. ICE is a DHS agency.
In Minneapolis, smoke filled the streets Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a small crowd. Protesters responded by throwing rocks and shooting fireworks.

Demonstrations have become common in Minneapolis since Good was fatally shot on January 7. Agents who have yanked people from their cars and homes have been confronted by angry bystanders demanding they leave.
“This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three people who said they were questioned or detained in recent days. The lawsuit says two are Somali and one is Hispanic; all three were US citizens. The lawsuit seeks an end to what the ACLU describes as a practice of racial profiling and warrantless arrests. The government did not immediately comment.
Similar lawsuits have been filed in Los Angeles and Chicago and despite seeing initial success, have tended to fizzle in the face of appeal. In Chicago, for example, last year a judge ordered a senior US Border Patrol official to brief her nightly following a lawsuit by news outlets and protesters who said agents used too much force during demonstrations. But three days later, an appeals court stopped the updates.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooting late Wednesday resulted from a struggle between an ICE agent and a man he was trying to apprehend.
“During the struggle, the federal agent discharged his weapon, striking one adult male,” O’Hara told reporters.

Amid the tussle, two people emerged from a nearby residence and attacked the federal agent with a snow shovel and a broom handle, the DHS said, identifying the wounded man as an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
The man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg and was transported to a hospital for treatment, while the two others were taken into custody, officials said.
Senior White House official Stephen Miller on Thursday accused Minnesota officials of “deliberately, wilfully and purposefully” inciting a “violent insurrection”.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt also lashed out at journalists, saying “media is absolutely complicit in this violence”.
But concerns about the tactics used by ICE are not limited to incidents of violent street enforcement.
In 2025, ICE broke its record for people dying in detention with 30 deaths, according to data released by the agency.
On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that the death of 55-year-old Cuban immigrant Lunas Campos in detention, would likely be declared a homicide, with “the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.
The deaths and the incidence of violence have raised questions about inadequate training and oversight of ICE agents.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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Federal immigration officers detain a protester outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. Photo: AP

ICE agents, including one wearing a ‘NOT ICE’ face covering. Photo: AP

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds an image of what she said was an ICE vehicle vandalised in Minneapolis. Photo: Reuters

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A federal agent walks through tear gas smoke after it was used on protesting community members in  Minneapolis on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Law enforcement officers at the scene of a new shooting in Minneapolis. Photo: AP

Law enforcement at the scene of the latest shooting. Photo: AP

A protester attempts to protect themselves as federal agents fire munitions and pepper balls on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

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A woman reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest in Minneapolis on Sunday. Photo: AP

A federal immigration officer uses pepper spray on a person in Minneapolis. Photo: AP

An ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ rally in Minneapolis on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Signage for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week in Minneapolis. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP

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Two people sit in the street with their hands up in front of Minnesota State Patrol during a protest in Minneapolis on Friday. Photo: AP

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference in Minneapolis on Saturday. Photo: AP

ICE agents detain a protester in Minneapolis on Friday. Photo: Reuters

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Signs hanging at a petrol station in Minneapolis for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Photo: Reuters

A protester covers a tear-gas canister deployed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Photo: AP

Renee Nicole Good moments before she was fatally shot. Photo: Alpha News via Reuters

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A demonstrator protests outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Washington on Thursday. Photo: AFP

A makeshift memorial for Renee Nicole Good. Photo: AP

Renee Nicole Good, who was shot dead in her car by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Photo: Social media via Reuters

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Gregory Bovino, a US Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of crackdowns. Photo: AP

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US president wants to quickly ‘put an end to the travesty’ in Minnesota where protests have flared after violent encounters involving federal agents


US president wants to quickly ‘put an end to the travesty’ in Minnesota where protests have flared after violent encounters involving federal agents.


Minneapolis on edge as Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act and send in troops

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US president wants to quickly ‘put an end to the travesty’ in Minnesota where protests have flared after violent encounters involving federal agents