Posted on 01/07/2026 1:24:17 PM PST by Red Badger
Chaos erupted on the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday as federal immigration enforcement agents were forced to deploy non-lethal munitions to disperse a hostile crowd of agitators after ICE fatally shot a rioter who attempted to run over agents in Minneapolis.
According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the incident began while federal agents were conducting “targeted enforcement operations” in the neighborhood as part of a massive surge of 2,000 federal officers into the Twin Cities area.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin stated that a group of “rioters” had begun blocking ICE officers. The agency alleges that one individual—identified by local sources as a 37-year-old U.S. citizen—”weaponized her vehicle” in a deliberate attempt to kill federal agents.
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement, and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” the DHS statement read. “The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem later characterized the driver’s actions as an act of “domestic terrorism.”
As news of the shooting spread, hundreds of demonstrators descended on the area. Tensions boiled over into physical confrontations, with federal agents deploying pepper spray, flash-bangs, and paintballs to push back crowds.
By midday, the neighborhood had effectively become a standoff zone.
A video circulating online, captured by X user Dymanh Chhoun, shows an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) firing a pepperball round directly into the face of a rioter, who allegedly tried to grab the gun from the agent.
Chhoun wrote: “Happening right now in South Minneapolis near Portland Avenue and 34th Street, people are protesting a shooting that occurred earlier today.”
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Getting closer to invoking the Insurrection Act - which is ready to go.
Every time a Pepper ball hits a rioter, another angel gets its wings.
yep, please, please, please start rioting leftists!!!
I DARE YOU!
It was one of Furiously Jackassin’s people that got it in the face.
Good shootin’, Tex.
Tell them its an organic, spicey, fair-trade Somali Xawaash pepper-ball.
They'll love it and ask if Whole Foods sells it.
I watched the brief press conference with Walz. It seemed to me he was really trying to stir up @#$% and was ready to call out the national guard and state police to go after Feds. That was my interruption os Walz’s comments. The state police commissioner was having none of that and the head of the NG danced around Walz’s comments as well. Walz was steaming mad after the police commissioners commented for everybody to stay out of the streets while protesting, etc...
Sorta looked like old bay seasoning
It’ll never be as good as the guy who got shot in the nuts with pepper balls. That one always makes me laugh.
All of this is being done because the illegals are the left’s very survival as a political party. They cannot survive without the MILLIONS of illegals they brought here for votes so they will fight to the death to keep them here..every single last one of them
It’s high time ICE started using real live ammo.
Well said.
Big time.
The crowd keeps yelling: “Kill someone else! Kill someone else!”
They will get their wish. They won’t like it.
We need that Insurrection Act real soon.
Ditto. There is something serious wrong with Elmer Fudstone...
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