President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota in response to anti-ICE riots and violence against federal law enforcement in the state.
“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 wrote.
This comes after the January 7 fatal shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Good after she rammed an ICE agent with her vehicle, and the Wednesday night shooting of a Venezuelan illegal immigrant after he attacked a federal law enforcement agent during an arrest. Both of these shootings occurred in Minneapolis. In the wake of Wednesday’s shooting, rioters damaged ICE vehicles and stole documents and weapons from them. On a livestream, agitators showed documents that revealed personal details of federal law enforcement agents that had been taken from the vehicles.
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