Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back Thursday on reports that protesters in Minneapolis obtained official documents after a tense night of anti-ICE demonstrations that included a shooting involving federal agents.
Independent journalist Ford Fischer, the editor of News2Share, posted two videos from the scene. In one caption, Fischer wrote: “Still on scene out here at tonight’s shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis. As the Feds depart, community members appear to find 9mm unspent rounds left behind.” In a second post, he added that community members opposing ICE appeared to find a “stack of papers including arrest warrants and intelligence.”
Asked about the incident, Noem said she believed the vehicles involved were not from her department.
“I believe those vehicles were FBI vehicles, not our Department of Homeland Security vehicles, so I’m not certain what documents were in there that those criminals may have taken and seen,” she said.
Why It Matters
The stepped-up federal presence in Minneapolis comes as the Trump administration carries out immigration enforcement operations in major U.S. cities. In Minneapolis, those actions have triggered ongoing protests and heightened tensions following two shootings by federal agents in the span of a week.
What to Know
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the federal force in the city—he described it as five times larger than the city’s roughly 600-officer police department—has “invaded” Minneapolis.
The protests continued after a federal officer shot a man in the leg on Wednesday. That shooting came one week after Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security said the man who was shot is a Venezuelan national described by the agency as an “illegal alien,” and alleged he tried to avoid arrest by fleeing.
According to the department’s account, the man first fled in a vehicle, then ran after crashing.
“The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer,” the department said on X.
The department said the officer and the man ended up in a struggle on the ground, when two other people approached and “also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.”
“As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick,” the department said. “Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg.”
The department said both the officer and the man who was shot were taken to the hospital.
What People Are Saying
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday: “Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which their are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy. “
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz posted on X on Thursday: “State investigators have been on the scene in North Minneapolis. I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets. But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace. Don’t give him what he wants.”
