Escalation: Trump Threatens Insurrection Act Deployment
Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis. In a Truth Social post he wrote, “I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT” if state leaders do not stop attacks on ICE. Gov. Tim Walz urged calm, and Attorney General Keith Ellison said he would challenge any invocation in court.
The warning followed a night in which a federal officer shot a man in the leg during an enforcement stop in north Minneapolis. The officer was attacked by three men with a shovel and a broom handle before firing. All three were arrested, and both the officer and the wounded man were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Clashes erupted in the Hawthorne area as federal officers in gas masks fired tear gas and protesters threw rocks and fireworks. Federal vehicles were damaged, and the FBI offered up to $100,000 to recover stolen government property and arrest those responsible.
Operation Metro Surge has put roughly 3,000 federal officers in Minnesota after ICE sent about 2,000 earlier this month. More than 2,500 arrests have been made since Nov. 29. Minneapolis’ mayor has demanded ICE leave, and a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court alleges racial profiling and warrantless arrests of U.S. citizens.
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