# The ICE shootings in Minneapolis (1/7/2026) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 8, 2026, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461 "2026-01-08T05:32:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/613 "2026-01-15T04:14:39Z")
I don’t know what to tell you, she covers all of this in the article in detail that makes more sense. She knows about the four steps, she was offered the job _anyway_. The four steps were supposed to come before the offer. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/614 "2026-01-15T04:37:50Z")
I read the article. I didn’t memorize it. The press conference is going on right now. Basically, they’re saying “Leave the area if you don’t live here” and more of the usual. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/615 "2026-01-15T04:50:29Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A press conference is scheduled around 10:15PM Central time, about 18 minutes from now. Who is holding a press conference? > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The press conference is going on right now. Basically, they’re saying “Leave the area if you don’t live here” and more of the usual. Who is saying that? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/616 "2026-01-15T04:53:14Z")
It was held by the Minneapolis police department, and aired live on CNN. It’s over now. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/617 "2026-01-15T05:20:07Z")
[Goebbels wannabe Stephen Miller has some commentary on this situation.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-dark-message-ice-104347147.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > Legal experts smacked down Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s ominous message to ICE agents that they enjoy “federal immunity” and argued that he might have just opened himself up to impeachment proceedings. > > During an appearance Tuesday on _The Will Cain Show_ on Fox News, Miller directly addressed immigration enforcement agents in a breathless rant that was [shared by the Department of Homeland Security’s](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2011213308968538361) official X account. > > “ **You have immunity to perform your duties** , and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties,” Miller said. “The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/618 "2026-01-15T06:17:29Z")
Protesters have seized two abandoned Gestapo vehicles. > **[unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3mcgpwzwoks2l)** > > Feds cleared out from this road but left one vehicle. > > It's been broken open. > **[unraveled (@unraveledpress.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/unraveledpress.com/post/3mcgrifhi5s2z)** > > Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches. > **[CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (@crimethinc.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/crimethinc.com/post/3mcgszz6v322z)** > > After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. > > ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs,... > **[CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (@crimethinc.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/crimethinc.com/post/3mcgtlorlbk2l)** > > Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests. > > This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. > > ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil... [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usktoienjig6rm5cxm46j3zl/bafkreicfrj6qrooyjs2yupu3fgupxbyfd3mhbi3g7dvsajnopyn2lz6zyq@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usktoienjig6rm5cxm46j3zl/bafkreicfrj6qrooyjs2yupu3fgupxbyfd3mhbi3g7dvsajnopyn2lz6zyq@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/619 "2026-01-15T06:42:13Z")
I am glad to see Minneapolis citizens protesting like this. My fear is this will only allow Trump to send more force to the area. National Guard or regular military. Trump admin made this problem but will claim they are suppressing an insurrection in which all citizens can be scooped up and not just immigrants. Pretty sure this is what the Trump admin wants. The amazing thing, to me, is how ICE can see how they are so thoroughly reviled by their own countrymen and yet zealously keep doing what they are doing. They have to hide their identities for fear of being noticed as part of ICE. That makes them nothing more than thugs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/620 "2026-01-15T06:51:20Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > My fear is this will only allow Trump to send more force to the area. National Guard or regular military. Trump admin made this problem but will claim they are suppressing an insurrection in which all citizens can be scooped up and not just immigrants. If this is how he wants to start the Second Civil War, then he may as well get on with it. It’s not a war he can win. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/621 "2026-01-15T07:03:55Z")
Are these regular police or all ICE? I see “Police” patches on a lot of uniforms but is ICE using those patches or are regular Minneapolis police fighting their citizens alongside ICE? If so, why are the mayor and governor supporting ICE this way? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/622 "2026-01-15T07:18:56Z")
As far as I can tell, the city and state police are trying to keep the protestors away from the Gestapo. Meanwhile, Todd Blanche is threatening to Maduro the mayor and governor. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:an3gbmel5ornh77wzqdknjya/bafkreibc447mh5rqk6rq2vaws3s5bg7s76gbnw6wp4dmsble5wvjp7ztoq@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:an3gbmel5ornh77wzqdknjya/bafkreibc447mh5rqk6rq2vaws3s5bg7s76gbnw6wp4dmsble5wvjp7ztoq@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/623 "2026-01-15T07:35:41Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > My fear is this will only allow Trump to send more force to the area. > **[Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already...](https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/)** > > LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already... ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/624 "2026-01-15T08:02:59Z")
I 100% get what they are on about but I think there is more here than the article suggests (The Onion or not). Right now Trump admin is targeting immigrants. Unrest in Minneapolis will open the door for Trump admin to go after ANY US citizens. But we have to protest. I can’t imagine not opposing this crap. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/625 "2026-01-15T08:09:26Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Unrest in Minneapolis will open the door for Trump admin to go after ANY US citizens. They sent a baby to the hospital tonight. We’re already there. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/626 "2026-01-15T08:11:16Z")
Doubtless the baby was threatening them and caused internal injuries. Ah…even they can’t make that stick. They will blame it on the mother risking her own baby. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/627 "2026-01-15T08:22:54Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > The amazing thing, to me, is how ICE can see how they are so thoroughly reviled by their own countrymen and yet zealously keep doing what they are doing. I think about this every time some fool espouses the "heroism of the brave ‘patriots’, and pretend like they don’t understand why city leaders and citizens are opposed to it. If it isn’t already obvious (it is)we fecking hate you and wouldn’t complain a bit if you all shot _yourselves_ in the face. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/628 "2026-01-15T08:57:50Z")
Apparently the abandoned vehicle captured by the freedom fighters had ICE’s entire “battle plan” for Minneapolis inside it, including radio frequencies, contact numbers, and hotel room assignments. > **[Pacific Antifascist Research Collective (@pacantifa.is)](https://bsky.app/profile/pacantifa.is/post/3mcgze46w2k23)** > > ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies. > **[Hal (@adaptable.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/adaptable.bsky.social/post/3mcgyae6uzk2w)** > > Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/629 "2026-01-15T09:00:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Apparently the abandoned vehicle captured by the freedom fighters had ICE’s entire “battle plan” for Minneapolis inside it, including radio frequencies, contact numbers, and hotel room assignments. I suspect they are not hiring the smartest people and training is crap. Oversight, also crap. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/630 "2026-01-15T09:10:57Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > The amazing thing, to me, is how ICE can see how they are so thoroughly reviled by their own countrymen and yet zealously keep doing what they are doing. What they see is a bunch of terrorists who hate them and America. The are cheered on by their family and friends. Their leaders praise them and tell them they can do no wrong. They got the job because they aren’t the type to be thoughtful or nuanced. > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > That makes them nothing more than thugs. And proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/631 "2026-01-15T09:11:11Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I suspect they are not hiring the smartest people and training is crap. Oversight, also crap. I think that’s quite the understatement. Based on the evidence, they’re hiring bigoted Trumpist morons who receive virtually no training and have no accountability. I suspect the Gestapo probably had better training and discipline, although equally no accountability. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/632 "2026-01-15T09:13:53Z")
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