# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/833 "2026-01-24T17:10:34Z")
So they pistol-whipped him, then the pistol discharged, and they thought it was him shooting back somehow, so they then shot him? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/834 "2026-01-24T17:11:36Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > When does it become open season in ICE agents? What will they do, shoot us?. - Now - Yes ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/835 "2026-01-24T17:13:21Z")
Revolution in 10, 9, 8… NM, already in progress. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/836 "2026-01-24T17:21:19Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > People are commenting about it here with some additional details: Holy crap, 26th and Nicollet is very close to here. Nicollet Street, for those who don’t know, is also called “Eat Street” because of the proliferation of restaurants which include many, many ethnic restaurants and grocery outlets. My go-to Asian grocery is right where the shooting happened. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/837 "2026-01-24T17:21:57Z")
As will happen. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/838 "2026-01-24T17:22:44Z")
Sorry, bro. They will pay. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/839 "2026-01-24T17:25:01Z")
Possibly, but that is years down the road and who knows what the body count will be by then. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/840 "2026-01-24T17:28:34Z")
Good lord! They say he had a weapon and ammo - but did he have his weapon out? How does it take that many persons who are incapable of subduing a single person? They teach pistol whipping in a crowd of officers as proper technique? And then the 2d thug shoots him as he is lying flat? Any info as to who the victim was? Citizen? Undocumented? Protester? (NOT THAT ANYONE DESERVED TO BE SHOT.) What will it take for SOMEONE - Congress or the courts - to put meaningful restraints on this violence? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/841 "2026-01-24T17:28:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Possibly, but that is years down the road Maybe not. > [@](#): > > and who knows what the body count will be by then. High. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/842 "2026-01-24T17:29:37Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > What will it take for SOMEONE - Congress or the courts - to put meaningful restraints on this violence? Not such inert institutions but the people themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/843 "2026-01-24T17:31:45Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > What will it take for SOMEONE - Congress or the courts - to put meaningful restraints on this violence? We’re at the point now where ICE policy is to ignore the constitution, the Supreme Court is doing nothing, the leaders in Congress are cowards and armed men can now go door to door to remove people that you’re hiding in the attic. If YOU, the PEOPLE don’t do something about it now, then the game is over. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/844 "2026-01-24T17:33:57Z")
Yep. You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/845 "2026-01-24T17:40:22Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > What will it take for SOMEONE - Congress or the courts - to put meaningful restraints on this violence? One of their own to get hurt. I’ve said it before, I think one of the turning points of this will be a republican politician and/or their family getting dragged out of their car and detained for days or being murdered on the street. At some point it’s going to happen. So far they detained an off duty cop, but that didn’t seem to make a difference. When it comes to republican policies, the whole ‘rules for thee’ thing generally applies, but you can’t name drop your way out of an ICE arrest or buy your wife back into existence after they kill her. Short of that, if ICE occupies a red enough city, that might start changing things. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/846 "2026-01-24T17:41:10Z")
Every day I wake up and I grab my phone and I wonder “what new horror has transpired since I went to bed” and sometimes I wonder if it’ll only be embarrassing or if it’ll be sinister too. This country is shit. And it’s fucked. And there’s no one that’s going to stop it because the democratic party is a joke and Americans don’t know how to fight back against their own government. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/847 "2026-01-24T17:42:33Z")
I bet the small government “don’t tread on me” constitution-hugging conservatives are going to love this one too. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/848 "2026-01-24T17:47:21Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > This country is shit. And it’s fucked. It’s being made that way by idiots, but it doesn’t have to be this way. > [@](#): > > And there’s no one that’s going to stop it because the democratic party is a joke and Americans don’t know how to fight back against their own government. Yes, and… we’re about to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/849 "2026-01-24T17:47:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > One of their own to get hurt. > [@SenorBeef](#): > > I bet the small government “don’t tread on me” constitution-hugging conservatives are going to love this one too. Maybe I should change my answer above from “One of their own to get hurt” to “As soon as ICE starts treading on _them_”. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/850 "2026-01-24T17:49:18Z")
By the way, I’m watching a Meidas Touch livestream: > **[BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7JA-3nYH4%2F)** > > Status Coup's JT Cestkowski is LIVE in Minneapolis as ICE has SHOT another observer. SUPPORT our INDEPENDENT ON THE GROUND reporting for as low as $5 bucks a... The nazis are basically just… occupying the street? I don’t get it, why aren’t they just moving along toward the next “illegals” they need to arrest? (I mean, I _do_ get it: they are an occupying brownshirt force.) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/851 "2026-01-24T17:53:37Z")
I’m watching a guy live streaming the protests. People around ICE lines screaming at them stuff like “shame on you” and “are you proud of yourselves” and “do you think you’re the good guys?” and I think that’s pretty ballsy given that anyone can be murdered at any time and a pretty good tact. Even though the people are keeping their distance and not being threatening or violent at all, ICE is of course firing tear gas and pepper balls right at them. Minneapolis people have some fight in them I think. I’d be curious how different regions would respond. I think if they did this shit in most of California people wouldn’t do shit. If they did it in Philly people would attack ICE. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461/852 "2026-01-24T17:55:48Z")
I think pretty soon there’s going to be a massacre. Some armed coward is going to get spooked by a crowd and he’s going to start firing into the crowd, and his fellow brownshirts are going to join in and we’re going to have a crowd of 30 or 40 dead people. And we’ll have another 50 wounded people that may die because ICE won’t let any medics go near them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1-7-2026/1026461.md?page=43)