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Protests erupted again in Minneapolis after a federal law enforcement officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg Wednesday night after being attacked by him and two others wielding a snow shovel and a broom.
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Venezuelan man was an illegal immigrant who fled a traffic stop by federal agents in his car. When he crashed his vehicle, he fled on foot and then violently resisted arrest, the agency said.
At that point, the agent making the arrest was attacked by two more individuals, and “the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick,” the agency said. The agent, “fearing for his life,” fired his gun in defense and wounded the Venezuelan man in the leg. The three alleged assailants then fled and barricaded themselves inside a nearby residence.
Federal agents entered the apartment, arresting the men, according to the local ABC affiliate KSTP. The illegal alien who was shot in the leg was taken to the hospital and was reported in stable condition, according to Reuters.
The agent who was attacked was badly beaten and is receiving treatment, News Nation’s Ali Bradley reports.
“This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor [Tim] Walz and Mayor [Jacob] Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers,” DHS said in a statement on X.
At 6:50 PM CT, federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela who was released into the country by Joe Biden in 2022.
In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 15, 2026
The shooting took place about three hours after Walz, a Democrat, issued a video message to Minnesotans telling them federal agents were causing “chaos and disruption and trauma” in the state.
“All across Minnesota, people are learning about opportunities not just to resist, but to help people who are in danger,” Walz said. “Thousands upon thousands of our fellow Minnesotans are going to be relying on mutual aid in the days and weeks to come and they need our support.”
Walz and Frey have repeatedly asked President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to cease immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
The shooting Wednesday night comes one week after a federal immigration officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis when Good, according to Noem, attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon against the ICE agent. Some eyewitnesses and Democratic officials disputed that account, saying Good attempted to drive away from agents.
The FBI is investigating the shooting that left Good dead.
Anti-ICE protests have increased in the city following Good’s death, and continued Wednesday night.
Law enforcement employed the use of “flash bangs” to control protests after the most recent shooting incident, according to Bradley.
NOW: Several flash bangs deployed in an attempt to get the crowd to move back at the shooting scene in north Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/s3NP3Fcb6E
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) January 15, 2026
In early January, DHS announced it was surging 2,000 federal immigration officers to the city, and the Trump administration announced the deployment of hundreds more following the shooting last week.
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This article was originally published at The Daily Signal. Photo Credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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To answer AmyM: 1) During covid, joe biden tried to force every American to wear a mask with no medical proof that it helped us. Did you write a letter to biden about masks? Federal agents are facing cra?it’s trying to harm them and their families. ICE wears masks mainly to protect their families and their privacy from crazies being paid to provide chaos. 2) I am a Black woman that supports deportations of EVERY ILLEGAL MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD FROM AMERICA. “Brown” people are deported because most of the illegals that crossed our border during illegitimate President Joe biden came from warm countries and are not white! It’s nothing personal. If white people are illegal, they are getting deported too! Hallelujah! GOD says we all are to obey the laws of the land. 3) As a 75 year old Black woman, I haven’t encountered this racism you all talk about daily during my entire life. I live where I choose. Go where I choose. I lived in Chicago for 6 years in the 70s in an almost 100 percent white area and was treated with kindness wherever I went. Sorry, no racism. 4) President Trump’s blowing up Iran’s nuclear weapons keeps you and me and our families from being blown off of the earth by an insane government. Ask the Venezuelan people if they minded Madura being gone? Did you not see all of the celebrations world wide by Venezuelans? 5) The level of unrest is by wealthy people that hate President Trump and are paying people to create chaos and wreck havoc to everything that might give President Trump success. The paid crazies are causing the unrest and I hope every last one of them is arrested and put in federal prison. 6) A civilian was shot that rammed an ICE Agent so hard he had internal bleeding. Another person was shot after attacking an ICE Agent with shovel.
ICE is deporting illegals out of our country and most of us of all races, brown, white, black support this 100%. please read our Constitution and read your Bible. Both say we must obey the laws of the land. If a person disobeys America’s laws, they get arrested, jailed, and some are deported, regardless of color. FATHER GOD please let Americans read both YOUR WORD and our Constitution and then obey all laws; both YOURS and Americas. Please send laborers into all neighborhoods so people will be saved from the wrath of satan in JESUS MIGHTY NAME. Amen.
At the center of Jesus’ teaching is the Sermon on the Mount—humility, mercy, peacemaking, love of enemy, care for the poor, refusal of domination. And when asked what matters most, Jesus didn’t hedge:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. On these hang all the law and the prophets.
That’s the standard.
Not vibes. Not party loyalty. Not fear.
So I’m genuinely trying to understand how so many Christians are reconciling that teaching with what is happening right now.
We are watching:
– federal agents conducting arrests while masked and unidentifiable
– immigration enforcement actions that overwhelmingly target people of color
– documented efforts to erase or sanitize histories of racism and oppression
– aggressive foreign policy posturing framed as dominance rather than diplomacy
– and a level of unrest that is not random, but responsive
And in Minnesota, an ICE agent fatally shot a civilian during an enforcement operation — an incident now under investigation, one that has sparked protests and demands for accountability nationwide.
You don’t get to hand-wave that away.
If you are defending the use of lethal force by the state without demanding transparency, accountability, and restraint — that is not “law and order.” That is power without conscience.
And here’s the part I won’t soften:
If you support these actions, then say that.
Say you support authoritarianism.
Say you support state violence as a tool of control.
Say you support a strongman model of leadership.
But don’t tell me it’s Christianity.
Because the Sermon on the Mount does not bless domination.
It does not excuse cruelty.
It does not align itself with fear, scapegoating, or collective punishment.
Following Jesus has never been about protecting empire.
It’s been about challenging it.
I’m not asking everyone to agree with me.
I am asking for honesty.
If your politics require you to abandon the core ethical teachings of your faith, then at least be brave enough to admit the trade you’re making.
Loyalty to power is not righteousness.
And calling it faith doesn’t make it so.
I pray that regular law abiding citizen help our ICE agents through prayer and by helping the agents that may be danger. What was meant for evil against the ICE agents will turn around for good. In Jesus’ name. I pray.
I will not be surprised if this story gets spun to highlighting ‘the cruelty of excessive force used by the agents’
Father, God,
We know that the father of lies will continue to distort truth and deceive people to believe the lies. And, too, You have told us through Your Son that as we confess His name, the gates of Hell won’t prevail (Matthew 16:18/ I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.)
We rejoice in that truth; that Promise. So, thank you for this promise, this strategy in declaring the power of Your sovereignty, Your Salvation over such darkness. Show us how to confess the name of our Savior and where to confess the name of our Lord whenever we see or read of such instances like this.
Perhaps this confession will be a written response, or an article, or praying. (What a witness this will bring!)
We love You, Lord, for showing us the way to victory. Help us be vigilant in knowing that our struggle is not against any person, but against Evil itself. Help us to be burdened over sinners lostness, and seek to be Your instruments for them to be saved from all this insanity which Evil has wrought
AMEN