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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to reports of official documents being taken amid Anti-ICE protests on Wednesday night in Minneapolis.
Reporting from the scene, News2Share editor Ford Fischer posted two videos with the captions, "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."
"Also left behind by the Feds appear to GW [be] a stack of papers including arrest warrants and intelligence now in the hands of Minneapolis community members opposing ICE."
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Responding to a question about the incident, Noem said Thursday, "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."
Newsweek reached out to the FBI for comment.
Why It Matters
The large presence of federal agents in Minneapolis comes amid a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities by the Trump administration. Protests have erupted in Minneapolis in response to enforcement efforts and two shootings by federal agents in the city in the span of one week.
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to break up continuing protests in Minnesota.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said in a social media post.
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What To Know
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the federal force, which is five times the size of the city’s 600-officer police force, has “invaded” Minneapolis.
Protests in Minneapolis continued after a federal officer shot a man in the leg on Wednesday, a week after Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in the city. The Department of Homeland Security said the man was an “illegal alien” from Venezuela who attempted to evade arrest by fleeing the scene.
The agency said the man fled in a vehicle, then on foot after crashing the vehicle.
"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 of Homeland Security said on X.
The Department of Homeland Security said the federal officer and the man were in a “struggle” on the ground when two additional individuals 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 DHS 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 DHS said the officer and the man who was shot were both taken to the hospital.
What People Are Saying
President Donald Trump, 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.”
Update 1/15/26, 12:48 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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