Boy Mayor says life in Minneapolis has been hurt by ICE. Says a ‘huge percentage of the shootings taking place in Minneapolis this year have been by ICE’. Tells protestors to go home and don’t take Trump’s bait. https://t.co/D7m1XxFeXl
— SteveAustinWI (@SteveAustinWI) January 15, 2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey slammed ICE officials for ‘creating chaos’ in his city after an agent who was ‘ambushed’ during an arrest shot a suspect in the leg.
The Department of Homeland Security said the suspect was an illegal migrant from Venezuela who ran away on foot Wednesday night before joining two others to attack the agent with a ‘broomstick or shovel.’
The suspect was shot in the leg and remains in a stable condition in hospital. Two accomplices were also in police custody, and the agent involved was also taken to hospital after he was violently set upon by the trio.
Law enforcement officers wearing masks were using tear gas and flash bangs on protesters at the scene, just 4.5 miles north of where Good was shot, in an effort to control the crowds.
Frey urged protesters who had arrived at the scene to ‘go home’, warning they were making matters worse and ‘taking the bait.’
‘For anyone who is taking the bait tonight: stop,’ he said at a late-night press conference to address the second ICE shooting to rock his city in a week.
‘It is not helpful. Go home. We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos.
‘You are not helping the undocumented immigrants in our city, you are not helping the people who call this place home.’