President Donald Trump did not hold back on Thursday morning while responding to the attacks on ICE agents in Minneapolis, warning he will invoke the Insurrection Act if Minnesota politicians fail to rein in the “professional agitators and insurrectionists.”
Trump’s statement comes after a night of extreme chaos in the city, which included an agent having to fire a defensive round after being attacked with a shovel handle by an illegal alien and rioters robbing paperwork and weapons from an ICE vehicle.
BREAKING: Minneapolis rioters successfully BROKE OPEN a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and STOLE A RIFLE and ammunition before fleeing
I captured the thief’s face and license plate on the getaway vehicle.
PLEASE SHARE and HELP IDENTIFY this POS.
I have forwarded this… pic.twitter.com/7rwfIsN7v6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
“Minneapolis rioters successfully BROKE OPEN a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and STOLE A RIFLE and ammunition before fleeing,” independent journalist Nick Sortor wrote on X, with a video he filmed of the incident.
Trump responded to the mayhem in a post to Truth Social on Thursday morning.
The president wrote:
“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 wrote in his post.
The president added, “Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT.”
The day before, an ICE agent was forced to shoot an illegal alien in the leg after he and accomplices attacked him.
DHS wrote in a press release:
In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car. The subject then fled on foot.
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. While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment 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.
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.
All three subjects ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves inside.
The attacked officer and subject are both in the hospital. Both attackers are in custody.
This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers.
During the riot on Wednesday evening, militants reportedly destroyed multiple ICE agent cars, stealing items, vandalizing them, and even breaking into an agent’s gun box in the street.
“Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond,”
BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond
THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE
DHS agents are SITTING DUCKS
WE NEED MARINES HERE NOW! Locals are BEGGING for relief, 47! pic.twitter.com/v88fqedOOV
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
Sortor added, “THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE DHS agents are SITTING DUCKS WE NEED MARINES HERE NOW! Locals are BEGGING for relief, 47!”
BREAKING: Anti-ICE Mob is now slashing tires and busting windows of ICE vehicle pic.twitter.com/K4qkcxb0Qb
— Human Events (@HumanEvents) January 15, 2026
More generally speaking, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reported a jaw dropping 1300% increase in assaults against officers and a 3200% increase in vehicular attacks, attributed to radical rhetoric from sanctuary politicians.
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