At the first local press conference following the shooting, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey recounted watching the video of masked federal agents “pummeling one of our citizens” before shooting and killing him, then asked, “How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?”
An another press conference later Saturday, Frey highlighted how two of the three homicides recorded so far this year in the city have involved federal agents.
Governor Tim Walz said the video footage he’s seen of the shooting is “sickening” and alleged that DHS officials have lied about what happened:
“Thank God we have video,” Walz said. “Because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them, or something.”
“It’s nonsense, and it’s lies,” Walz said. “This needs to be the event that says, ‘enough.’”
He once again called for President Trump to “Remove this force from Minnesota. They are sowing chaos and violence.
“We can’t live like this,” Walz said:
He also called for state authorities to lead the investigation into the shooting, said that the state was “creating a log of evidence” to eventually prosecute federal agents, and that “Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word on this.”
Numerous other state and local officials, including Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, repeated their demands for the Trump’s administration’s siege to end.
Minnesota congressman and House GOP whip Tom Emmer said in an X post that Walz and Minneapolis leaders have “put federal law enforcement’s lives at risk”:
The governor and local leaders’ rhetoric has empowered criminals and put federal law enforcement’s lives at risk. It’s dangerous and has made the situation in Minneapolis much worse. Unlike my Democrat colleagues, I’m going to let law enforcement conduct their investigation and not jump to asinine conclusions. We are grateful no Border Patrol officers were harmed.
People in neighborhoods around the Twin Cities gathered on sidewalks, in parks and on street corners Saturday night to mark the death of another person killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA hospital, was identified as the man killed by a Border Patrol agent on the south side of the city Saturday morning. The Department of Homeland Security said the agent acted in self-defense after attempting to disarm Pretti, but Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said that account was “nonsense” after reviewing videos of the shooting.
Saturday’s incident happened less than three weeks after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Good and amid an ongoing surge in immigration enforcement action across the city.
Neighbors, many with small candles nestled in their hands, gathered near Summit Avenue and Lexington Parkway in St. Paul, Minnesota.
A person holds a candle in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026.
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Several people hold up candles during a vigil in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026.
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People gather with candles in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026.
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Other people gathered quietly in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis and near Lake Nokomis, as well.
People gather at a vigil near Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 24, 2026.
Pretti’s family said in a statement that Pretti was “a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.”
The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement alongside his father in the Minneapolis area earlier this week has an active and pending case in immigration court and cannot be legally deported yet, according to government records reviewed by CBS News.
The ICE operation that led Liam Adrian Conejo Ramos and his father to be taken into government custody, captured on videos and photos that have gone viral, has garnered national attention and raised questions about who exactly the Trump administration is targeting in its mass deportation campaign.
Justice Department records reviewed by CBS News indicate Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Ramos, have immigration court cases listed as “pending.” The records by the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review do not list any deportation orders in either case, indicating that an immigration judge still must consider Liam and his father’s claims before any deportation attempt. The information says the family’s immigration court case was docketed on Dec. 17, 2024.
CBS News was able to review the government information after obtaining the “alien” numbers issued to Liam and his father. Those “A numbers” are issued by the U.S. government to immigrants, illegal and legal alike, to internally track their deportation cases or immigration applications.
Liam and his father are now being held at the Dilley detention center in Texas, ICE’s long-term holding site for families with underage children, according to officials and the agency’s detainee tracking system.
Families at the Texas detention center held a protest there on Saturday, an attorney representing migrant children in federal immigration custody confirmed to CBS News. The attorney said the protest was peaceful in nature and involved some of the children holding signs.
Representatives for Liam and his father say the family is from Ecuador and that they entered the U.S. in 2024 to request asylum. The family’s lawyer said they were able to get an appointment to enter the U.S. at an official crossing site along the southern border, with the government’s permission, through a Biden administration system that relied on a phone app called CBP One.Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said Friday the agency has “no record” of the family using CBP One.
The Trump administration shut down the CBP One process immediately after taking office, and converted it into a self-deportation app now known as CBP Home. It also revoked the legal protections the Biden administration offered those who entered under the program, targeting some of them for arrest and deportation, including during immigration court appointments in cities across the U.S.
The family’s lawyer has said Liam’s father does not appear to have a criminal record. DHS has called Liam’s father an “illegal alien” and accused him of attempting to flee ICE officers, abandoning his son in the process. McLaughlin, the DHS spokeswoman, said Liam’s father “committed a federal crime by evading arrest.”
And while immigrants with pending claims cannot be legally deported, immigration officials do have the authority to detain them, if they’re in the U.S. illegally or without a valid legal status, pending the adjudication of those cases.
Prokosh Law LLC, the law firm representing Liam and his father, did not provide further information when asked about the family’s immigration case.
“As their attorney of record, our primary concern at this time is Liam and Adrian’s safety, well-being, and the work that is involved in getting them released from detention,” the law firm told CBS News. “While we do the relevant work to secure their release, we are unable to provide further information to the press.”
Dueling narratives about the arrest
During a press conference in Minneapolis on Friday, Marcos Charles, the head of ICE’s deportation branch, said his officers targeted Liam’s father — not the child — during an arrest operation on Jan. 20. Charles said Liam was with his father inside a vehicle when ICE officers approached them.
Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, is detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after arriving home from preschool on Jan. 20, 2026, in a Minneapolis suburb.
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Charles said Liam’s father tried to escape on foot, “abandoning his child in the middle of winter in a vehicle.” He said an officer stayed with Liam, while others arrested his father. ICE officers “cared for” Liam and took him to a drive-through restaurant, Charles added.
ICE officers tried to get Liam’s family to take the child but the “people inside refused to take him in and open the door,” according to Charles. He noted his officers were “heartbroken” by the incident.
Sergio Amezcua, a pastor who said he’s spoken to Liam’s mother, noted she “was terrified” during the incident.
“ICE agents were trying to use the baby for her to come out of her house,” Amezcua said on CNN. “But the neighbors step[ped] up. Neighbors advised her not to do it.”
On Friday, Charles said families held by ICE get “top-notch care” at facilities like the Dilley center in Texas, calling their treatment “better than social services.”
“They have medical care. The food is good. They have learning services. They have church services available. They have recreation,” Charles said.
But advocates for immigrants have raised concerns about conditions at the Dilley facility. Neha Desai, an attorney at the California-based National Center for Youth Law, which represents migrant children in U.S. custody, said minors held at Dilley have experienced “a dramatic decline in their physical and mental health.”
“The current conditions at Dilley are fundamentally unsafe for anyone, let alone young children,” Desai said. “Since the re-opening of family detention, hundreds of families — including babies and toddlers — have been subjected to substandard medical care, degrading and harsh treatment and extremely prolonged times in custody.”
Gov. Josh Stein speaks while giving an update on N.C. Strong in Raleigh on Jan. 15.
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North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Saturday decried the killing by federal agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA in Minneapolis. Stein called his death “a travesty.”
“The videos coming out of Minnesota are awful, heartbreaking, and infuriating,” Stein said on social media site X.
Video showed agents “wrestling (Pretti) to the ground and shooting him multiple times” during a confrontation with protesters Saturday morning, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
The fatal shooting was the second by federal agents this month who arrived in large numbers in Minneapolis; Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte in November in addition to large operations in Chicago and other cities as part of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement plans.
Pretti “was exercising his first and second amendment constitutional rights,” Stein said. “ … He should still be alive right now. There must be a transparent investigation and accountability. This senseless violence must stop.”
This story was originally published January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM.
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Gov. Josh Stein speaks while giving an update on N.C. Strong in Raleigh on Jan. 15.
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North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Saturday decried the killing by federal agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA in Minneapolis. Stein called his death “a travesty.”
“The videos coming out of Minnesota are awful, heartbreaking, and infuriating,” Stein said on social media site X.
Video showed agents “wrestling (Pretti) to the ground and shooting him multiple times” during a confrontation with protesters Saturday morning, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
The fatal shooting was the second by federal agents this month who arrived in large numbers in Minneapolis; Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte in November in addition to large operations in Chicago and other cities as part of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement plans.
Pretti “was exercising his first and second amendment constitutional rights,” Stein said. “ … He should still be alive right now. There must be a transparent investigation and accountability. This senseless violence must stop.”
This story was originally published January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM.
Joe Marusak has been a reporter for The Charlotte Observer since 1989 covering the people, municipalities and major news events of the region, and was a news bureau editor for the paper. He currently reports on breaking news. Support my work with a digital subscription
Family members say the man killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
The Associated Press reported that the man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who loved getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good, who was shot behind the wheel of her SUV by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others.”
Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a couple of traffic tickets.
In a recent conversation with their son, his parents, who live in Wisconsin, told him to be careful when protesting.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said. “And he said he knows that. He knew that.”
The Department of Homeland Security said that the man was shot after he “approached” U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. Officials did not specify if Pretti brandished the gun, and it is not visible in bystander video of the shooting obtained and verified by CBS News, The AP and other outlets.
Family members said Pretti owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota. They said they had never known him to carry it.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara also said police believed he was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.
The family first learned of the shooting when they were called by an Associated Press reporter. They watched the video and said the man killed appeared to be their son. They then tried reaching out to officials in Minnesota.
“I can’t get any information from anybody,” Michael Pretti said Saturday. “The police, they said call Border Patrol, Border Patrol’s closed, the hospitals won’t answer any questions?”
Eventually, the family called the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, who they said confirmed had a body matching the name and description of their son.
The league announced the decision was made to “prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community” after a 37-year-old American citizen was killed by officers on a street in a commercial district less than two miles from Target Center, the downtown arena where the Timberwolves play.
The man who was killed was identified by family as Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration, The Associated Press is reporting.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said agents shot and killed him after they tried to disarm him but were “violently resisted.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said police believe he was a lawful gun owner.
The Warriors vs. Timberwolves game will now be played on Sunday. The two teams are also scheduled to play on Monday night.
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A Minneapolis man told CBS News Minnesota’s Frankie McLister that he couldn’t believe federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old man “in cold blood.” “Today this could’ve just as easily been me that got shot,” he said.
Minnesota firearms owner group issues statement: “We are deeply concerned”
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has issued the following statement on the fatal shooting of a man who federal officials say was carrying a firearm:
“We are deeply concerned by this morning’s reports that a federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis resulted in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents. According to local officials, the man was legally armed, a firearm was recovered at the scene, and he is believed to have been a lawful gun owner and permit to carry holder.
“Many critical facts remain unknown.
“We do not yet have an independent account of what initiated the encounter or what triggered the use of deadly force. Despite widespread speculation regarding intent, there has been no evidence produced indicating an intent to harm the officers. We are calling for a full and transparent investigation by both state and federal authorities.
“Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms—including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights. These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times.”
AP: Man killed by federal officer was Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse
Family members say the man killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who loved getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others.”
Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a couple of traffic tickets.
Warriors-Timberwolves game in Minneapolis postponed
The NBA has postponed a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors that was scheduled for Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis.
“The decision was made to prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community,” the league said.
The two teams will now play on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. CT at Target Center.
Walz: “Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word on this”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he had spoken to the White House twice on Saturday, to first request that federal agents leave the state, and to then say that state officials will investigate the deadly Border Patrol shooting in South Minneapolis.
“Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word on this. It must have the last word on this,” Walz said. “As I told the White House in no uncertain terms, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it, period.”
Walz also encouraged Minnesotans to protest peacefully, saying that residents cannot meet “violence with violence.”
“Despite the horrific acts by this federal government, Minnesota is standing up to this rule of law,” he said.
Walz added that Republicans “will not win another election for as long as they live” unless they “stand up for what’s right” and “stand up for human decency.”
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office requests help from Minnesota National Guard
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has asked for assistance from the Minnesota National Guard “due to the potential for continuing and growing conflict” after the second killing by a federal agent in Minneapolis since the start of the year.
Sheriff Dawanna Witt has requested National Guard members to aid her deputies at the Whipple Federal Building, the local headquarters for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protests have been a nigh constant sight outside the building since the killing of Renee Good on Jan. 7.
“Their job will be to assist the Sheriff’s Office in protecting life, preserving property, and helping to ensure the safety of all community members,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
The guard has been on standby at the direction of Gov. Tim Walz since Good’s death.
“We respect and protect everyone’s rights to voice concerns and stand up for what they believe in, but we urge all actions to remain peaceful and lawful,” the sheriff’s office said. “Our collective priority remains protecting our neighborhoods and keeping people safe.”
President Trump says Walz and Frey are “inciting insurrection”
President Trump took to Truth Social early Saturday afternoon after federal agents fatally shot a man in Minneapolis.
In his post, Trump shared a picture of the man’s gun, saying it was “ready to go.”
He also alleged local police weren’t protecting ICE officers and questioned if Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz “called them off.”
He went on to accuse Frey and Walz of inciting an insurrection “with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric.”
Trump added that if the “12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals” were not arrested and taken out of the state, “you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!”
Officer who killed Minneapolis man was “highly trained,” Bovino says
The federal officer who shot and killed a man in Minneapolis Saturday was “highly trained and has been serving as a Border Patrol agent for eight years,” the agency’s Commander at Large Greg Bovino said.
Bovino did not publicly identify the officer at an afternoon news conference. He repeated a Department of Homeland Security statement issued earlier in the day before refusing to answer a WCCO question about video evidence that contradicts the DHS narrative.
Homeland Security alleged the man who was killed approached agents with a handgun, but multiple videos taken before the shooting show him without a weapon in hand before agents tackled him to the ground.
Bovino said the “situation is evolving and more information is forthcoming.” He also said federal agents “need state and local law enforcement to help us coordinate to get violent criminals off the street.”
Rep. Tom Emmer “grateful no Border Patrol officers were harmed”
Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said he’s “grateful no Border Patrol officers were harmed” after federal agents shot and killed a man in south Minneapolis Saturday morning.
Emmer’s statement made no mention of the man killed, whom city officials have identified as a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident.
“The governor and local leaders’ rhetoric has empowered criminals and put federal law enforcement’s lives at risk. It’s dangerous and has made the situation in Minneapolis much worse,” Emmer said.”Unlike my Democrat colleagues, I’m going to let law enforcement conduct their investigation and not jump to asinine conclusions. We are grateful no Border Patrol officers were harmed.”
Aerial footage of Minneapolis protests
Watch live aerial footage of protests after federal agents shot and killed another Minneapolis resident during a federal immigration crackdown.
Officials ID person killed as 37-year-old Minneapolis man, ask Trump to end operation
Minneapolis city officials identified the man killed by federal agents as a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said local authorities have been given “very limited” information about what led to the shooting. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI are at the scene investigating, O’Hara said.
Mayor Jacob Frey said he has seen the video of agents “pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.”
“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” Frey said.
Frey called on President Trump to pull federal agents out of the city.
“To President Trump: This is a moment to act like a leader,” Frey said. “Put Minneapolis, put America first in this moment. Let’s achieve peace. Let’s end this operation, and I’m telling you, our city will come back, safety will be restored.”
Frey and O’Hara also asked the public to avoid the area of the shooting and asked anyone at the scene protesting to leave.
“We understand your frustrations,” O’Hara said. “This is not sustainable.”
O’Hara said the man killed was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.” The Department of Homeland Security alleged the man approached officers with a gun.
Gov. Tim Walz pushes for state investigation, will speak at 1:30 p.m.
“Let state investigators secure justice,” Walz said. “As we process the scene, stay peaceful and give them space. The State has the personnel to keep people safe – federal agents must not obstruct our ability to do so.”
Walz’s office says he will address the shooting in a news conference at 1:30 p.m. You can watch that on CBS News Minnesota and WCCO’s Youtube page.
DHS says officers attempted to disarm person, but they “violently resisted”
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has released more information Saturday morning, saying the person “violently resisted” before federal agents fired fatal shots.
McLaughlin says just after 9 a.m. DHS agents were conducting a “targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien” who she says was wanted for violent assault. That’s when a person approached Border Patrol officers with a “9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”
“The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming,” McLaughlin said. “Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.”
McLaughlin added that the person had two magazines and no ID and that it “looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
She says more information will be provided later.
Minneapolis officials later said the man was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.” The police chief says DHS has given the city very limited information about what led to the shooting.
Video of the shooting, which WCCO has reviewed, shows several federal agents surrounding a person on the ground. It appears one of the agents hits the person with a gun several times before several gunshots are heard.
“This is not OK for our city,” woman at scene of protest blasts federal agents
Joy, a 55-year-old woman from Edina, Minnesota, said she had driven up to the scene where federal agents shot and killed a man Saturday morning with her husband after watching footage of the protests on TV.
Her husband was in the crowd, protesting, while she was comforting a woman who was on the verge of a panic attack.
“I just said to her, I said: ‘We got this.’ This is when we show our resolve as a city because we’re better than this. We are under attack by this administration right now and this is not OK. It’s just not,” she told WCCO’s Frankie McLister.
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“This is not OK for our city,” she said, adding that she’d lived in the Twin Cities area for a combined 21 years. “You know, I believe that the Twin Cities represents the best of America.”
Minnesota State Patrol declares “unlawful assembly” near shooting
The Minnesota State Patrol has declared an “unlawful assembly” in the vicinity of a fatal shooting in south Minneapolis, as crowds continue to gather.
Community groups plan vigil, rally
A rally and a vigil is planned on East 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue South Saturday afternoon, not far from where federal agents shot and killed a person.
The vigil was originally scheduled for 1 p.m., but has since been postponed.
Hennepin County attorney says agency is coordinating with BCA
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty released a statement on Saturday morning following the fatal shooting by federal agents.
Moriarty says the county is working with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to “coordinate a state response.”
“The scene must be secured by local law enforcement for the collection and preservation of evidence. We expect the federal government to allow the BCA to process the scene,” Moriarty said.
WCCO reporters confirm chemical irritants deployed
WCCO reporters Frankie McLister and Adam Duxter are on the scene along Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis and confirm that chemical irritant has been deployed as outraged crowds gather on the scene, some carrying signs and at least one other carrying an American flag hung upside down in the signal for extreme distress.
Video shows scuffle, apparent gunshots
WCCO has reviewed apparent video of Saturday’s shooting.
The video, which WCCO is working to verify, shows several federal agents scuffling with someone in the street, followed by the sound of several gunshots before the agents scatter.
Mayor, police chief to speak at news conference
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara plan to speak about Saturday’s killing at a news conference.
A release from the city said the mayor is “demanding that ICE leave the city and state immediately.”
The news conference is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. You can watch it live on CBS News Minnesota or the WCCO YouTube page.
Gov. Walz, Sens. Klobuchar and Smith denounce ICE presence in Minnesota
Minnesota officials issued statements in the immediate aftermath of another apparent shooting by federal immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis Saturday morning.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
There has been another shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis and I am working to get more information. I will update as soon as possible. To the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress who have stood silent: Get ICE out of our state NOW.
Exact numbers are not known, but organizers expected 50,000 people to attend the march, which started near U.S. Bank Stadium and ended with a rally at Target Center.
Demonstrators participate in a rally and march during an “ICE Out” day of protest on January 23, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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A woman attending the protest told WCCO she’s a teacher who was showing up for her students.
“I’m a high school teacher. They’re scared. They are scared to wait at the bus. They are scared for their friends. Children of color are scared to be out on the streets and in their cars. They’ve been cornered. They’ve been detained. They’ve been questioned. Their families have been detained. They’re scared for their lives. They’re scared for their families,” the woman said.
Organizers called for a general strike on Friday, as well, urging Minnesotans to abstain from school, work and shopping to demonstrate against the federal presence in the state.
Some things hit differently when the violence comes to your own streets—and Minneapolis is feeling it again. On Saturday, federal officers, including ICE, were back in the spotlight after a man was shot and killed. Now, outrage is sparking as the city still reels from another deadly federal shooting just weeks earlier. The air is seemingly thick with tension, anger, and questions that still haven’t been fully answered.
According to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the 51-year-old man who was shot died amid the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown. Details around the shooting are still emerging. Nonetheless, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the person had a firearm with two magazines. DHS also released a photo of the handgun they say was recovered from the scene, though protesters say that doesn’t justify what happened.
Protesters Clash With ICE Near Renee Good Site
The location couldn’t have been more charged: just over a mile from where Renee Good, 37, was killed by an ICE officer on January 7. After the shooting, hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets, screaming at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and chanting “ICE out now.” One officer reportedly mocked the crowd, walking away with a dismissive “Boo hoo,” while others shoved protesters into vehicles. People even dragged dumpsters into streets to block traffic, showing the depth of the city’s frustration.
“They’re killing my neighbors!” shouted local resident Josh Koskie, capturing the anger felt by so many in the crowd. Federal agents responded with batons and flash bangs, escalating an already tense situation. Walz, a Democrat, called for an immediate halt to the operation. He also urged President Trump to withdraw what the Department of Homeland Security has described as its largest-ever immigration enforcement mission.
City Tensions Rise After Back-To-Back ICE Tragedies
The shooting came a day after thousands braved freezing temperatures to protest federal immigration enforcement, demanding that law enforcement leave the city. As Minneapolis continues to wrestle with back-to-back tragedies involving ICE, the tension is palpable. And, many are left asking what comes next for a city caught in the crosshairs of federal action and community outrage.
A man is dead after a shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday involving federal immigration agents from Customs and Border Protection, officials said.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news briefing that the man was 37-year-old American citizen who lived in Minneapolis.
Two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News that the man had a firearm and two magazines.
O’Hara said police believe he was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. He did not identify the man but said his only previous interaction with law enforcement was traffic violations.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that officers were conducting a “targeted operation against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault” when “an individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.” McLaughlin said the officers attempted to disarm the subject but the person “violently resisted.” McLaughlin said an agent fired “defensive shots” because he feared “for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers.”
First aid was rendered, but the man died, officials said. McLaughlin said he was pronounced dead at the scene, while O’Hara said he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
McLaughlin said the person had no identification and said it looked “like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
Video footage verified by CBS News shows an altercation between several officers and a person on the ground before shots are heard.
O’Hara said that Minneapolis police have not been provided with “any public safety statement around the incident, what happened,” by federal agents.
“We do not know what happened prior to the recording,” O’Hara said. The police chief said the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state’s criminal investigative bureau, were on the scene.
The Minneapolis Police Department said the shooting took place near Nicollet Avenue and 26th Street. Police urged people to avoid the area. Video footage from CBS Minnesota station WCCO showed standoffs between protesters and federal officers. Airborne chemical irritants were being discharged, and whistling and shouting were audible on the video. Protesters were also seen setting up barricades of trash cans. One person told the station they wanted to keep ICE out of their community.
Law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly. McLaughlin referred to protesters as “rioters.”
During his remarks, O’Hara called for calm.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who also spoke at the news conference with O’Hara, called for an end to the federal operation in Minnesota.
“I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death,” said Frey. “How many more residents, how many more Americans, need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values? How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city?”
Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino was expected to hold a separate news conference shortly.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said earlier that he had spoken to the White House about the shooting.
“Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation,” Walz said on social media. “Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota.”
A federal appellate court ruled on Friday that the Justice Department has established probable cause to charge five people, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon, in connection with an anti-ICE protest inside a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, but it refused to order a lower court judge to sign the arrest warrants being sought by prosecutors, according to court filings and multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which was unsealed Saturday, came about after the Justice Department asked the appellate court to compel the U.S. District Court in Minnesota to sign five arrest warrants over civil rights charges alleging the defendants were unlawfully interfering with the churchgoers’ constitutionally-protected freedom to practice religion.
The ruling made public on Saturday did not identify the names of the five defendants for whom the Justice Department is seeking arrest warrants, but multiple sources confirmed to CBS that Lemon is one of them.
A spokesperson for Lemon had no immediate comment on the ruling.
CBS News reported on Thursday that Magistrate Judge Doug Micko had refused to sign an arrest warrant for Lemon, who attended the protest at the church and interviewed the pastor.
Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said Thursday that the magistrate’s actions “confirm the nature of Don’s First Amendment protected work this weekend in Minnesota as a reporter,” and slammed the Justice Department for what he called “a stunning and troubling effort to silence and punish a journalist for doing his job.”
Three people so far have been charged in connection with the protest on Sunday, when demonstrators entered St. Paul’s Cities Church after discovering that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official appeared to be one of the pastors at the church.
The criminal compliant shows that several defendants were also charged, but their names are redacted after the magistrate declined to sign the arrest warrants over concerns about a lack of probable cause.
Micko also separately declined to approve some of the charges for the three defendants who were arrested, also citing a lack of probable cause.
In court filings to the Eighth Circuit, Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota said that Micko only found probable cause on three of the eight arrest warrants presented to him by the department on Jan. 20. When he declined to sign the other five, Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen personally called the court and demanded that his decision be reviewed by a district court judge.
The matter was ultimately assigned to Schiltz.
“What the U.S. Attorney requested is unheard of in our district,” he wrote. He told the department he needed more time to confer with other judges because it was such an unusual demand, and it would normally be addressed by the Justice Department either re-submitting an improved affidavit with the criminal complaint, or by seeking a grand jury indictment.
Although he told the department he would render a decision by Tuesday, the department claimed that was too late. Citing national security concerns, he said the Justice Department claimed that getting the five warrants signed was an emergency, and if he did not act urgently, then “copycats will invade churches and synagogues” this weekend. He said the department claimed he must accept their national security concerns as true “because they said it, and they are the government.”
He added that he disagrees with their claims, noting that the worst behavior alleged against the protestors is that they were “yelling horrible things.”
“None committed any acts of violence,” he wrote. “There is absolutely no emergency.”
In its opinion, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said that while they believe the department has established probable cause to justify the arrests, they did not believe the Justice Department’s claim that it “has no other adequate means of obtaining the requested relief.”
It is not immediately clear what the Justice Department will do next. It could draft new affidavits in support of the charges and re-present them to a magistrate judge, or it could also potentially seek grand jury indictments instead.
A man who was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis Saturday was an Intensive Care Unit nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital, family members have confirmed. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old, Illinois-born US citizen, was a Boy Scout who grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, his father, Michael Pretti told the Associated Press. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street,” the senior Pretti said. “He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
According to local broadcast station KTTC, Pretti was shot at around 9 a.m. local time in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis. Video of the incident (warning: the video is graphic) shows a man being wrestled to the ground by a crowd of masked men in tactical gear. At least one of the men appear to shoot the man once he was on the ground.
Via X, the Department of Homeland Security claims that the man had “a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and “two magazines” in his possession. “Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots,” the DHS said of the incident.
Minnesota is an open carry state, which means that a properly permitted person is allowed to have a visible firearm in their possession in most public places. According to Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara, Pretti was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.” According to the AP, he had no history of criminal activity.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a lobbying group that opposes gun restrictions, has issued a statement critical of the DHS’s characterization of the shooting victim. “Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms — including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights,” chair Bryan Strawser said. “These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed, and they must be respected and protected at all times.”
At a news conference Saturday afternoon, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took issue with the DHS account of the homicide. “Thank God we have video because, according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took on an onslaught of a battalion against them or something,” Walz said. “It’s nonsense, people. It is nonsense, and it’s lies … The American public knows, and this needs to be the event that says enough.”
As of 4 p.m. local time, protestors have continued to gather in the area to protest today’s homicide, which is the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in recent weeks. On January 7, Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent while seated in her SUV; on January 15 agents shot a man in the leg, reportedly after a car chase.
Complicating the issue are federal officials that are reportedly blocking a local investigation into the slaying. Speaking with CNN, O’Hara says that “federal officials [have] attempted to prevent local police from accessing the scene.” Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans confirmed the conflict between agencies, saying that even with a search warrant, federal officials denied them access, and has refused to provide investigators with the names of the federal agents involved in the shooting.
“I attempted to contact the individual that I was told was the overall commander at the scene, and I have not received a call back from them,” Evans said at a Saturday news conference.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said federal agents shot another person in Minnesota Saturday morning.
“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning,” Walz wrote on social media. “Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
Minneapolis city officials said they were aware of a reported shooting at Nicollet Avenue and 27th Street on the south side. Federal agents and protesters are clashing in the area.
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“We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area,” a social media statement from the city read.
St. Paul, Minnesota — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison accused the Trump administration of turning immigration enforcement into “politics and retribution,” describing what he called a “surge” of federal agents in the Twin Cities as a constitutional crisis, and said he has seen “no evidence” of a federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month.
“In fact, I have evidence to the contrary that the federal government is investigating the death of Renee Good at all,” Ellison told CBS News in an interview Friday.
He added, “Todd Blanche, who is the No. 2 at DOJ, said they’re not investigating.”
At the same time, Minnesota authorities, Ellison said, are seeking a “full, fair and joint investigation.”
“In Minnesota, if you are killed — particularly if you’re killed…in connection with an action by an official federal or state, we will investigate your death,” Ellison said.
The state agency tasked with investigating Good’s killing, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, withdrew from a joint investigation with the FBI a day after the shooting. It said in a statement at the time the agency said it had been informed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office that “the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
When asked in a Jan. 18 interview with “Face the Nation” whether the ICE officer who shot Good was under investigation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the department was “following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under ICE, and under the Department of Homeland Security, and within the administration.”
Ellison on the apprehension of 5-year-old Liam Ramos by ICE
Ellison strongly disputed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s assertions about 5-year-old Liam Ramos, who was taken into ICE custody outside his home. Ramos’ image has been widely circulated across the news and social media in a photo that shows him wearing a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack. DHS said the boy had been “abandoned.”
“I don’t buy that at all. In fact, there are very credible people who know Liam who refute that. I believe them over ICE,” Ellison said, calling DHS’ claim and subsequent treatment of Ramos “another example of atrocity” tied to the deportation effort DHS has dubbed “Operation Metro Surge.”
“That is morally repugnant and nothing the federal government should ever be associated with,” Ellison said.
Suing to stop DHS’ warrantless arrests in Minnesota
Ellison’s office and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop what they allege are unlawful tactics, framing the surge as a planned deployment targeting Minnesota, not a routine enforcement action. He argued the operation has been fueled by President Trump’s anger over losing the 2020 presidential election.
“Mr. Trump said ‘retribution.’ He said he won Minnesota three times and that leaders here wrongfully denied him. So he’s mad at us,” Ellison said. Asked whether the ICE operation is about politics, rather than law enforcement, he replied, “It’s 100% about politics and retribution.”
DHS alleges leaders in Minnesota “created disorder” by failing to cooperate with federal law enforcement. Ellison called this “a false statement” and said planning for the surge of federal law enforcement had long been underway. He said he believes U.S. officials are shifting their rationale now because public opinion is turning against the operation.
At the center of the lawsuit, Ellison said, are accusations of warrantless arrests without individualized assessment — including alleged civil immigration arrests without probable cause — along with racial profiling and what he described as excessive detention.
DHS has claimed that there are a few arrest videos that were taken out of context.
“Yeah, well, they’re going to have to defend their position in court, because that’s not true,” Ellison replied.
If he’s successful in obtaining an injunction blocking the DHS operation in Minnesota, it’s not clear whether the state could enforce it — or that it would survive appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ellison acknowledged that uncertainty but said inaction was not an option.
“The only alternative is to do nothing and hope for the best,” he said. “We have to do all that is in our power to insist that the federal government obey the law.”
Ellison said the DHS surge is imposing significant costs on state and local governments, with “hundreds of thousands of dollars” spent daily on crowd control, overtime and emergency response.
He also described a stream of injury complaints tied to pepper spray, tear gas and “less lethal munitions,” adding that “literally dozens every day” are making reports, while also emphasizing the harms of what he called unlawful detention and imprisonment.
And pressed on whether the state would subpoena federal agents in its civil case to access evidence in the Good case, Ellison said legal and ethical constraints govern the boundary between civil litigation and criminal investigations, but he did not rule it out.
“We’re going to do what is legal and ethical,” he said.
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ICE agents have seen their authority expanded — a May memo that was recently disclosed by whistleblowers said agents are authorized to use force to enter homes without a judicial warrant. Ellison called the policy “unconstitutional” and said he’s heard reports it’s being used in Minnesota. He signaled the state would challenge such actions.
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DHS has said that Minnesota is not cooperating with ICE detainers — requests to hold detainees for an additional 48 hours so they can be turned over to ICE custody — or other requests for assistance. Ellison counters that immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility — not the state’s — and while Minnesota is not a sanctuary state, state laws and court orders sometimes prevent the state from assisting ICE because it cannot hold criminals beyond their sentence.
For instance, he said that if an individual sought by the federal government is arrested for driving under the influence, “our courts don’t have the legal authority to hold them once the court has said they need — they are to be released.”
He indicated that the state is following its laws as they’re written: “They’re asking us to join them in breaking the law, and we can’t do that. We believe in upholding the law.”
But cooperation with ICE detainers is uneven in Minnesota. In Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is located, the sheriff told CBS News that authorities do not notify ICE when detainees are released back into the community. The Department of Corrections, however, does notify ICE.
DHS says that if every county in the state coordinated with ICE, federal agents could go home and ICE would not continue to conduct raids in Minnesota.
“They’re saying, ‘Oh, well, if you only would tell us, do our job for us, then we could go home.’ No, you didn’t,” Ellison said. He added, “ICE needs to do its job that it is paid to do, and it has a massive budget to do.”
“Minnesota is not a sanctuary state,” he told CBS News. “We don’t do the federal government’s job, but we don’t in any way obstruct them from doing their job.”
He suggested his state is at the center of a collision between politics and constitutional rights and warned that “the only way to get along” with the administration is to “abandon constitutional rights.”
“We must insist upon our First Amendment right to vote for whoever we please and not be persecuted,” he said. “We must insist on the Fourth Amendment protection to be free of unreasonable search and seizure.”
An internal U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement memo from a whistleblower and obtained by the Associated Press that authorizes officers to enter homes without judicial warrants is raising concerns among legal scholars who say the policy is a clear violation of the Constitution.
The directive from last May states that while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had not historically relied on administrative warrants to arrest immigrants subject to final orders of removal at their homes, “the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose.”
Administrative warrants are signed by immigration officials, not judges.
The previously undisclosed memo comes as Operation Metro Surge continues in Minnesota. Authorities call it the largest immigration operation ever in Minnesota with more than 3,000 federal immigration agents assigned to the state. The operation has sparked clashes between ICE and protestors, leading to several violent encounters including the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE officer on Jan. 7.
Agents on Jan. 11 forcibly entered the home of a Liberian citizen living in Minneapolis to arrest him without a judicial warrant, a federal judge said. Garrison Gibson, the man detained, was in the country legally under terms that he met regularly with immigration authorities, according to the judge’s order.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan said Gibson’s arrest violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizures.
“To arrest him, respondents forcibly entered [his] home without his consent and without a judicial warrant,” Bryan wrote.
That law enforcement would need such a warrant approved by a judge in order to enter a home is well-established legal precedent reiterated by the courts time and again, constitutional experts told WCCO news.
Emmanuel Mauleón, associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota who specializes in the Fourth Amendment, said that administrative warrants authorize arrests, but that does not mean those arrests can happen inside a person’s residence without their consent to enter.
“This has been long-standing Fourth Amendment interpretation. There has been no U.S. Supreme Court case ever that has found that an administrative warrant meets this bar,” Mauleón said. “What I’ll say is the Fourth Amendment probable cause requirement is not a high bar, so that the idea that they can’t even meet that is deeply troubling. Or the idea that they’re not going to go about the process of seeking a warrant is deeply troubling.”
Jimmy Percival, general counsel for DHS, in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal, defended the policy and said it was both reasonable and lawful.
“While administrative warrants may satisfy the Fourth Amendment for any arrest of an illegal alien, ICE currently uses these warrants to enter an illegal alien’s residence only when the alien has received a final order of removal from an immigration judge,” Percival wrote. “That means the alien has already seen a judge, presented his case, received due process, and been ordered removed from the country.”
Mauleón disputed that characterization, again emphasizing that administrative warrants authorizing arrests are not the same as “entry into a constitutionally protected space.”
“The best parallel that I could suggest is you could imagine that a police officer is conducting an investigation or wants to arrest somebody, and instead of going to a judge and saying, ‘Hey, this is the evidence that I have, do I have probable cause to search their home?’ They just go to their typewriter and type up a sheet of paper that says, ‘I have a warrant to search their home.’ That’s essentially what DHS is doing,” Mauleón said.
Vice President JD Vance during a visit to Minneapolis on Thursday was asked if he thought the ICE policy violates the Fourth Amendment. He did not directly say if he thought so, but conceded courts could disagree with that policy and vowed to follow an order if they did.
“Our understanding is that you can enforce the immigration laws of the country under an administrative order if you have an administrative warrant. That’s what we think. That’s our understanding of the law. That’s our best faith attempt to understand the law,” Vance told reporters. “Again, this is something courts will weigh in on. I won’t speak to that, but yes, most immigration law in our country is not done through the criminal system with the judge. It’s done through the administrative law system.”
David Schultz, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas and political science professor at Hamline University who focuses on the Constitution, called requiring judicial warrants before entering a home an “incredibly well-established principle of American law” that dates back to the country’s founding.
“There really is no debate on this one among legal scholars that an administrative warrant gives you no authority to enter houses at all,” Schultz said.
A marching protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis Friday afternoon happened as a widespread work stoppage across Minnesota, as organizers called for a day of no work, no school and no shopping.
An estimated 300 businesses closed for the day to send a message calling for ICE to leave the state. Some, however, chose to keep their doors open — not for business, but for community.
At The Lotus Restaurant, the sign outside Friday read “closed,” but inside the lights were on and free food was being served.
“We figured, you know, we open the doors and serve free food to the community today. Closing is one thing, but we wanted to make an impact, and we figured what better way to do that than to give people a warm bowl of soup,” Yoom Nguyen, who runs the restaurant, said.
Nguyen said subzero temperatures brought many people inside for warmth, with most stopping in before heading to rallies supporting immigrants and protesting ICE.
“It’s something that we have to do to be here to protect each other, protect immigrants and to protect this community,” said Rabbi David Cooper, who traveled from Oakland, California, to join hundreds of faith leaders participating in the protests.
For Nguyen, the decision to open the restaurant was not political.
“It just feels right,” Nguyen said. “It’s not about politics for us, it’s just feels right. This is what we are supposed to do. This is like our calling, I feel like, (to) help the community.”
Nguyen said offering food and warmth felt more meaningful than staying home with the restaurant closed.
“This is not about money for us,” Nguyen said. “We’ve been here since 1984. This community embraced our family when we were going through tough times, and (we) feel it’s our turn to return that favor, bring some hope and some joy and some warmth to people.”
The Lotus was not alone. The coffee shop Pilllar Forum also closed its sales for the day but kept its doors open to provide free coffee and a warm place to gather. Both businesses said the goal was to bring people together.
“We are nothing without this community,” Nguyen said. “We wouldn’t be The Lotus without them.”
5-year-old taken into ICE custody has immigration case, preventing deportation
The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement alongside his father in the Minneapolis area earlier this week has an active and pending case in immigration court and cannot be legally deported yet, according to government records reviewed by CBS News.
The ICE operation that led Liam Adrian Conejo Ramos and his father to be taken into government custody, captured on videos and photos that have gone viral, has garnered national attention and raised questions about who exactly the Trump administration is targeting in its mass deportation campaign.
Justice Department records reviewed by CBS News indicate Liam and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Ramos, have immigration court cases listed as “pending.” The records by the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review do not list any deportation orders in either case, indicating that an immigration judge still must consider Liam and his father’s claims before any deportation attempt. The information says the family’s immigration court case was docketed on Dec. 17, 2024.
Hennepin County attorney says ICE agents aren’t immune to Minnesota law
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that there is “no absolute immunity” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who violate Minnesota law.
Moriarty shared the message in a short video posted on YouTube Friday afternoon.
“The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution does not erase state criminal law,” she said. “State and local law enforcement still have jurisdiction to conduct investigations into potential criminal offenses by any federal agent, just as they would any other person who breaks Minnesota criminal law.”
Moriarty added that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the ICE shooting that happened in north Minneapolis on Jan. 14. Three U.S. officials told CBS News that an agent shot a man after allegedly being attacked by men with shovels during an arrest operation.
“When that investigation is submitted to our office, we will review it for potential charging,” Moriarty said.
DHS confirms the detention of 2-year-old in south Minneapolis
A 2-year-old named Chloe was detained with her father as they drove home from a grocery store in South Minneapolis on Thursday, according to a benefit page created by Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez.
Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Border Patrol arrested Elvis Tipan Echeverria of Ecuador and that the toddler’s mother refused to take her so she was reunited with her father at a federal detention facility.
According to an emergency petition filed in federal court, a district judge granted an emergency injunction ordering Chloe’s release into the custody of her lawyer. The child, a citizen of Ecuador who was brought to Minneapolis as a newborn, has a pending asylum application and is not subject to a final order of removal.
Photos show scope of protests in downtown Minneapolis
Crowds continue to grow in number in downtown Minneapolis Friday afternoon as protesters take to the streets to demand ICE forces withdraw from the Twin Cities metro area and Greater Minnesota.
Demonstrators participate in a rally and march during an “ICE Out” day of protest. Community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions have urged Minnesotans to participate in what they are calling a “day of action” as hundreds of local businesses are expected to close during a statewide general strike held in protest against immigration enforcement operations in the region.
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Demonstrators participate in a rally and march during an “ICE Out” day of protest on January 23.
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2 activists arrested in protest at St. Paul church released
Two activists arrested in connection to a protest at a church where the leader of a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office serves as a pastor were released from custody on Friday afternoon.
The protest happened Sunday, as a group joined the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, before chanting “ICE out” and “justice for Renee Good.”
Former Twin Cities NAACP president Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul School Board member Chauntyll Louisa Allen and William Kelly were arrested Thursday, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
CBS News learned that Levy Armstrong and Allen were released from law enforcement custody at the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minnesota, on Friday.
It’s unknown whether officials have ordered Kelly’s release.
Anti-ICE protest marches through downtown Minneapolis
Demonstrators are now marching through downtown Minneapolis, protesting the surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.
The march is heading from The Commons near U.S. Bank Stadium and will conclude at Target Center, where a rally will be held inside.
WCCO’s Frankie McLister is following the march and will have more on the rally later.
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Clergy members arrested at MSP while protesting ICE in Minneapolis
Dozens of faith leaders were arrested while protesting at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Friday, organizers say, as part of an effort to call for an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the area.
The protesters were calling on airlines, particularly Delta and Signature Aviation, to “stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state.”
Dispersal order issued at Whipple building for “unlawful protest,” sheriff’s office says
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says it issued dispersal orders at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Friday afternoon for what it called an “unlawful protest” in the area.
Deputies for the “last few hours” were asking protesters to unblock an access road, though the group “was clear” they would not move, according to the sheriff’s office.
Ice chunks have been thrown at “multiple vehicles,” leading to broken windows, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies at the federal building have since given three dispersal orders.
“Individuals who do not comply with orders and those who continue unlawful behavior have been and will continue to be arrested,” the sheriff’s office said. “Please avoid the area.”
The Minnesota State Patrol said it’s responding to the facility and said “arrests will be made as necessary to address unlawful behavior and maintain public safety.”
The Whipple building holds the region’s federal immigration court.
Man ICE was targeting when detaining man in his underwear was already in custody, DOC says
ChongLy Scott Thao says ICE burst into his home on Sunday without a warrant. Videos of the arrest quickly spread on social media.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says they were looking for two men accused of sex crimes, one of which was Lue Moua. The DHS earlier told the public Moua was at large, but MN DOC says that Moua has been in prison since 2024 on a kidnapping charge. Officials with the state’s corrections department say that ICE should have known that Moua was being held.
According to DOC records, Moua is currently scheduled for release in January 2027, and has an active ICE detainer. DHS officials sought to blame the apparent confusion on the actions of Minnesota officials.
Minnesota secretary of state calls video of ICE detaining child “horrifying and shameful”
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon shared a video on social media showing an ICE agent chasing and detaining a child, calling it “a cruel disgrace.”
The Associated Press independently verified the video, taken by Minneapolis resident Skylar Fehlen, who told the AP the teenager was in a car that hit a tree before the foot chase.
Fehlen said the teen was yelling for help before the ICE agent tackled and arrested him.
“ICE agents in Minneapolis chase, tackle, and handcuff a child in the freezing cold and snow while he yells ‘I’m legal! I’m legal!’” Simon wrote on X. “How does this make us safer? How does this target ‘the worst of the worst?’ Horrifying and shameful.”
Renee Good’s independent autopsy says she was shot 3 times
An independent autopsy showed that Renee Good was shot three times by an ICE officer earlier this month — in the forearm, breast and head.
Good’s family requested the independent autopsy, according to their attorneys.
The preliminary conclusions indicated that two of the gunshots — the forearm and breast wounds — were not immediately life-threatening. The forearm wound caused soft tissue hemorrhage while the one on her right breast didn’t penetrate any major organs.
A third gunshot wound entered the left side of her head and exited the right side, the autopsy concluded. There was also a fourth wound, which was a graze “consistent with a firearm injury” but did not penetrate her body.
“We believe the evidence we are gathering and will continue to gather in our investigation will suffice to prove our case. The video evidence depicting the events of January 7, 2026, is clear, particularly when viewed through the standards of reasonable policing and totality of circumstances. Additionally, our legal team will continue its unwavering and proactive advocacy for Renee’s life and her family,” said Antonio Romanucci, the lead attorney on the case.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner determined that Good’s manner of death was a homicide, caused by multiple gunshot wounds.
Mayor Frey responds to federal insinuations that local law enforcement isn’t cooperating with ICE
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spoke out on insinuations shared Thursday by Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino that local law enforcement representatives are deliberately not cooperating with federal forces.
“If this was about safety, then there would be a whole lot of opportunity to partner and do it. But this is not about safety. It’s not even about immigration. What we are seeing right now is that this is political retribution. It’s about causing chaos on our streets,” Frey told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “(We) are getting targeted for doing one of the most basic things that we are required to perform as public servants. And for me, that’s speaking on behalf of my constituents. That is a responsibility that I have, an obligation that I have that is written into our city charter.”
Frey also responded to reporting about an obtained internal ICE memo, which suggests immigration agents have been entering people’s homes without a warrant and empowers them to do so. While Frey said he didn’t have enough information on that reporting to address it specifically, asked if he would agree that an administrative warrant is enough to warrant entering private residences, Frey said, “I’d say that it isn’t.”
“The guidance that we have given to people in the city of Minneapolis in the Know Your Rights campaign that we are running. And what we are telling people is that if they are going to enter a home — a private residence, what they need is a judicial warrant, which is a warrant that is signed by a judge — and the administrative warrant is not enough,” Frey said.
Northeast Minneapolis coffee shop offering warm space for general strike participants on Friday
Many businesses will close their doors in protest Friday, but one business is doing much more than just shutting down to protest ICE.
Sitting in the heart of northeast Minneapolis’s business district, Pillar Forum Cafe and Commodities has become a hub for people opposing ICE.
On Friday, Pillar Forum will join hundreds of others taking part in a “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom,” with its own take.
Vance acknowledges Minnesota Department of Corrections cooperating with ICE
In his visit to Minnesota, Vance appeared to acknowledge that the Minnesota Department of Corrections, overseen by Gov. Tim Walz, was cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Look, if I was going to list the five agencies locally and statewide I’m most worried about, I wouldn’t put the Department of Corrections on that list,” Vance said in a news conference when asked by CBS News if the state was cooperating. “I think that while there are certain things we’d like to see more from them, they’ve hardly been the worst offenders.”
Minneapolis pastor asks for groceries for congregation, and thousands come to help
Pastor Sergio Amezcua, who serves the congregation of Dios Habla Hoy, put out a call on social media for help for his community after ICE agents surged into Minnesota.
Thousands of people responded asking for help — and thousands more stepped up to provide it.
A 33-year-old man is accused of having a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit hours after a crash involving a train in Minneapolis last October, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Police say officers responded to the collision near Central Avenue Northeast and Columbia Parkway around 2:32 a.m. They saw a freight train traveling across the tracks, and two heavily damaged vehicles — a Cadillac Escalade and Toyota Rav4 — the court documents filed with Hennepin County said.
The Cadillac was stopped at the train crossing when the Toyota, later identified as being driven by the Columbia Heights, Minnesota, man, rear-ended it at high speed, according to the complaint. The impact resulted in both SUVs hitting the passing train.
Court documents said the driver of the Cadillac was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. A passenger of the same vehicle reported having glass in her face and mouth.
Paramedics at the scene said the man, who sustained serious injuries, appeared intoxicated and an officer saw he had bloodshot eyes and “different sized pupils,” according to the complaint.
The man was taken to the hospital where a blood draw, administered around four hours after the collision, showed he had a blood alcohol concentration of .223, court documents said.
The speedometer of the Toyota was “locked” at 68-69 mph after the crash, and the Cadillac driver estimated the man was driving between 85 and 90 mph before the incident, the complaint said. The posted speed limit at the scene is 30 mph.
According to court documents, the man was not in custody on Wednesday.
