President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to send the military to Minnesota, where residents have continued to protest after a deadly shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Last week, an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen the administration alleges was trying to use her vehicle as a weapon. On Wednesday, a Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by an ICE agent in North Minneapolis, triggering more protests in the state. In the meantime, the state’s Democratic leaders have unsuccessfully called on Trump to leave Minneapolis. Trump has instead leaned in.
“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 on Truth Social.