A destructive anti-ICE mob called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be hanged and declared that the only “good” immigration agent is a “dead one” as they turned Minneapolis into an apocalyptic wasteland overnight.
Dystopian photos show a car with smashed-in windows in the middle of the debris-filled block, covered with threatening messages scrawled in red spray paint.
The disturbing graffiti reads, “hang Kristi Noem,” “f–k ICE” and “only good agent is a dead one.”
The protesters defaced the car as angry demonstrators hurled fireworks and rocks at federal officers in a violence-plagued night that saw an illegal Venezuelan migrant shot in the leg after allegedly ambushing an agent with a shovel, the Minnesota Reformer reported.
Graffiti on the car declared the “only good agent is a dead one.” REUTERS
Demonstrators protest outside the Whipple federal building on Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Getty Images
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks to reporters after participating in a TV interview outside the White House on Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington, DC. Getty ImagesSmoke engulfed the streets, too, as law enforcement tossed tear gas canisters in an attempt to dispel the unruly crowd soon after the shooting unfolded at about 7 p.m.
A federal agent opened fire on the illegal migrant after he allegedly fled a traffic stop and then beat the “ambushed” officer with a snow shovel when he was chased down, the Department of Homeland Security said.
In the wake of the violence, President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to flood the city with military forces if lawmakers didn’t help stem the chaos.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE, 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 raged in a Truth Social post.
A federal law enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, 2026, involved an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shooting a man in the leg during an arrest, prompting a large protest in north Minneapolis, local reports say. Christian Zander/NurPhoto/ShutterstockThe rarely used law allows the president to deploy the military or federalize soldiers in a state’s National Guard to quell rebellion — despite the objections of governors.
Mayor Jacob Frey, for his part, has blamed the nearly 3,000 federal officers already deployed across the city as the reason for the disorder — including the fatal shooting of 37-year-old anti-ICE agitator Renee Nicole Good.
A man with a bicycle records the scene as he walks by rising smoke after law enforcement deployed tear gas against protesters. REUTERS
A masked person stands near a vandalized federal vehicle as tensions rise. REUTERS“The 600 police officers that we have are charged on any given day with investigating crime, stopping homicides from taking place, preventing carjackings. That’s the work of a police officer in a city,” the Democratic mayor said at a press conference late Wednesday.
“Meanwhile, we have ICE agents throughout our state who, along with Border Patrol, are creating chaos. This is not the path that we should be on right now in America.”
