US EditionPardoned Jan. 6 Rioter's Pro-ICE Rally Chased Off in Minneapolis
Jake Lang led a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rally heavily outnumbered by counterprotesters amid tensions after a fatal ICE shooting, with Lang alleging injury during clashes.
- On Jan. 17, Jake Lang led a pro-ICE, anti-Islam rally outside Minneapolis City Hall that was cut short after counterprotesters overwhelmed and chased his group off the street, with Lang claiming he was stabbed and appearing bloodied as he left.
- Amid a federal enforcement surge, more than 2,000 federal officers were deployed across the Twin Cities, intensifying community anger after Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, was shot by an ICE officer on January 7.
- During the confrontation, counterprotesters pelted Lang's group with water balloons and snowballs in near-zero degrees Fahrenheit, then pulled Lang off a Minneapolis City Hall ledge and followed him four blocks to a hotel where he retreated bleeding.
- State officials mobilized the Minnesota National Guard at Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota's direction and a federal judge limited immigration agents' use of force Friday, while state officials sued the Trump administration last week.
- Beyond the downtown clash, the demonstrations intensified local-federal disputes with lawsuits and subpoenas involving Minneapolis's Somali American community and state officials.
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Opposition to ICE grows following Minneapolis killing
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing legal pushback and growing protests after high-profile shootings. An ICE agent shot a Minneapolis woman dead this month, in what the White House called self-defense and local officials called murder. Another two people were wounded a day later. Demonstrations have led to clashes, and 1,500 troops are on standby. A federal judge ordered the agency to pare back crowd control tactics, banning it from…
In the United States, tension does not fall back into the city of Minneapolis a week after the death of a woman shot dead by an ICE agent, the famous federal immigration police. Some of the population rebelled against its members and their very controversial technique of arrest. Donald Trump threatened to send the army and declare a state of emergency if the local authorities did not take the necessary steps to calm the demonstrators. (Internati…
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