The Daily Populous Monday January 12nd, 2026 morning edition
Authored by theguardian.com and submitted by JackThaBongRipper

Minneapolis protesters – already outraged by Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer – braced for a new onslaught as the Department of Homeland Security sent more agents in to the area, carried out what it called its largest enforcement operation ever.

On Sunday, Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, had pledged the agency would send “hundreds more” federal agents to the city. As door-to-door raids began, protesters screamed at heavily armed federal agents and honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt their operations in one Minneapolis neighborhood filled with single-family homes.

There was some pushing and several people were hit with chemical spray just before agents banged down the door of one home on Sunday. Agents later took one man away in handcuffs.

Across the US this weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets to express outrage over the killing of Renee Good, stopping traffic and marching en masse.

Demonstrators in Minneapolis earlier on Sunday marched toward the residential street where Renee Good, a 37-year-old American citizen and mother of three, was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday while driving away in her car.

Officials said 30 people had already been arrested during Saturday’s protests, and that one police officer was injured after a “chunk of ice was thrown”. The mayor, Jacob Frey, said the “vast majority of community members have demonstrated peacefully”.

The turnout for the Minneapolis protest, amid strong, frigid winds, highlighted the widespread fury sparked by the killing of Good, as well as other recent shootings involving federal immigration enforcement, including a shooting in Portland, Oregon by border patrol agents, that have left three other people injured this week.

More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization.

View image in fullscreen A protester holds a sign reading ‘Melt ICE’ outside the Whipple building, an ICE facility, shortly before being detained by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images

“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.

Although protests have been largely peaceful, Twin Cities officials remained anxious and prepared for things to worsen. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children or their parents might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.

Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.

Good’s death, which was caught on video from multiple angles, has energized protests in major metropolitan areas as well as smaller communities. Large groups of protesters poured into the streets of several cities on Saturday, including Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, with some actions extending into the night and continuing on Sunday.

View image in fullscreen Border patrol agents take a protester into custody on Sunday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Democratic leaders in Minnesota and Donald Trump’s administration have presented sharply contrasting versions of the shooting, which occurred shortly after approximately 2,000 federal agents were sent to the Minneapolis–St Paul region in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as its largest operation to date. Trump administration officials have accused Good without evidence of being a “domestic terrorist” and Trump said the ICE agent was “run over”, despite video clearly showing that is untrue.

A visibly impassioned Frey responded to the death earlier this week by telling ICE officers to leave the city. On Sunday, he explained to NBC’s Meet the Press that he was critical of the administration’s decision to refuse to allow Minneapolis state investigators to assist in the FBI’s investigation, accusing the Trump administration of being “so quick to jump on a narrative as opposed to the truth”.

Later on Sunday, Noem doubled down. “We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow,” she told Fox News. “There will be hundreds more in order to allow our ICE and our border patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.”

Tricia McLaughlin, the homeland security spokesperson, claimed more than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the operation began at the beginning of December.

View image in fullscreen Candles, flowers and signs are placed at a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Nicole Good and other victims of police and immigration enforcement violence outside a home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images

In Los Angeles, protesters assembled on Saturday evening outside a cluster of federal buildings downtown. Marchers moved along Alameda Street, carrying inverted American flags and homemade signs criticizing ICE.

That same street was the scene of confrontations between protesters and police in June of last year, when crowds rallied against immigration raids and Trump’s deployment of the national guard.

The Los Angeles police department later issued a dispersal order for the section of Alameda Street where demonstrators had gathered, telling protesters in a post on social media: “You must leave the area.”

Large crowds also turned out throughout California’s Bay Area, with protests reported in Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Jose and other cities across the state. In San Francisco, hundreds of protesters filled Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street around midday, between Japantown and Union Square, as passing drivers honked in support. Another group gathered at Ocean Beach to form a human banner reading “IT WAS MURDER – ICE OUT,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

About 1,000 additional demonstrators assembled in Salt Lake City, circling Washington Square Park while police halted traffic. The group later positioned themselves in front of Utah’s third district court across State Street.

“Law enforcement do not wear masks,” Sarah Buck, an organizer for the protest, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “We do need to have patience and see if an investigation takes place the way it should.”

raaoraki on January 11st, 2026 at 18:18 UTC »

Ah yes but at the same time warning the Iranian gov to not use force against its citizens, very cool

purplegladys2022 on January 11st, 2026 at 18:13 UTC »

Because that's what fascists do.

AssociateGreat2350 on January 11st, 2026 at 18:12 UTC »

The escalation has always been the point with this administration

This is all going as planned for them