A Federal Agent Shot Another Person in Minneapolis. Then Trump Threatened the Insurrection Act. |
Federal agents stand guard as demonstrators and community members gather near the scene where federal agents shot a man during an immigration raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday.Jim Vondruska/NurPhoto/AP
The Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants in Minneapolis—and those who seek to help them—continued to intensify Wednesday night and into Thursday after a federal agent shot another person during an immigration operation.
President Donald Trump, in a Thursday morning Truth social post, threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act—a centuries-old law that allows the president to deploy the US military domestically.
The move comes after another chaotic night in Minneapolis during which a federal agent shot a man in the leg, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The City of Minneapolis said that the man was taken to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury.
According to DHS, the man was a Venezuelan national........