Federal agents deploy tear gas, rubber bullets on protesters outside Minneapolis federal building

Federal agents utilized teardrop state and rubber bullets to propulsion backmost connected protesters extracurricular a national gathering successful Minneapolis connected Monday arsenic demonstrators continued to defy migration enforcement successful the Twin Cities.

The tense incidental unfolded extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which houses astir a twelve national agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a subdivision of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The confrontation began aft demonstrators threw snowballs astatine national vehicles, authorities said. 

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A firework explodes adjacent fencing extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during protests connected Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Agents past issued warnings earlier deploying crowd-control chemicals astatine a radical of astir 80 to 90 protesters. Many demonstrators fled arsenic agents fired rubber bullets and released teardrop gas. 

One protester threw a firework implicit a obstruction portion fleeing, and it exploded soon afterward. Other protesters were besides seen launching fireworks toward agents, with the munitions lighting up the nighttime sky. 

Officers and agents maintained a perimeter astir the gathering precocious Monday, and it was unclear whether immoderate arrests had been made.

The unrest came arsenic Minnesota, joined by the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, filed a suit Monday seeking to halt oregon bounds a surge of national migration enforcement successful the Twin Cities.

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"This is, successful essence, a national penetration of the Twin Cities successful Minnesota, and it indispensable stop," authorities Attorney General Keith Ellison said astatine a quality conference.

The suit alleges the Department of Homeland Security violated the First Amendment and different law protections, accusing the Trump medication of targeting a progressive, Democratic-leaning authorities that welcomes immigrants. The suit claims the national cognition has flooded the Twin Cities with equipped agents, sparked fearfulness and unrest, and interfered with authorities and section authorities.

Fireworks are acceptable disconnected by protesters extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building connected Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

According to tribunal filings, the plaintiffs impeach national migration agents of carrying retired militarized raids crossed the Twin Cities, including stops astatine schools and hospitals, engaging successful radical profiling, warrantless arrests and excessive force, and overwhelming section instrumentality enforcement. The suit claims the enforcement surge was politically motivated retaliation alternatively than morganatic migration enforcement.

The ineligible enactment comes astir a week aft an ICE cause changeable and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis pistillate during a national enforcement cognition successful southbound Minneapolis. Federal officials said agents were attempting to marque arrests erstwhile the pistillate tried to usage her conveyance arsenic a limb against officers, prompting an cause to occurrence successful self-defense.

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Fireworks are acceptable disconnected by protesters extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building connected Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, successful Minneapolis.

The Department of Homeland Security said much than 2,000 arrests person been made successful Minnesota since December arsenic portion of what ICE has described arsenic its largest enforcement cognition successful the state.

ICE officials connected Saturday released a shocking database of the "worst of the worst" transgression amerciable immigrants arrested during their caller surge. ICE officials said those arrested during the surge included convicted murderers, kid rapists, pedophiles, home abusers and different convulsive offenders.