Gun-wielding ICE agents brush back Minneapolis agitators

Photos person emerged showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents drafting their weapons astatine agitators successful Minneapolis who allegedly were trying to obstruct their operations. 

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital successful a connection that ICE officers were successful Minneapolis connected Tuesday "conducting a targeted enforcement cognition to apprehension an Ecuadorian transgression amerciable alien antecedently charged with assault." 

"Two agitator vehicles began stalking our officers and attempted to obstruct ICE operations — a felony and a national transgression — by blocking 1 of the ICE vehicles by closing a gate. Officers reopened the gross and exited the country portion agitators attempted to adjacent the gross successful an effort to obstruct their operations," she continued. "The agitators past followed the officers arsenic they departed and made manus motions suggestive of possessing a firearm." 

"Obstructing national instrumentality enforcement is not lone unsafe but besides a transgression and a felony," McLaughlin besides said. "Because of this obstruction, this transgression amerciable alien is astatine large."

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People are approached by a national cause brandishing a firearm, for pursuing cause vehicles, connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Ryan Murphy/AP)

Several cars had followed officers done southbound Minneapolis aft determination were reports of them knocking at homes, according to The Associated Press. 

Officers aboriginal stopped their vehicles and ordered individuals to travel retired of a car at gunpoint, the AP said. 

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A fishy is detained by national agents connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn.  (Ryan Murphy/AP)

At slightest 1 idiosyncratic wearing an anti-ICE connection was handcuffed portion face-down connected the ground, it besides reported, citing a lensman astatine the scene. 

A idiosyncratic is detained by national agents connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful Minneapolis.  (Ryan Murphy/AP)

The quality bureau released an representation of 1 idiosyncratic successful handcuffs wearing a chapeau and loop that read, "F--- ICE."

People wrong a conveyance are approached by a national cause brandishing a firearm, for pursuing cause vehicles, connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (Ryan Murphy/AP)

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McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that the fishy that was being pursued during the cognition "was RELEASED into the state by the Biden medication and was issued a last bid of removal by an migration judge." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.