Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to 'put an end' to protests in Minneapolis [View all]

Source: AP

Updated 8:21 AM EST, January 15, 2026


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis.

Trump made the threat after a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. The incident further heightened the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal law to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said in social media post.

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He's been doing everything he can to justify triggering this - shooting and killing people, having thugs pepper spray and throw flash bangs at peaceful protestors, etc. And then he would probably try to have it apply nationwide. Hope Keith Ellison can get a judge moving on a TRO, quick, fast, and in a hurry.