A federal judge is scheduled to hold a hearing this morning on Minnesota officials’ lawsuit against the ICE surge in the Twin Cities.
It has been one week since Minneapolis resident Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, and activists and law enforcement remain on high alert.
Twin Cities students are expected to walk out of school on Wednesday afternoon and march to the state Capitol in St. Paul.
On Tuesday night, a crowd of roughly 1,000 demonstrators protested outside the Graduate hotel on the University of Minnesota campus where immigration enforcement agents were believed to be staying. While there didn’t appear to be arrests, graffiti was sprayed on the hotel’s entrance and at least one broken window was reported.
Several leaders in Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned Tuesday in protest of directives from the federal government in the wake of Good’s death, according to sources familiar with the decision.
Minnesota streets have been flooded with officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection arms in recent days, and confrontations with protesters have escalated.
Here’s what else you need to know:
- Lead fraud prosecutor Joe Thompson and others resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota.
- Minnesota and city officials sued the Trump administration over the ICE surge in the state.
- DHS has said “Operation Metro Surge” has resulted in more than 2,000 arrests in Minnesota since December, though the agency has not released all the names of those detained.
- DHS reiterated its claim that ICE agent Jonathan Ross acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Renee Good and that federal authorities were “not allowing unjust behavior and assaults against them to stop them.”
- President Trump vowed “reckoning” and “retribution” in Minnesota in a new social media post.
We’re following reports of individual incidents, as well as providing broader context and stories about the enforcement effort. Email tips to whistleblower@startribune.com.
