"The FBI is asking agents across the US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation. The bureau in recent days sent messages to agents nationwide seeking volunteers to temporarily transfer to the city, the people said. The messages didn't specifically reference the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests that have escalated in the city and didn't detail the assignment, the people said."
"The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have already been increasing their presence in Minneapolis. The city has become a focal point of anti-ICE protests since an officer shot and killed a woman, Renee Good, on Jan. 7 while she was in her car. It wasn't immediately clear what the FBI would ask agents who volunteered to travel to Minneapolis to do. FBI agents have traditionally focused on national security-related tasks such as counter-terrorism, organized crime and high-profile violent crimes."
The FBI requested agents nationwide to volunteer for temporary duty in Minneapolis, sending messages that did not detail assignments or explicitly reference the anti-ICE protests. The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have increased their presence in the city after the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good, which intensified anti-ICE demonstrations. It remains unclear what roles FBI volunteers would perform; FBI agents typically handle national security matters such as counter-terrorism, organized crime and major violent crimes. FBI leadership visited Minneapolis and cited actions against violent rioters and investigations into funding networks, while a judge limited immigration-enforcement actions against peaceful protesters.
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