"Donald Trump threatened in a social media post on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop protests in Minneapolis after the killing of queer woman Renee Good by ICE on January 7. ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot Good in the head after a brief exchange. Good and her wife had been observing ICE agents in their neighborhood at the time."
"Since Good's killing, thousands have taken to the streets to demand that the Trump administration remove immigration agents from the city, brought in as part of Trump's crackdown on immigration across the country and on alleged fraud in the state. It also comes a day after one federal immigration agent shot a Minneapolis man who authorities say attacked the agent with a shovel."
""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."
Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to halt protests in Minneapolis after ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot queer woman Renee Good on January 7. Ross shot Good in the head after a brief exchange while Good and her wife were observing ICE agents in their neighborhood. Thousands protested, demanding removal of immigration agents brought in as part of a broader federal crackdown and investigations into alleged state fraud. The incident followed another federal agent shooting of a Minneapolis man said to have attacked with a shovel. The Insurrection Act allows U.S. military deployment for domestic law enforcement; its most recent use was 1992.
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