Why Is There a Protest in Minneapolis?

The ICE team is a big problem in USA now, the civilians in the city of Minneapolis wanted ICE out of their city because ICE killed many innocent civilians before. On Jan 30, 2026, the civilians staged a huge protest on the street.

ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is an agency with the power to investigate, hold, and arrest people who are suspected of being in the US illegally, and they can shoot the people whom they think are trying to threaten their agents.

Most of the civilians hate ICE because they think ICE’s conduct was very cruel. “They (ICE) are tearing apart families. They say that they’re here to round up the worst of the worst, but we know with our own eyes that is absolutely not true,” said Martha Bardwell, the lead pastor at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in South Minneapolis.

Every civilian is suffering from ICE. According to the undefined, it said “Everybody is so scared… Church friends are asking me about power of attorney in case they and their husbands both get detained, and the kids are left on their own.”

From January 2025 to January 2026, ICE already removed about 540,000 people, arrested about 420,000-450,000 people, and 40 people died (32 people died in 2025, 8 people died in 2026) when they were in custody or killed by the agents.

On Jan 24, 2026, undefined was killed by ICE in Minneapolis, and he was only 37 years old, which led to the monstrous protest on Jan 30th. President Donald Trump said the agents were in self-defense because they thought he was holding a gun, but in fact, in reviewing video evidence, Reuters, the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian all concluded that he was holding a cell phone, not a gun.

As for the protest on that day, thousands of people joined the protests in Minneapolis. They raised their placards and shouted their slogans: “No school, No work, No shopping “, which means they don’t give money to the government and ICE.

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