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Reporting is conflicted: federal authorities say “approached” agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and distributed a photo of a firearm, while multiple bystander videos and at least one independen...
There is no credible reporting that an ICE agent shot a six‑month‑old infant; contemporary coverage instead documents that a family’s van was hit with flash‑bangs and tear gas during clashes in north ...
Official records and multiple news reports state that had no of arrests or convictions in beyond a handful of old traffic offenses, and that he held a to carry a firearm; these findings were cited by ...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers quit MPD to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the departures widely documented are fe...
Reporting shows two overlapping but distinct threads: long-term public-safety and socioeconomic challenges in Minneapolis neighborhoods with large Somali populations, notably Cedar‑Riverside, document...
Operation Creep was a multi‑agency undercover sting in Bloomington, Minnesota, that resulted in 16 arrests of men alleged to have sought sex from a decoy they believed to be a 17‑year‑old; local polic...
Public reporting shows only agency statements, court filings and news descriptions about prior and immediate injuries to the ICE agent involved in the Minneapolis shooting — there have been no indepen...
Publicly available evidence does not conclusively show that the ICE agent was struck by Renee Good’s vehicle: federal officials including DHS and some pro-agency outlets say the agent was hit and trea...
Local reporting and official statements show Minneapolis police have, on balance, tried to maintain distance from the recent surge of ICE operations while the federal government has pressed forward wi...
Reporting shows that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent did shoot a Venezuelan man in the leg during a January 2026 enforcement action in north Minneapolis, but the claim that the ...
Local and state law enforcement in Minnesota are not uniformly joining ICE operations: Minneapolis Police have publicly distanced themselves and adopted policies limiting cooperation with ICE, while a...
can technically bring criminal charges against or agents involved in the shootings, but those charges would immediately trigger a fierce legal fight over federal jurisdiction and immunity that is like...
— multiple news outlets report that the man shot and killed in during a on Jan. 24, 2026, was identified by his family as 37‑year‑old ICU nurse , and federal agents from the were involved in the shoot...
The available reporting does not establish that — the Minneapolis ICU nurse shot and killed during a operation — pointed a gun at federal agents; DHS says an agent attempted to disarm Pretti and a pis...
Tim Walz is facing bipartisan scrutiny after federal prosecutors and media reports tied more than $250 million in one child‑nutrition scheme and wider alleged abuses to nonprofits in Minnesota, with s...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that a "child kidney ring" has been exposed in Minnesota; instead the documents center on undercover operations that recovered trafficking victim...
Available public data sources list city and state crime dashboards but do not publish neighborhood crime rates explicitly tied to demographic groups; Minneapolis crime maps and Minnesota crime statist...
The fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is contested: federal officials say an agent fired after Good used her car as a weapon and tried to run over officers, while Minnesota state ...
Yes. Public records and agency releases show had officer-involved shootings recorded in 2025: the issued updates and identified officers who used force in a Minneapolis incident, city data portals lis...
Federal officials say officer had part of a finger bitten off during the chaotic protests that followed a shooting in ; the claim was publicized by DHS spokespeople and amplified across conservative a...