Cabot Phillips

Yeah, throughout the start of the week, thousands of protesters had routinely descended on immigration facilities across Minneapolis, attempting to disrupt their operations.

But things only got worse yesterday following another ICE-related shooting that we talked about yesterday.

As we reported yesterday,

an agent was attempting to detain an illegal immigrant on Wednesday when the man fled on foot.

Then, as the agent caught up to him, two more illegal immigrants emerged from a nearby apartment and began attacking him with a snow shovel and a broomstick.

The agent fired off a single shot in self-defense, striking the first man in the leg, and all three men were eventually detained.

On Thursday, the DHS confirmed that each was living here illegally, while the initial suspect had actually been arrested multiple times in the past few years by Minnesota law enforcement.

but released each time.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem released a statement calling the incident a case of quote, attempted murder.

Despite those facts though, the shooting only further enraged demonstrators across the city.

Footage from one incident showed rioters hurling fireworks at law enforcement.

Other footage showed rioters busting out the windows.

of a DHS car and eventually prying open the gun safe, seemingly making off with firearms and ammunition.

Elsewhere, videos showed rioters, again, breaking into other cars, ransacking vehicles, and then proudly displaying ICE warrants that they had taken from inside of them and other materials like laptops and briefcases and whatever else you might find in a car.

Right.

On Thursday, President Trump posted on Truth Social that, quote, "...if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, we're only trying to do their job."

I will institute the Insurrection Act.

Now, for context, the Insurrection Act is an 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military on U.S.

soil to suppress an insurrection or violent unrest in cases where the state is unable to do so.

It also applies to cases in which a state is unable or, importantly, unwilling to enforce federal law.