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Bongino Report: VINCE

What Exactly Happened In Minneapolis This Weekend? | Episode 211

26 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Monday. It's good to have you with us. We have a very big and important show ahead. What the hell just happened in Minneapolis? What is going on there? The insurrection reaches new levels.

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Chapter 2: What events led to the chaos in Minneapolis this weekend?

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We'll take you inside what's animating that communist insurgency right now and how it is placing the lives of our men and women of law enforcement on the line. There's a lot to unpack here, so we're going to do it very carefully and smartly as we always do on this program. We've got Jorge Ventura also joining us today. He's a reporter from The Daily Caller on the ground in Minneapolis.

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He was witness to the riots all weekend long. We'll get his firsthand perspective this morning.

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Chapter 3: How is the insurrection in Minnesota being organized?

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we do have a marxist communist insurgency that's been going on for some time now in minneapolis we saw it pop up a couple years ago in fact uh during the george floyd riots and uh it really has never given up it's continued to be there and now it's kicking once again into high gear uh and it's creating a lot of peril in minnesota you and i have been discussing this

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For many weeks now, unfortunately, the ongoing insurrection in Minnesota. And this weekend, it reached new levels. And before I even get into the shooting of Alex Preddy, what led to his death, why that could have all been avoided, he'd be alive today were it not for his decisions, were it not for Tim Walz's decisions, Jacob Fry's decisions.

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Before we even get there, we need to start with what the hell is going on? How is it that Alex Preddy was even standing on that city block? Why was he there in the middle of the road? Why was he a part of a group that was obstructing law enforcement? How did they even know that law enforcement would be present at that location so they could stand there to menace them? How did that all happen?

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And the answer to that question, as we begin today, is that these people are coordinating an organized criminal conspiracy against law enforcement. That's what this is. You're hearing a lot of people use words like this is a protest. It's a protest. It's not a protest if you are organizing people to obstruct federal law enforcement from enforcing federal law and the constitution.

Chapter 4: Who is Alex Preddy and what role did he play in the incident?

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He grabs his weapon and as he's walking away, it appears the gun may have discharged when he's walking away. So in the midst of people yelling, gun, gun, gun, whistles blowing, crazy chaos all around these officers, Officer walks away. It appears the gun discharges. Here's the angle. Watch this cut four. Take a look. Gray hoodie. Watch the gray hoodie. See that?

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So for those of you watching, rumble.com slash Vince, as he pulls away and the gun is sort of aimed at the ground, as that first shot is fired, you see his arm kick up, suggesting that he may have had a round discharge out of the weapon. Let's watch that one more time just so people can see it, because on first blush, if this is the first time you're seeing it, you may not detect it.

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Watch it again. And then the shots are fired. Now, remember, in the moments before that, you got all the honking, the rape whistles, guys yelling, gun, gun, gun. And then as he's pulling this gun away, so everybody's on high alert. These officers are on high alert. They've heard gun, gun, gun. This officer is able to grab the gun. This is very close and...

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Chapter 5: What were the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Alex Preddy?

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pivotal uh moments where you have a bunch of officers over the top of them clearly not all of them know that a gun's been removed from the suspect already they hear a gunshot in the midst of all of this and they believe that they're being fired upon or that an officer has made a determination that he needs to be fired upon uh and so this is a this is a crazy moment and law enforcement should not be put into these situations again the left is doing this

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So that officer starts walking away with the gun. The gun appears to discharge. Now, I am not the only one who thinks that. In fact, we just got an interview with the president of the United States last night done by the Wall Street Journal. And President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the gun in question is a, quote, dangerous and unpredictable gun.

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And I'm going to get into the details here now for a moment. Take a look at this. Trump asserted that Freddie was carrying a very dangerous gun, quote, very dangerous gun, a dangerous and unpredictable gun, adding, quote, it's a gun that goes off when people don't know it. The Wall Street Journal simply describes it as a nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun.

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Well, that's not good enough for the purposes of our review this morning, just to call it a nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun. Of course, it is a nine mil, but it's specifically a Sig Sauer P320. And that gun is at the center of a lot of concern in the gun community, and it has been for some time.

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There have been claims over the years that the P320 is guilty of uncommanded discharges or accidental discharges where you're not pulling the trigger, and yet the gun discharges anyway. Well, that would be a real problem if that's, of course, what's happening.

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And last July, an airman in the Air Force was temporarily linked to a – an airman's death was temporarily linked to a Sig Sauer M18, which is the military variant of the P320. Now, the Air Force would later discover that another airman had actually pointed the gun at him. That came out later in the year. But that did not stop the gun community from taking a very close look at the P320.

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And we have some examples of people who really know their stuff looking at the P320 and saying, hey, we've got some issues here. Famously, there's a video clip from something called the Wyoming Gun Project. It was done in July last year. This is during all of the concern over whether or not an airman had died due to an accidental discharge from a P320.

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And this gentleman tested the weapon by pinning the trigger back by just one millimeter. That is putting just one millimeter of force on the trigger, used a little screw to do it, and then jiggling the slide. In other words, the trigger hadn't even reached the trigger wall.

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If you've ever fired a gun, when you pull the trigger back, you feel the moment where it reaches its kind of peak resistance before you finally pull the trigger action all the way through. That's the trigger wall. So he pushes the trigger back by just a millimeter. Then he jiggles the slide. The end result is this video. Cut five. Watch this.

Chapter 6: How did law enforcement respond to the protests and riots?

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Quote, at some point we will leave, the president said. We've done, they've done a phenomenal job. Trump did not offer a timeframe for when the agents might depart. Asked if agents would leave soon, he praised what the administration had done already in Minnesota and said, quote, we'll leave a different group of people there for the financial fraud.

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Now, this is where I'm going to read between the lines a little bit. it sounds like president trump is working on an exit strategy for immigration enforcement in minnesota now he didn't indicate how quickly that would happen but he does say when they leave they're going to leave a different group of people there for the financial fraud and i would submit that it would be a mistake

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to pull out of immigration enforcement right now. And here's why. One, is the mission over yet? Is every violent illegal out of the state of Minnesota? Is every illegal alien taken into custody and deported? The answer to that is quite obviously, no, it's not over.

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In fact, immigration enforcement is still trying to pick people up and they're being managed and attacked by insurrectionists every time they do it.

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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the ongoing violence for local law enforcement?

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And if you decide at this moment to withdraw immigration enforcement from the state of Minnesota or the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the message that the insurrectionists get is that what they're doing works. Biting off the fingers of ICE officers works.

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Assaulting ICE officers in the middle of the street, border patrol officers, HSI officers in the middle of the street while they do their jobs works. Attacking the hotels where they're staying works. Trailing them as they go about their business and then assaulting them when they get out of their vehicles works.

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That's the message if immigration enforcement is removed right now from the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota.

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that can't be the message the message has to be the one that got president trump elected over and over and over again law and order restore order to a great american state fight back against the insurgency defeat the leftists who are breaking the law in the service of helping criminals evade capture

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This is why I've been calling so frequently and why, by the way, I think most of this audience has been calling so frequently for the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

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Send in the military, bring about a peace, enforce local laws that are not at all being enforced by the local police department, not at all being supported by the governor of the state, not at all being supported by the lieutenant governor or the mayor or the attorney general. Enforce the laws that are not being enforced at all and restore peace to an American state.

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Now, one of the ongoing contentions is, well, that could cost President Trump in the midterms. People might be uncomfortable with the scene of the military enforcing the law. The left is gonna lie anyway. The left is consistently lying right now.

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All over the internet, there are people who are becoming convinced, decent people who don't just really consume that much news, were becoming convinced that somehow the men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol and HSI are doing something wrong, that they're hurting American citizens, they're going out of their way to menace them, that this is just some sort of evil authoritarian regime.

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People are becoming convinced of this because the left is winning a narrative fight against the truth. And we can't let that happen. So how do we prevent that from happening? One is tell the truth frequently, loudly, and make sure as many people as possible can hear it. Two is support the men and women of ICE.

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