What Happened Today - 7 Jan 2026
What Happened Today – 7 January 2026
Trump’s ICE Circus in Minneapolis: Fake ‘Self‑Defense,’ and a Full‑Blown Propaganda Spin
Trump’s ICE Circus in Minneapolis: Fake ‘Self‑Defense,’ and a Full‑Blown Propaganda Spin
The Minneapolis situation is a complete mess: an ICE officer shot and killed a 37‑year‑old woman in south Minneapolis in the middle of Trump’s big immigration show of force, and now the feds are hiding behind a “self‑defense” fairy tale while state and city leaders are calling it what it looks like and telling ICE to get the hell out.
What actually went down: this happened near 34th and Portland during what DHS is proudly selling as its largest operation ever in the city, with thousands of federal agents on the ground. DHS and ICE are pushing the line that she “weaponized her vehicle” in a “vehicle‑ramming” or “domestic terrorism” situation and that the officer fired in self‑defense because she supposedly tried to run them over with the car. But the videos tell a very different story: you see ICE agents swarming the SUV, one in front of it, they’re screaming at her to get out, the car moves and then the officer fires multiple shots at close range, and the vehicle ends up crashing into parked cars; there is no clear evidence on the footage that anyone was actually “run over” the way Trump and DHS are claiming.
Walz is not playing along with the spin. He’s flat out telling people not to “believe the propaganda machine,” promising a full, fast investigation, and making it clear that ICE and DHS are not above the law just because they’ve slapped a “national security” label on everything. He’s tying this directly to Trump’s escalation, saying flooding Minnesota with armed federal agents is terrorizing communities, not protecting them, and calling out the administration for governing like a reality show while insisting Minnesota doesn’t need and doesn’t want this kind of “help.”
Frey (mayor) is done with ICE, period. After watching the video, he called the self‑defense story “bullshit” and a “garbage narrative,” saying this was an agent recklessly abusing power and that a woman is dead because of it. He’s literally telling ICE to “get the f*** out of Minneapolis,” saying they’re not keeping anyone safe, they’re creating chaos and mistrust, ripping families apart, and now killing people in the street while already trying to spin it as justified.
Kristi Noem…aka “ICE Barbie” is running the full MAGA script around this Minneapolis catastrophe. In the middle of Trump’s immigration crackdown and this shooting, she’s been loudly defending the hard‑line enforcement push and parroting the idea that anyone criticizing ICE is basically attacking law and order itself instead of dealing with the reality that a federal agent just shot a 37‑year‑old woman dead. That fits perfectly with the broader Trump comms playbook here: lean hard into law‑and‑order rhetoric, treat any scrutiny of ICE as anti‑police, and paint people like Frey and Walz as radical, soft‑on‑crime politicians who are supposedly undermining brave officers just for “doing their jobs.”
Trump, of course, is fully riding with ICE. He’s out there saying the officer “seems” to have acted in self‑defense and that the woman “viciously ran over” the agent, even though the video he’s talking about does not actually show what he’s describing. On top of that, on Truth Social he claims the ICE officer is “recovering” in the hospital and acting like it’s a miracle he survived, when the publicly available footage shows the officer on his feet and moving after the shooting, with no clear sign he was crushed or incapacitated the way Trump is implying. He’s calling the video “a horrible thing to watch” and then immediately turning around and blaming the “Radical Left,” saying they’re threatening and targeting ICE and law enforcement every day and using this to fuel the culture war instead of answering the basic question of why a federal cop just put bullets into a woman in the middle of a Minneapolis neighborhood.
On the ground in Minneapolis, people are furious and they’re not hiding it. Crowds showed up at the scene, protesters have been confronting both federal and local officers, and civil rights and immigrant‑rights groups are demanding an immediate, transparent investigation and straight‑up calling for ICE to get out of the city and the state. Nationally, it’s exactly the split you’d expect: Democrats, progressives, and immigrant‑rights advocates are pointing to this as proof that Trump’s mass‑deportation, mega‑ICE deployment is dangerous and deadly, while Trump world and DHS brass are doubling down on the “domestic terrorism”/vehicle‑ramming storyline to justify the crackdown and paint any criticism as anti‑cop extremism.
I’m not providing any other updates today. This was enough. Absolutely disgusting.
Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
These are facts that I researched and verified – AI helped put together some sentence structure, but the words and tone are mine. These are my views based upon facts, research and thoughtful consideration using logic. I own the copyright to any images used. I’m comfortable to stand alone to uphold truth. Feel free to check me, but do not attack me. I am only causing good trouble.