
Well, isn’t this a different kettle of fish now?
There was another Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involved shooting in Minneapolis last night.
WATCH: @JasonRantz responding on ‘CNN NewsNight’ to a second ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis….
“ICE tonight went after someone in a targeted act b/c not only were they in this country illegally, but presumably there was also a crime that was committed. That ICE agent was… pic.twitter.com/gYLgu09XvH
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 15, 2026
…”ICE tonight went after someone in a targeted act b/c not only were they in this country illegally, but presumably there was also a crime that was committed. That ICE agent was attacked. This is not terrorizing the community. This is, in fact, precisely what it is that most people usually at this table has also conceded is kind of important where you don’t want to just go around and randomly ask people for papers. You compare that to the gestapo, but now you’re saying that going after someone who is a criminal, that somehow is hands off, we shouldn’t be doing that. And that doesn’t make a community safer by going after criminals.”
“And at the exact same time, we’ve got the ICE agent not only being attacked allegedly by this individual, but also two people in the neighborhood. Perhaps we should also take just a moment, pause and say, you shouldn’t do that. That is wrong. That is a quick way to get injured yourself. We can separate out going after someone who is in this country illegally, who is going about their day, and trying to contribute to our society. Like, I don’t think there’s an appetite — I don’t have an appetite for that. But I do have an appetite for going after people who are committing crimes here. And this seems to be like the least controversial issue that we should be angry with.”
After a car chase ending in a crash, the ICE agent involved in the shooting was attacked, as Jason said, by not one but three individuals, armed with a shovel and a broom handle.
…According to DHS, a federal agent was in the process of arresting an undocumented immigrant during a routine traffic stop. The individual crashed their vehicle into another car and then fled.
When the law enforcement officer caught up with the immigrant, a struggle ensued, and two other individuals came out of a nearby apartment and attacked the agent with a snow shovel and broom handle, DHS said. When the fleeing immigrant got free, officials said they began striking the officer with a shovel and a broomstick.
“Fearing for his life and safety as he was ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS reported. “The initial subject was hit in the leg.”
Yeah.
DEEZ GUYS
BREAKING: DHS releases the names & backgrounds of the three illegal aliens they say attacked an ICE agent in Minneapolis last night, leading to a shooting. All are Venezuelan illegal aliens who were caught & released at the border by the Biden administration.
Per DHS:
Julio… pic.twitter.com/nmWNmIWFZi
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 15, 2026
They seem nice.
Predictably, the screaming hordes overreacted, swarming the scene immediately upon being notified of the federal agents’ presence, and turning the night into a virtual running firefight, ‘protecting’ other possible ICE targets and rioting over the arrest of those winsome ICE attackers.
What was happening looked as if it could have been filmed on a street in Mogadishu or Sarajevo.
3) The scale of the conflict was enormous, spanning a few blocks in each direction from the shooting, lasting a couple hours.
Protesters exchanged fireworks and tear gas on one side of the shooting scene as others engaged with police on the opposite side. pic.twitter.com/TjFSe2XyyN
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) January 15, 2026
During one of last night’s clashes, other photojournalists, as well as Nick Sorter’s excellent (and courageous) camera, caught the oh-so-innocently named ‘legal observers’ who have been playing hell with ICE enforcement efforts, literally breaking into, vandalizing, and looting an abandoned ICE vehicle in the aftermath of the shooting incident.
🚨 BREAKING: MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis after federal agents were forced to abandon them
Agents gear, laptops, and personal information now LITTERS the street
THIS IS ABSOLUTE ANARCHY
INSURRECTION ACT NOW! pic.twitter.com/MZV9Y2J4M1
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
Cackling, hysterical anarchists rifle through the vehicle, and begin to break into the locked containers. In one car’s weapons lockers, they scored a rifle and ammunition.
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis rioters successfully BROKE OPEN a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and STOLE A RIFLE and ammunition before fleeing
I captured the thief’s face and license plate on the getaway vehicle.
PLEASE SHARE and HELP IDENTIFY this POS.
I have forwarded this… pic.twitter.com/7rwfIsN7v6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
And then they somehow manage to find two tow ropes to yank the weapons locker, which is bolted into the vehicle, out.
🚨 BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters tied a TOW ROPE to a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and RIPPED IT OUT with a pickup truck, as Minneapolis PD REFUSED to respond
THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE
DHS agents are SITTING DUCKS
WE NEED MARINES HERE NOW! Locals are BEGGING for relief, 47! pic.twitter.com/v88fqedOOV
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
The scene is utter madness, but it gets worse. The hyena cackling intensifies when a woman realizes that the paperwork she has in her hands is all ICE arrest warrants and personal information.
Also left behind by the Feds appear to GW a stack of papers including arrest warrants and intelligence now in the hands of Minneapolis community members opposing ICE. pic.twitter.com/dCihu5L858
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) January 15, 2026
They are giddy with delight.
A prominent far-left podcaster displayed it all on his social media feed, every last page, even as he instructs his peeps to ‘take screenshots.’ Phone numbers, addresses, where they take people, how, and personal agent information – terrifying data in the hands of what is effectively the enemy.
BREAKING🚨: Andrew Mercado (@MercadoMedia1 / @Guru_Merc) broadcast stolen DHS documents LIVE on stream—reading out federal agents’ names, IDs, phone numbers, and operational “battle plans” from looted ICE vehicles in Minneapolis.
This is straight-up felony-level exposure of law… pic.twitter.com/aZzONNXUB4
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) January 15, 2026
Sorter says he believes he managed to intercept most of the agents’ personal data and as many of the ICE access badges as he saw.
In the light of day, Mercado has started to panic and is locking down all of his social media accounts.
Moron Leftist Andrew Mercado broadcast the stolen DHS documents LIVE on stream read out federal agents’ names, IDs, phone numbers, and operational “battle plans” from looted ICE vehicles in Minneapolis.
He’s since locked down socials. Prison is next. Idiot
— TheQuartering (@TheQuartering) January 15, 2026
But too many people saved every bit of it.
BREAKING – Leftist agitator Andrew Mercado is facing mass calls for arrest after receiving stolen FBI and ICE documents from destroyed federal vehicles in Minneapolis and reading them live on stream, a felony carrying a 10 year sentence.
He is scrambling to erase all evidence. pic.twitter.com/Ojv1DHCWfx
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 15, 2026
The woman whose voice you hear announcing that she ‘has something’ she wants Mercado to see, taken from the agent’s car, has also reportedly been identified and look exactly like you think she would.
She has been identified!
Mira Altobell-Resendez.
She stole federal property in Minneapolis. https://t.co/8GEa18gxbg pic.twitter.com/U2G3Amhnze— JLR© (@JLRINVESTIGATES) January 15, 2026
You might recognize her.
BREAKING – One of the leftist agitators involved in the attack on FBI vehicles in Minneapolis last night has reportedly been identified as Mira Altobell Resendez.
Just days ago, Ilhan Omar was protesting with her.
The University of Minnesota has scrubbed her from its site. pic.twitter.com/WD1DYuYDhm
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 15, 2026
And she works exactly where you’d think she did, doing pretty much the worthless radical virtue-signaling crap you’d expect.
University of Minnesota encampment leader Mira Altobell–Resendez. She works for the UofM @UMNews Office of Equity Diversity as an Access Specialist.
Her employers are suddenly not so proud to have her name on their website. That seems peculiar.
🚨 BREAKING: @UMNews has scrubbed Mira Altobell-Resendez from its website.
I’m not taking UMN’s word for anything. This is the same university apparatus that’s employed known radicals like Nick Estes and, until recently, Melanie Yazzie, figures steeped in decolonial ideology and… pic.twitter.com/8sK5kwTXUx
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) January 15, 2026
…This is the same university apparatus that’s employed known radicals like Nick Estes and, until recently, Melanie Yazzie, figures steeped in decolonial ideology and armed resistance rhetoric.
So I archived the page earlier today, when her name was still clearly listed.
And for the record, I flagged Altobell-Resendez to UMN back in 2024. Total silence, even as she talked about targeting the school’s regents.
How nice that the University of Minnesota has its own homegrown radical program and keeps it all in-house.
Now, neither she nor Mercado would have anything to worry about had this been a rumble with the ineffectual and non-confrontational Minneapolis Police Department. But these two have just stepped over the line with a federal government that is on the warpath, and damn well they should be.
I hope the next raid is targeted at picking both of these two up, and whoever wants to get a fat lip protecting them.
The FBI announced a reward for the return of the federal property.
Please see below for information on the FBI’s reward of up to $100,000 related to last night’s vandalism and theft of government property in Minneapolis.
If you harm law enforcement or destroy / steal federal property this @FBI will not hesitate to pursue you, find you, and… pic.twitter.com/3ZGf6Vntyd
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) January 15, 2026
In the meantime, the local delinquents have been busy all day.
BREAKING: Howling militants dump water to create ice at entrance/exit used by riot police at Minneapolis federal building
This is an obvious attempt to injure federal officers
Monitoring the situation • Follow for updates
Support our mission: https://t.co/necJTN3Vs5 pic.twitter.com/6Ot7Voy86T
— Border Hawk (@BorderHawkNews) January 15, 2026
See what happens when kids don’t have a real job as teenagers?
They just never get one, and then they stay in trouble for the rest of their lives. Like this guy who was at the weapons locker in the car party, too.
BREAKING – The leftist terrorist captured on film by Nick Sortor breaking into an FBI weapons safe inside a federal vehicle in Minneapolis and stealing a rifle has been arrested. pic.twitter.com/QVwpZurAHj
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) January 16, 2026
Sorter says the handsome, inky devil above has also just been confirmed to be a member of the Latin Kings gang and has a lengthy criminal record. Terrific,
One down, more to go.
Prayers up that no one takes it upon themselves to act on the information released last night, thanks to Altobell–Resendez and Mercado’s unspeakably evil actions.
There are so many sick, sick people in those crowds…and standing at the edge of them.
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