Crime Armed protestor killed in Minneapolis

https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/shots-fired-after-police-in-minneapolis-struggle-to-subdue-man-brandishing-gun-amid-protests-video-shows/

Shots fired after federal police in Minneapolis struggle to subdue man brandishing gun amid protests, video shows​

By
Geoff Earle and

Elisha Fieldstadt
Published Jan. 24, 2026, 11:29 a.m. ET
970 Comments

Shots rang out in Minneapolis early Saturday after federal police tried to subdue a man who was waving around a gun, according to law enforcement sources and video posted to social media.

A 39-second clip showed about half a dozen cops struggling with someone on the sidewalk in front of a donut shop at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, when the gunfire erupted.

The officers appeared to scatter after the barrage of shots went off, according to the footage.



The shooting happened after the man brandished a firearm with two magazines, a law enforcement source told The Post, sharing a photo of the firearm.

In a statement, city officials urged residents to stay calm and avoid the area.


“We are aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave. We are working to confirm additional details,” the statement said.

More than 100 protesters had been at the scene when the encounter occurred. The man’s condition was not immediately known.





On Friday, protesters yelled obscenities at two people wearing plain clothes who they believed to be agents after protesters claimed their rental car was linked to the incident, according to video reviewed by The Post.

Neither person was an officer.



Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) posted about the incident on X late morning Saturday as the details of the shooting were still unfolding.

“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” he wrote.

“The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”


Neither the White House or the Department of Homeland Security have said what precipitated the shooting, and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Despite what the Post says about the protestor's condition, Fox News is reporting he died. Spiciness inbound.

 

[TowinKarz]

Ever heard of the Boston massacre?

That's basically what you describe, although you could argue about to which extent that mob were fucking around like absolute speds.

They were such speds? Tossing snowballs and clam shells and rocks at armed soldiers? The soldiers themselves were acquitted by a Continental jury....

If he really was lawfully carrying, and the agent just freaked out when he saw the gun in its holster and the guy wasn't even going for it, then that's fucked up. I want all illegals to get deported so the billionaire farm owners don't have any more slave labor, but letting glowies kill people exercising their rights and cheering for it is nigger-tier

If the left hadn't made it clear they intend to obstruct at best and harm at worst, Federal agents? Then maybe it would be unreasonable for an armed agent to assume the worst from anyone he sees in the crowd with a gun.

But, any sane reading of the room right now means a person on the sidewalk with a gun who is deliberately hanging around Federal LEO activity can be assumed to be a threat.

The "protestors" have no one to blame but themselves for creating the environment where they are assumed to be up to no good and do not get the benefit of the doubt they would've only a few months or years ago.

When protesting became violence? And violence protesting? This was the only way it was ever going to end.

 

[Salty Potatoes]

I can't imagine being ICE, I'd probably have PTSD anytime I hear a whistle for the rest of my life.

If I was ever on a jury for an ICE agent shooting someone and there was anything close to sounding like a whistle, I would nullify.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

man we're 2 for 2 for useless screeching women being in control of the camera.

Average bodycam enjoyer: "First time?"

 

[Potion_Time]

If he really was lawfully carrying, and the agent just freaked out when he saw the gun in its holster and the guy wasn't even going for it, then that's fucked up. I want all illegals to get deported so the billionaire farm owners don't have any more slave labor, but letting glowies kill people exercising their rights and cheering for it is nigger-tier

My guy, if you bring a gun somewhere where people you have openly declared as Trumps personal gestapo are doing their jobs they have a right assume you intend to use it on them.

Left wingers are victims of their own rhetoric. They have nobody to blame but themselves and all ICE agents should be given blanket immunity from any state level prosecutions for actions taken in the line of duty. No blue state should have a right to even investigate or bring civil charges. They should also be fined for every dead leftist that have to be cleaned up off the street due to their insane and violent terrorist level rhetoric towards non Democrat voters.

 

[DickMain]

HE NEVER HELD THE GUN. HE NEVER THREATENED LAW ENFORCEMENT THIS WAS A BAD SHOOT ON A LEGALLY ARMED CITIZEN BY OINKY HOGS POWER TRIPPING ON SUGAR RUSH FROM THE LOCAL DONUT SHOP.

BOOTLICKERS WILL DEFEND THIS AND PROVE HOW MUCH 2A DOESN’T MEAN SHIT.

okay fuck yes I am going to spend the rest of the day celebrating cya bros!

I mean hey a dead commie is still a Good Commie. I don't give a shit if he was carrying legally or not. If you're gonna support importing infinigger bulbheads and show up to cause trouble while packing then expect to lear some hard lessons. Serves him right for wanting to drown our home in useless 60IQ brownoids.

 

[A Bit Concerning]

I’ll say this much. All the news coming out of Minnesota is going to DESTROY any hope that Trump or the republicans had of winning the midterms, and it’s also going to halt the progress that could have or would have been made with deportations. We saw what this same schtick did in 2020. That’s why it’s so depressing, because you can just tell that the mishandling of it all is going to make things 100x worse in the future. I can’t wait for 2029 when the ATF is blowing people’s heads off in the name of gun control and anti-MAGAfication and everyone celebrates it because it’s a nice federal agency and a not a heckin unwholesome one.

 

[Neil]

That headline is incredible framing from the NYPost, spinning narratives for the government for fucking free.

Republicans calling themselves the party of gun rights is fucking laughable, 2A only matters when the NRA's cashflow is threatened after a school shooting, but when a Republican is in office, things like concealed carry can be used to justify federal agents murdering you. The 2A boogaloo larpers who crow "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" after a Democrat suggests restrictions on assault rifles are the same people contorting themselves to reaffirm the Trump Administration's "HE'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!" defense.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

Quislings get the bullet.

 

[Water Store Remark]

I’ll say this much. All the news coming out of Minnesota is going to DESTROY any hope that Trump or the republicans had of winning the midterms, and it’s also going to halt the progress that could have or would have been made with deportations. We saw what this same schtick did in 2020. That’s why it’s so depressing, because you can just tell that the mishandling of it all is going to make things 100x worse in the future. I can’t wait for 2029 when the ATF is blowing people’s heads off in the name of gun control and anti-MAGAfication and everyone celebrates it because it’s a nice federal agency and a not a heckin unwholesome one.

It's a valid worry, but at the same time I think the country as a whole has an extremely short attention span and memory. November is a long way away in terms of news cycles. Hell, I'm willing to bet most people already forgot that we raided Venezuela this month.

 

[A Bit Concerning]

It's a valid worry, but at the same time I think the country as a whole has an extremely short attention span and memory. November is a long way away in terms of news cycles. Hell, I'm willing to bet most people already forgot that we raided Venezuela this month.

It’s honestly scary how short people’s memories are with regard to politics. I have seen multiple people online and in person who were calling Trump a pedophile less than 2 weeks ago who now love him unconditionally. It’s fucking exhausting.

I really do just see the current right becoming what libs and leftists were when they held power, though. It’s really just exhausting and I think that the amount of dogshit decisions we’ve seen made by Trump as well as his complete failure to care out a lot of his campaign policies is going to lead to a very bad outcome long term. And like I said, 2020. People were actively campaigning for the police to be totally abolished after what happened back then. Stuff like this is going to lead to a large amount of people willing to have totally open borders, which, ironically enough, is going to benefit billionaires who can now hire infinite cheap labor.

 

[tehpope]

I'll give it a week or so before I make my decision on how I should feel. More shit (angles of the incident and info on the victim) will come out. And the left and msm want you to make a emotional decision right away based on initial info and never change it.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

I’ll say this much. All the news coming out of Minnesota is going to DESTROY any hope that Trump or the republicans had of winning the midterms, and it’s also going to halt the progress that could have or would have been made with deportations. We saw what this same schtick did in 2020. That’s why it’s so depressing, because you can just tell that the mishandling of it all is going to make things 100x worse in the future. I can’t wait for 2029 when the ATF is blowing people’s heads off in the name of gun control and anti-MAGAfication and everyone celebrates it because it’s a nice federal agency and a not a heckin unwholesome one.

The midterms don't matter because the executive branch has been given infinite power by people too afraid to put their name on a vote that may see them fired. Biden was treating the FBI like his personal gestapo, or are we going to pretend like they didn't jail a man over a meme (that a democrat comedian posted a reverse version of and didnt so much as get investigated over) and attempt to put away actually peaceful pro-life protestors for decades?

The party in power always loses the midterms, Obama lost 60+ seats. Trump will likely lose much, much less but the margins are so narrow that it doesnt matter. What matters is that executives are essentially allowed to rule by fiat now: see Biden ignoring border laws and Trump enforcing them.

There is no polite way to deport people that would see leftists not chimp out, and we shouldn't try. In fact, we should do exactly what we're doing, but MORE of it. You think normies will give a shit if a leftoid is getting their brains blown out daily instead of weekly? No, that quickly becomes old news.

The alternative is just letting leftists import 3rd world voters forever and admitting the country is dead. No thanks, I'd rather be 'mean' than live in brazil.

 

[Potion_Time]

That headline is incredible framing from the NYPost, spinning narratives for the government for fucking free.

Republicans calling themselves the party of gun rights is fucking laughable, 2A only matters when the NRA's cashflow is threatened after a school shooting, but when a Republican is in office, things like concealed carry can be used to justify federal agents murdering you. The 2A boogaloo larpers who crow "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" after a Democrat suggests restrictions on assault rifles are the same people contorting themselves to reaffirm the Trump Administration's "HE'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!" defense.

I have an idea, don't attempt to obstruct law enforcement while armed.

You realize the rest of us don't get killed by the police because we don't actively attempt to fuck with them, right? I get you're retarded and think the rules don't apply to you, but I think that everything that you get is perfectly justified and I won't mourn a single one of you. The world is a better place without you in it.

So go larp as a member of "le resistance". I'll continue to laugh when you make a surprised pikachu face because the cop you attacked popped your commie dome off.

 

[RetardedHunter]

I hope the bullet is alright.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

libtards calling each other feds and getting into fights is the best.

horseshoe chuds keep winning that GAMBA SESH!

“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” he wrote.

Muricatards, correct me but since when did fucking state leaders started to become ballsy against the fucking president? You're asking to get insurrection act'ed or sucided by two bullets to the back of the head. Which given his defense of somali monkeys and now, some dumb bitch whos floyd 2.0,maybe him getting suicided by glowies wouldn't be bad.

 

[grump]

All I've seen is a video right before the shooting and a blurry video midway through struggle that has red circles claiming this or that hand on one of the agents has no gun or has a gun but doesn't show anything for the man himself. Where is the ironclad proof half the people here seem to have seen that he was unarmed through the entire struggle?

Having said that if you are armed and start a physical confrontation with law officers you vastly increase your chances of getting shot whether you physically reach for your gun or not. Thats been the case forever. I don't understand retards who are claiming this is a new thing.

 

[A Bit Concerning]

The midterms don't matter because the executive branch has been given infinite power by people too afraid to put their name on a vote that may see them fired. Biden was treating the FBI like his personal gestapo, or are we going to pretend like they didn't jail a man over a meme (that a democrat comedian posted a reverse version of and didnt so much as get investigated over) and attempt to put away actually peaceful pro-life protestors for decades?

That’s what I’m talking about. All that changes is the federal agency doing it, and who they’re doing it against. The actual methods and ideas don’t. I think it speaks to increased authoritarianism across both parties, and both “sides” tolerate it because they have more concern with seeing the people they don’t like suffer than actually making things better for the majority of people. It’s a massive fucking blackpill.

You think normies will give a shit if a leftoid is getting their brains blown out daily instead of weekly? No, that quickly becomes old news.

The leftists and the normies are not the only influence here. Billionaires don’t want fucking deportations, rich powerful people don’t want them. Trump will bend the knee when push comes to shove. All the current deportation operations have just been theater, the numbers are practically the same as they were under Obama. It’s entirely about the illusion of mass deportations to make dick riders happy.

 

[The Internet Dick]

He even had a gun permit and was lawfully carrying.

I have a carry license in my home state. Even so, there are very specific laws in my home state against brandishing, which is typically a misdemeanor. However, that misdemeanor can rapidly ratchet up to major felonies depending on context--flashing my firearm at someone as a means of intimidation, for example. Brandishing a firearm can also, as in this incident, cause police to think I'm drawing down on them, which would make for a very bad day.

 

[didelphigina]

So the cycle continues apparently.

>person dies
>youtubers and every news media outlet spend an hour overly analyzing the footage despite it's clear as day who's at fault (the protestor)
>meaningless anyway because leftists only see an opportunity to use them as a political crutch
>more protests form than ever
>more "SAY THEIR NAME!!"
>revolutionary freedom fighters are now emboldened more than ever
>more provoking ICE agents
>more treating every single ICE agent as literal Gestapo Nazis and pressuring them to their mental/psychological limit
>protestor tries to be a revolutionary once again to defend other person who died by trying to attack an ICE agent
>already overly stressed ICE agent ends up shooting them because at this point they don't know what to do anymore because everyone already sees them as satan reincarnated
>SAY THEIR NAME happens again
>repeat.

I'll wait till more footage comes out. I'd rather wait until there's a broader determination on who's at fault. But my money goes toward the protestor. If it's the ICE agent, then I'll assume something happened that made them pull the trigger. With everything going on, I'm not surprised ICE agents are holding the trigger at any means possible because they don't know who's going to attack or provoke them.

Some are saying he was actually unarmed and ((if)) in that case, yeah, that is probably a bad look but at this point I don't know what to feel anymore. An ICE agent was bound to do some mistake because they're nothing but the Gestapo(TM) to all these people. They wanted to wait for an ICE agent to make that fatal mistake. Provoke them enough.

They wanted him to be unarmed to further their cause. They don't care he's dead, they care that he's another tool for them to use. Again, if the victim was black, Minneapolis would've unironically burned to the ground.

Is it that hard to leave an ICE agent alone? Is it that hard to not try and provoke a group of law enforcement that has a bunch of loud minorities and hyper leftists calling them Gestapo and willing to dox their entire livelihood for the sake of protecting (illegal) foreigners that will walk all over them unless they're using them to pawn their way to leagues of power and influence?

 

[Neil]

don't attempt to obstruct law enforcement

They weren't even in the process of arresting anyone, these insecure faggots were shoving a woman to the ground because she emasculated them, and then executed the guy who filmed them.

You realize the rest of us don't get killed by the police because we don't actively attempt to fuck with them, right? I get you're retarded and think the rules don't apply to you, but I think that everything that you get is perfectly justified and I won't mourn a single one of you. The world is a better place without you in it.

The main point of contention is that the feds aren't allowed to execute you because you hurt their feelings. Actual police officers aren't supposed to wantonly murder people, even people guilty of crimes. That's for juries to decide.

You bootlicking faggots will act as if every federal agent is some scared fragile forest doe who has the right to murder you if you so much as look at them wrong whenever a Republican is in office. Yet you spent the entirety of Biden's term crying for civil war when being politely asked to wear a mask to go into the local Wendy's in the four months pandemic was cooling off after he took office.

I genuinely hope whichever Democrat wins in 2028 puts you bootlicking cunts in the same situations you've been full-throatedly defending to preserve Trump's honor.

Biden was treating the FBI like his personal gestapo,

I don't recall Biden's FBI summarily executing any right-wingers during his term in the same fashion that ICE is doing right now, with the DHS, Vice President and Trump himself spin-doctoring coverup stories and refusing to investigate them. I hope the next Democrat lives up to the fantastical delusions you people have in your heads.