How Minneapolis rioters are forcing Trump’s hand with the Insurrection Act
By Rich Lowry
Published Jan. 15, 2026
Updated Jan. 16, 2026, 7:02 a.m. ET
If Minnesota officials don’t like President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest Wednesday night and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably enough — rioted.
In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey once again blasted ICE.
Imagine, he implored, if your city “was suddenly invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not hold the values that you hold dear.”
Minnesota’s elected officials might want to consider whether portraying federal law-enforcement officers as an alien, invading force is the best way to convince Trump that he shouldn’t resort to the Insurrection Act.
They sound like Confederate leaders complaining about, say, the 20th Maine Infantry showing up within the city limits of Richmond, Va., in 1863.
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