January 7 – An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shoots Renée Good in a car during a protest against immigration operations in Minneapolis. The DHS claims Good had tried to ram agents, but witnesses dispute this.[4]
January 9 – Four homeless Oglala men are detained by ICE under a bridge. Three of the men are taken to the ICE facility at Fort Snelling.[5]
January 12 – The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul sue the DHS over the surge of federal law enforcement in the Twin Cities.[6]
Protesters interrupt services at a Saint Paul church where ICE Twin Cities field director David Easterwood is a pastor, though it is unclear if he was in the church at the time.[8]
January 22 – Two people are arrested and charged with federal offenses for the protest at a church in Saint Paul from January 18, including local activist Nekima Levy Armstrong. Federal prosecutors also ask for charges against journalist Don Lemon, who documented the protest, but a judge rejects this.[11]
January 24 – Border Patrol agents fatally shoot American citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. One agent removes a gun from Pretti's holster before two others shoot him.[12]
January 27
A man is arrested for spraying vinegar on Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05) during a town hall in Minneapolis.[13]
Shelley Buck (DFL-Maplewood) and Meg Luger-Nikolai (DFL-Saint Paul), the former of whom ran unopposed, win special elections to the Minnesota House. Luger-Nikolai wins with 95.6% of the vote.[14]
January 29 – Don Lemon is arrested in Los Angeles, California in connection to the protest he covered on January 18.[15]
January 30 – The Department of Justice opens a federal civil rights probe into the shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.[16]
January 31 – Liam Conejo Ramos and his father are released from an immigration facility in Texas and flown back to Minnesota.[17]
February
February 4 – Border Czar Tom Homan says 700 federal officers, about a quarter of those deployed to Minnesota, will be withdrawn, following an agreement with state and local authorities to turn over arrested immigrants to federal authorities.[18]
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