Federal agents use teargas on protesters outside ICE agents’ alleged Minneapolis hotel | Minneapolis

At a demonstration at a Minneapolis hotel on Sunday evening, protesters believed federal agents were on edge; Law enforcement reportedly used chemical irritants to clear the scene after some demonstrators damaged the building.

Protesters gathered at the Home2 Suites by Hilton near the University of Minnesota. According to the Minnesota DailyWhere federal immigration agents believe Alex Pretti remained after his murder. Video The scene shows protesters making loud noises outside and graffiti with messages such as “ICE out” being painted on the windows. These images reference U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government agency at the forefront of the Trump administration’s ongoing mass deportation campaign.

New York Post reported Demonstrators also tried to throw things at people in the lobby and break windows. The video shows two federal officers standing outside the hotel lobby with long guns as protesters gather. “Where are the local police?” In the video, an officer is heard saying, referring to the police department.

Eventually, law enforcement dispersed the crowd using the irritant popularly known as tear gas.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) said in a statement that the state patrol and department of natural resources (DNR) were called “to assist Minneapolis police with damage to hotel property.”

“While we worked collaboratively to arrest the group because the demonstration was not peaceful, federal agents arrived without communication and cleared the group using chemical irritants,” DPS said. in a post. The agency’s post said the state patrol and DNR were “no longer on scene.”

The demonstration came two days after U.S. border patrol personnel killed Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, at the local Veterans Administration hospital. Although the video showed Pretti unarmed and restrained when he was shot and killed by Border Patrol, Trump administration officials defended the attack.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed another U.S. citizen, Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis on January 7 as she tried to walk away from an encounter with him.

Democratic Minnesota governor Tim Walz, the running mate of Kamala Harris, who lost the 2024 presidential election to Trump, called on the White House to withdraw federal immigration enforcement officials from the city. Agents have been flocking there since December.

“President Trump, you can end this today,” Walz said Sunday. “Withdraw these people. Do humane, focused, effective immigration control; you have the support of all of us to do that.”

“Please show some kindness, pull these people away.”