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Minnesota protests enter 3rd week as immigration raids continue

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In Minnesota, clashes between protesters and federal immigration officers continue into a third week. It comes as the Department of Justice announced its plan to pursue charges against protesters in Minneapolis, while confirming it does not plan to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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In Minnesota, residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul remain on edge as clashes between

0:06.0

protesters and federal immigration officers continue into a third week.

0:10.8

It comes as the Department of Justice announced its plan to pursue charges against protesters

0:16.2

in Minneapolis while confirming it does not plan to investigate the circumstances surrounding

0:21.4

the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.

0:24.8

Special correspondent Fred DeSam Lazaro has the latest.

0:29.1

Another weekend and another intense wave of immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities

0:34.5

as more than 2,000 federal officers continue to crackdown

0:38.3

characterized by aggressive force and unyielding protests.

0:43.3

It comes as weary residents brace for the potential deployment of active duty troops after

0:48.6

President Trump threatened late last week to invoke the Insurrection Act, something Mayor

0:53.6

Jacob Fry said Sunday would

0:55.6

be, quote, shocking.

0:57.6

You gotta understand how wild this is right now.

1:01.6

In Minneapolis, crime is dramatically down.

1:06.2

We don't need more federal agents to keep people safe.

1:10.6

We are safe.

1:11.6

Fry himself, along with Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, are now reportedly under investigation

1:16.6

by the Department of Justice for allegedly impeding federal law enforcement officers.

1:22.6

Yesterday, the Justice Department announced a separate investigation into protesters who

1:30.7

disrupted a church service where they believed a local pastor was also an ICE official

1:35.9

from the St. Paul office.

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