Schools in Minneapolis are closed, not just because there are protests happening there, but because ice attacked students at a high school in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/Y9suXPGj5I
— Miranda 🖤🤍💜 (@DoomScroling) January 9, 2026
Federal agents dressed as U.S. Border Patrol Agents fired tear gas at students and teachers at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, notes MPR News:
Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” the official added. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
The New York Times reports the Trump administration is sending more federal agents to Minnesota:
Documents obtained by The New York Times suggested that at least 100 more federal agents were being deployed to Minnesota.
Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said in an interview on Thursday that the Trump administration would use any chaos as an opportunity to “occupy Minneapolis in some form.”
(Sources: MPR News, Twitter/X, The New York Times)