President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota if state lawmakers didn’t stop protesters “from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
On Truth Social Thursday morning, Trump asserted that protesters, whom he referred to as “professional agitators and insurrectionists,” were attacking members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanded “corrupt politicians” stop the attacks.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump wrote
His claim comes a week after an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good during a confrontation in Minneapolis and less than a day after another ICE officer shot an immigrant in the leg.
The Insurrection Act is an 1807 rarely used law that allows the president to utilize military troops or federalize National Guard troops in order to suppress uncontrollable protests or other civil disturbance situations.
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