Anti-ICE agitators arrested outside Minnesota hotel as police declare unlawful assembly: 'No longer peaceful'

Police successful Minnesota began arresting anti-ICE agitators extracurricular a edifice Monday aft authorities said the objection escalated and was "no longer considered peaceful," prompting officers to state an unlawful assembly.

The demonstrators were extracurricular the SpringHill Suites by Marriott successful Maple Grove, Minnesota, wherever they believed U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was staying.

President Donald Trump announced Bovino and galore of his agents would beryllium leaving Minneapolis arsenic portion of a reshuffling of enactment successful carrying retired his migration crackdown amid bipartisan scrutiny implicit the migration enforcement cognition successful Minneapolis that intensified aft agents killed an American signaling Border Patrol enactment implicit the weekend.

Border Czar Tom Homan is expected to present pb the effort successful the state.

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Demonstrators basal against instrumentality enforcement officers during a protestation extracurricular SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn by Marriott hotels connected Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, successful Maple Grove, Minnesota. (AP)

Maple Grove constabulary said officers responded connected Monday to reports of a protestation astatine the edifice and that the protestation escalated erstwhile agitators allegedly began throwing objects astatine officers and damaging property.

After constabulary declared an unlawful assembly and issued a dispersal order, respective radical who refused to permission were arrested, authorities said.

"The Maple Grove Police Department respects and upholds the First Amendment rights of individuals to peacefully assemble and explicit their views. Our precedence remains the information and information of each residents, visitors, and spot wrong our community," a spokesperson for the constabulary section said successful a connection to KSTP.

"At that point, the enactment was nary longer considered peaceful. Individuals participating successful transgression acts are not protected nether the First Amendment and were taxable to arrest," the spokesperson added.

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Maple Grove constabulary officers basal during a protestation extracurricular SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn by Marriott hotels connected Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, successful Maple Grove, Minnesota. (AP)

The Minnesota State Patrol, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Hennepin Public Order Group each responded to the country to assistance Maple Grove officers.

The determination to propulsion Bovino from Minneapolis came aft helium had faced backlash implicit his unsubstantiated claims that Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old U.S. national killed by Border Patrol agents, intended to "massacre" instrumentality enforcement, a characterization the White House has distanced the president from.

Pretti was changeable and killed connected Saturday by Border Patrol agents portion signaling national migration operations successful Minneapolis. An ICU nurse, Pretti appeared to beryllium attempting to be to a pistillate agents knocked down erstwhile helium was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the crushed and beaten. An cause was seen pulling Pretti's weapon from his waistband earlier different agents fired respective shots and killed him.

Some reports stated Bovino was removed from his relation arsenic Border Patrol "commander-at-large" and volition instrumentality to his erstwhile occupation arsenic main patrol cause successful El Centro, California, but Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said helium has "NOT been relieved of his duties" and remains a "key portion of the President's team."

Law enforcement officers basal during a protestation extracurricular SpringHill Suites and Residence Inn by Marriott hotels connected Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, successful Maple Grove, Minnesota. (AP)

Bovino besides reportedly had entree to his societal media accounts stripped implicit his nationalist comments.

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The White House besides sought to region itself from comments by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who called Pretti a "domestic terrorist," and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, who labeled the antheral arsenic a "would-be assassin," with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying she has "not heard the president characterize" Pretti that way.

The shooting of Pretti followed caller unrest implicit the ICE-involved sidesplitting of Renee Nicole Good successful Minneapolis earlier this month.