'Mob mentality' endangers officers amid anti-ICE unrest and chaos in Minneapolis, retired cops warn

Veteran instrumentality enforcement leaders are informing that Minneapolis is facing a unsafe breakdown successful nationalist bid arsenic mob violence, governmental paralysis and fractured policing collide.

Former LAPD detective Moses Castillo, who served during the Los Angeles riots, said existent ICE operations are producing chaos alternatively of nationalist safety.

"This is creating much mayhem than results," Castillo said, informing that agents are being pushed into nationalist interaction situations they are not trained for. He predicted that without amended coordination, "someone is going to get wounded oregon killed by affable fire."

Castillo said that adjacent if officer-involved shootings are aboriginal ruled legally justified nether Graham v. Connor, mediocre tactics tin inactive inflame tensions and escalate danger. He added that legality unsocial nary longer calms nationalist outrage erstwhile operations look indiscriminate.

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Federal agents woody with agitators extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected January 14, 2026. (Jamie Vera/Fox News)

The warnings travel amid escalating unrest successful Minneapolis pursuing caller deadly encounters involving national migration agents during enforcement operations, which sparked ample assemblage responses and heightened tensions crossed parts of the city.

Demonstrators person taken to the streets successful effect to the shootings, accusing national authorities of excessive force, portion instrumentality enforcement officials pass that misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric person fueled choler and confrontations.

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced helium is deploying Border Czar Tom Homan to Minnesota arsenic ICE operations look what helium described arsenic convulsive chaos, signaling accrued national engagement arsenic officials enactment to stabilize the concern and reconstruct order.

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Agitators clash with instrumentality enforcement extracurricular an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) installation arsenic they effort to artifact national agents and vehicles from leaving during demonstrations against ICE pursuing the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old pistillate by a U.S. migration agent, successful Minneapolis, United States, connected January 8, 2026. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Those concerns were echoed by Wounded Blue laminitis and retired constabulary lieutenant Randy Sutton, who precocious spent respective days successful Minneapolis supporting officers.

"What we are seeing is mob mentality connected a standard that is perfectly unprecedented," Sutton said. "You person hundreds and adjacent thousands of radical surrounding instrumentality enforcement officers who are simply doing their jobs."

Sutton said the unit is being enabled by governmental leadership, arguing that officers person efficaciously been abandoned.

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"The governor, the politician and the metropolis enactment person abdicated their work for nationalist safety," Sutton said. "That empowers the mob and makes this incredibly dangerous."

He pointed to a caller incidental successful which an ICE serviceman had his digit bitten disconnected during an attack, calling it grounds that unit against instrumentality enforcement has go normalized.

"If you tin rationalize biting the digit disconnected a national officer, determination is thing radically wrong," Sutton said.

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Sutton said Minneapolis policing has collapsed since the 2020 unrest, noting the metropolis is authorized for astir 900 officers but present has astir 550, with lone astir 265 patrol officers disposable to constabulary the full city.

"Effective policing has ended successful the metropolis of Minneapolis," Sutton said. "They cannot adjacent grip their calls for service."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Minneapolis Police Department for comment. 

According to Sutton, national agents are present being pushed into volatile crowd-control roles without due grooming oregon coordination due to the fact that section constabulary person been ordered to basal down.

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A protester confronts a Homeland Security serviceman during a protestation against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursuing a fatal shooting by an ICE cause successful Minneapolis connected Jan. 11. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"These agents are not thoroughfare cops," Sutton said. "They are not trained to woody with monolithic crowds, and determination is nary unified command."

Sutton described terrible intelligence strain among Minneapolis officers, saying galore are suffering from what instrumentality enforcement calls motivation injury.

"I person seldom seen an full constabulary section with the thousand-yard stare," helium said. "They cognize what they’re expected to do, and they’re being prevented from doing it."

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Sutton besides accused Minnesota leaders of inflaming tensions by publically labeling caller officer-involved shootings arsenic murders earlier investigations were completed.

"To impeach officers of execution earlier the facts are known is irresponsible," Sutton said. "It foments violence, hatred and distrust."

Both Sutton and Castillo warned the unrest appears highly organized, pointing to coordinated behavior, quality gathering and extracurricular funding.

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Castillo said the solution requires leadership, coordination and a instrumentality to focused enforcement that prioritizes convulsive transgression offenders implicit wide thoroughfare operations that escalate confrontation.

Sutton warned that without those changes, the concern successful Minneapolis remains highly unstable.

"This is simply a highly flammable situation," Sutton said. "Everyone that wears a badge is successful danger."

He said the lack of unified enactment and wide bid has near officers exposed and the nationalist astatine risk, with nary wide way to de-escalation.

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Law enforcement leaders pass that unless tactics and enactment change, Minneapolis could spot further unit arsenic tensions proceed to rise.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to ICE, the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection.