What’s happening in Minnesota is a real insurrection, far different from the J6 riot, and Trump needs to treat it like one.
The American people are once again witnessing Minneapolis descend into chaos, as left-wing militants hold the city hostage to obstruct law enforcement primarily on behalf of illegal aliens and criminal scammers who have culturally decimated the city.
Amid the rioting and destruction of vehicles and property of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement, a suspected Latin Kings gang member allegedly stole an M16A1 rifle and a suppressor from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) vehicle after federal agents were forced to abandon the scene due to “ensuing civil unrest,” according to the Department of Justice.
“There is a clear, bright line between peaceful protest and lawless destruction,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Jarrad Smith of FBI Minneapolis. “Stealing, damaging, and destroying federal property endangers the community and jeopardizes the safe and peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights. The FBI will never tolerate interference in law enforcement activities. Together with ATF, DEA, and the invaluable partnership of all our federal, state, and local law enforcement allies, FBI Minneapolis will ensure public safety and that those engaging in violent and destructive behavior will be identified and will face justice.”
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis rioters successfully BROKE OPEN a weapons locker in a federal vehicle and STOLE A RIFLE and ammunition before fleeing
I captured the thief’s face and license plate on the getaway vehicle.
PLEASE SHARE and HELP IDENTIFY this POS.
I have forwarded this… pic.twitter.com/7rwfIsN7v6
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 15, 2026
All the evidence indicates that an insurrection is taking place in Minneapolis. Not like the fake one on Jan. 6, 2021; this one has real violence, real obstruction of official proceedings, real consequences, and actual intent.
This one has actual institutional support from members of Congress, governors, mayors, and possibly state and local police officers — though it is unclear if those officers are simply being held hostage by their political leadership, as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested Thursday.
Minneapolis and other major American cities have been overrun before, and it’s hard to trust that the tools currently at the disposal of law enforcement are enough to reestablish order and punish the militants using violence to obstruct federal law enforcement operations.
If law enforcement does have the tools necessary, the question then is, what is taking so long? As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood queried, “How much worse does Minneapolis have to get before Trump shuts down leftist lawlessness?”
President Donald Trump himself has considered using the Insurrection Act, initially seeming to target the institutional support for the agitators, stating, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law & stop the professional agitators & 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.”
On Friday, Trump seemed to add the rioters themselves to the group of insurrectionists, posting to social media, “In Minnesota, the Troublemakers, Agitators, and Insurrectionists are, in many cases, highly paid professionals. The Governor and Mayor don’t know what to do, they have totally lost control, and [are] currently being rendered, USELESS! If, and when, I am forced to act, it will be solved, QUICKLY and EFFECTIVELY!”