Minneapolis Emergency Management Director: ICE Makes People ‘Afraid to Go to Doctor’

A person is arrested amid protests following a shooting on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis
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Minneapolis Emergency Management Director Rachel Sayre said during a press conference adressing the federal agent-involved shooting that the continued presence of ICE makes people “afraid to even go to the doctor.”

Breitbart News reported ICE was carrying out an operation when approached by a man who was armed with a 9mm handgun. Breitbart also noted DHS released a statement saying the armed man who was shot and killed in Minneapolis “wanted to…massacre law enforcement.”

Minneapolis Emergency Management Director Rachel Sayre decried the continued presence of ICE in her city.

FOX 5 quoted Sayre saying, “Many [of] our Minneapolis residents, my neighbors, my friends, my community members, are ceasing participation in public life, afraid to even go to the doctor.”

She also claimed people are “afraid to go outside, so they can’t earn a living…[and] kids are forced out of school.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He holds a PhD in Military History with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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