{"id":2552869,"date":"2026-01-26T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rewarding-anti-ice-violence-in-mn-will-incite-more-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:40:14","slug":"rewarding-anti-ice-violence-in-mn-will-incite-more-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rewarding-anti-ice-violence-in-mn-will-incite-more-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding Anti-ICE Violence In MN Will Incite More Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frewarding-anti-ice-violence-in-mn-will-incite-more-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2552869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-10-biggest-media-hoaxes-of-2025\/\" title=\"Here Are The 10 Biggest Media Hoaxes Of 2025\">federalist opinion piece argues<\/a> that the death of a 37-year-old man during a confrontation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-nominate-texas-sheriff-to-lead-ice\/\" title=\"Biden to Nominate Texas Sheriff to Lead ...\">federal immigration officers<\/a> in Minneapolis reflects a politically charged, hostile environment fostered by Democrats and activist rhetoric that, the author says, has encouraged violence against ICE. The article cites recent attacks on ICE facilities and agents, inflammatory comparisons of ICE to the Gestapo by some Democrats, and reports of activists urging confrontations with federal agencies. It criticizes certain Republicans for publicly backing down or calling for retreating ICE, contending such responses reward disorder and incentivize more violence. The author insists that immigration enforcement should not be dictated by mob tactics or treated as negotiable as of threats, and urges Republicans to stop validating disruptive tactics. The piece is written by Brianna Lyman for The Federalist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 37-year-old man is dead in Minneapolis after a confrontation with federal immigration officers. The details are still unfolding, but one thing is clear: this tragedy did not occur in a vacuum. It happened in an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >extremely hostile political environment created<\/a> by Democratic officials and activists who have spent the past year encouraging opposition &mdash; including getting shot &mdash; to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>But what&rsquo;s even more disturbing is that instead of forcefully condemning the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/07\/dems-react-to-minneapolis-car-ramming-by-inciting-more-anti-ice-violence\/\">behavior<\/a> that led to the fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/08\/any-democrat-accusing-ice-of-murder-is-begging-for-more-vigilante-violence\/\">incident<\/a>, a number of self-described Republicans are rushing to signal retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theblaze\/status\/2015496964616442091?s=20\">wondered<\/a> on CNN whether deporting all illegal aliens is what Americans want, remarking, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s what Americans want.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Stitt added that the president &ldquo;has to answer&rdquo; the question whether ICE should be pulled out of Minnesota and that he needs to &ldquo;bring this to conclusion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lisamurkowski\/status\/2015511814025404442?s=20\">said<\/a> the &ldquo;tragedy and chaos the country is witnessing in Minneapolis is shocking&rdquo; and &ldquo;should raise serious questions within the administration about the adequacy of immigration-enforcement training and the instructions officers are given on carrying out their mission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Former Ohio Gov. and failed presidential hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnKasich\/status\/2015155056752955829?s=20\">John Kasich<\/a> said &ldquo;antics in Minnesota are waking up the whole country. You see it&rsquo;s bothering us, because we don&rsquo;t see justice and we don&rsquo;t see fairness. And somehow the administration just doesn&rsquo;t want to acknowledge this and they think they can just double down on what they&rsquo;re doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The responses aren&rsquo;t merely spineless. They are dangerous because they teach the wrong lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Petti&rsquo;s death, like the shooting of Renee Good, happened in an environment deliberately conditioned by Democrats for violence. Over the past year alone, ICE agents have been physically attacked, firebombed, and ambushed. An ICE facility in Los Angeles was the near victim of a firebombing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/investigations\/fbi-investigating-attempted-firebombing-at-downtown-la-federal-building\/3810653\/\">attack<\/a> in December. ANTIFA targeted an ICE facility in Texas in July. And in September, a man with &ldquo;ANTI-ICE&rdquo; inscribed bullets fatally struck an ICE vehicle, leaving two detainees dead.<\/p>\n<p>Such horrific violence is the result of Democrats&rsquo; and the left having spent years &mdash; particularly the last year &mdash; insisting that immigration enforcement is immoral and implying resistance by any means necessary is justified. <\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/25\/media-dems-wont-apologize-for-comparing-ice-to-gestapo-after-attack-targeting-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared<\/a> &ldquo;every single ICE agent who&rsquo;s engaged in this aggressive overreach&rdquo; to the &ldquo;1930s&rdquo; &mdash; a reference to Nazi Germany. <\/p>\n<p>New York Rep. Dan Goldman compared ICE to the Gestapo, saying they are the &ldquo;Secret police, who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people &hellip; with these Gestapo-like tactics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&rsquo;s own Gov. Tim Walz said &ldquo;Donald Trump&rsquo;s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, grassroots activists &ldquo;&lsquo;have suggested &hellip; what we really need to do is be willing to get shot&rsquo; when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios&rdquo; in a July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/07\/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our own base is telling us that what we&rsquo;re doing is not good enough &hellip; [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,&rdquo; the unidentified lawmaker reportedly said, while another House Democrat told Axios that constituents said &ldquo;civility isn&rsquo;t working&rdquo; and to prepare for &ldquo;violence &hellip; to fight to protect our democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the anti-ICE protests that have led to chaos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/anti-ice-threat-spray-painted-vehicle-believed-used-federal-officers-during-minneapolis-unrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">violence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/minneapolis-pd-arrest-anti-ice-vandal-who-targeted-lake-street-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal activity<\/a> have been met with little pushback from local Democrat leaders.<\/p>\n<p><em>That<\/em> is the environment in which Petti and Good&rsquo;s deaths occurred. <\/p>\n<p>And what makes the moment worse is that some Republicans are validating Democrats&rsquo; efforts to create such an environment.They are reinforcing the idea that enough disorder, threats of violence, actual violence, and mob intimidation produces results &mdash; which is exactly how you incentivize more of it.<\/p>\n<p>No serious country allows its immigration policy to be dictated by emotional mob blackmail and no serious country would even consider telling its law enforcement to stop enforcing federal law because activists might get upset.  And no serious party would ever treat violence or threats of it as a legitimate political tool for shaping policy outcome. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans&rsquo; message will not calm tensions but only escalate them.  If Republicans want less chaos, they need to stop rewarding it. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man killed after clash with federal immigration agents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2552870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-1.55.07-PM-scaled-e1769455344598.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49347,37326,35049],"class_list":["post-2552869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-minnesota-politics","tag-political-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-1.55.07-PM-scaled-e1769455344598.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552873,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552869\/revisions\/2552873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}