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2026.01.26 01:30 GMT+8

Trump threatens to impose Insurrection Act against protesters

Updated 2026.01.26 01:30 GMT+8
Owen Fairclough

Protests over the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis have intensified tensions over federal immigration enforcement. President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used law allowing military deployment in civil unrest as demonstrations and resistance grow statewide.

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