Protester Watches Federal Officers Pin Down Her Husband: 'We Were Just Running Away From The Gas'
Pocharapon Neammanee
Sat, January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM UTC
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A woman at the scene of an intense Minneapolis protest Saturday screamed in distress watching her husband get piled on by multiple federal officers as the couple attempted to escape the tear gas.
“I’m a United States citizen! You’re gonna kill me! Is that what you want?” the man can be heard yelling in the video.
Law enforcement and protesters swarmed to a nearby intersection following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis resident earlier that day. The Department of Homeland Security alleged the man was armed and “violently resisted.” Minnesota officials say the man was a legal gun owner with a permit to carry.
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Video of the ensuing protests taken by MS NOW shows federal officers deploying chemical irritants at a crowd of protesters in the aftermath of the shooting, walking towards the fleeing crowd with weapons drawn. A man in the crowd can be seen surrounded and pinned to the ground by multiple armed officers, yelling, “I’ve done nothing wrong!” He can also be heard yelling, “I’m a United States citizen!” and “You want to kill me?”
Another video taken by Fox News shows a woman who identified herself as the man’s wife, crying and being comforted by a bystander.
“We were just running away from the gas. That’s all we were doing,” the woman said. “He’s being arrested by ICE.”
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The shooting and heated protest comes weeks after Renee Nicole Good was gunned down by a federal immigration officer.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey urged President Donald Trump to remove federal forces from his city Saturday.
“The mass militarized force, unidentified agents, that is what weakens our country,” Frey said.