Within hours of a Minnesota protester being fatally shot after allegedly trying to run over ICE agents, a well-known network of far-left demonstrators was mobilized across the country for causes ranging from communism to climate change.
The unidentified woman, who Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said was 37 years old, was killed behind the wheel of her car just after 11 a.m. ET. Federal authorities said she tried to persuade ICE agents who were part of a 2,000-strong team sent to the Twin Cities to round up and deport illegal immigrant criminals.
“I just watched the clip of the event that took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s horrible to watch,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The screaming woman was clearly a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was highly disorderly, obstructive and resistant, who then violently, wantonly and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who appears to have shot her in self-defense.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the woman was shot in the head and later pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center.
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Almost immediately, groups from causes as diverse as socialism, communism, climate change, Palestinian rights and the Democratic Party launched seemingly coordinated protests online and in American streets, using similar language. The efforts by left-wing groups with no apparent shared cause mirrored the weekend’s protests, when many of the same groups took action in the hours after the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
“It is the same network of people that has thousands of Americans blocking the streets, waving communist and terrorist flags, and attacking law enforcement and innocents,” said Brandy Shufutinsky, director of the Education and National Security Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “They are fueling the grievance industry they have built.”
Members of law enforcement work at the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal operations on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)
While authorities said an investigation was underway, protest groups quickly labeled the killing a homicide. A sentiment analysis of relevant social media posts by left-wing groups found that the graphic and emotional language used in the posts was intended to provoke moral outrage and mobilize people to take to the streets. For example, messages told people to “take to the streets now,” “take to the streets,” and “get to the White House as quickly as possible.”
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“The state is the enemy, the state is the killer! Resistance is justified,” wrote Fight for a Future, an organization that openly advocates communism.
At 1:24 p.m., the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a fixture in left-wing protests, announced an “emergency meeting” in Foley Square in New York City for Thursday. The meeting was also promoted by a group calling itself “NYC ICE Watch.”
Indivisible, the Democratic Party-aligned nonprofit and PAC that has been at the forefront of protests against Tesla and the Trump administration, shared on Instagram a photo of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees ICE, with two Xs over the eyes, a symbol often used to portray someone as dead.
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“Kristi Noem, get out of NYC now,” the message read in both English and Spanish. The post was shared by 50501, a newly formed organization that played a leading role in the #NoKings protest against President Trump.
“EMERGENCY ALARM. THIS IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK MOMENT!” wrote 50551 on Instagram at 11:50 am
Indivisible’s post echoed the language of Frey, who moments earlier had called for ICE to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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At 2:44 p.m., Refuse Fascism, a socialist organization active in protests against Israel and the Trump administration, posted a message on Instagram decrying the incident.
‘From Venezuela to the streets of Minneapolis, the trump card [sic] the regime murders and demonizes entire peoples and countries without any pretense of the rule of law,” the group wrote.
At 3:33 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Columbus, Ohio, called for an “emergency protest from Columbus to Minneapolis.”
“ICE out! ICE killed a legal observer in Minneapolis,” the Instagram post read. “We fight back!”
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At 3:06 p.m., the Palestinian Youth Movement, which organized campus protests following the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, spoke up.
“The time is right and resist now (sic),” the group posted on Instagram.
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