The Pentagon has reportedly ordered hundreds of additional active-duty U.S. soldiers to gear up for potential deployment to Minneapolis.
According to MS Now, a prepare-to-deploy order was issued on Tuesday for members of an Army military police brigade stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It comes days after the Pentagon issued a similar order for two battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division. Those soldiers, who are stationed in Alaska, specialize in cold weather and winter operations.
When asked for comment, a Pentagon official told the outlet: “We have nothing to announce at this time, and any tip about this is pre-decisional.”
Unrest in Minnesota has only intensified in the weeks since ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis.
Video of the deadly shooting shows an officer approaching an SUV stopped in the middle of the road, then demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. At that point, the vehicle begins to move forward and a different ICE officer pulls out his weapon and immediately fires off several rounds at close range.
Good, a mother and poet, was struck four times. She died a short time later.
Following the fatal confrontation, two distinct narratives began to emerge.
According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Ross was only defending himself from Good, who “weaponized her car” in a “domestic terror attack” against federal agents.
President Trump, meanwhile, called Good “very disorderly” in a post on his own platform Truth Social, alleging she “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
Trump also threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a law dating back to the 1790s, that would allow him to send federal troops into Minneapolis.
State and city officials, meanwhile, have said the massive influx of ICE officers in Minnesota, deployed to carryout Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, are to blame for the unrest.