A noise demonstration held outside of Home2 Suites by Hilton led to arrests and deployment of flares and tear gas on the crowd outside, according to video analyzed by the Minnesota Daily. For about an hour, over 40 police officers secured University Ave SE in front of the hotel.
As of 11 p.m., University Ave SE is no longer blocked off by police.
Around 9:30 p.m., video and photo footage collected from bystanders show multiple buses and vans full of police in high visibility vests parked in the nearby Discovery Lot on 2535 4th St. SE.
At around 9:50 p.m., sirens can be heard as a column of police approach from the east. A couple of minutes later, tear gas was set off in the vicinity of the protestors and the perimeter was secured.
The demonstration was in response to allegations of ICE agents staying at the hotel located on University Avenue. It remains unclear who organized the protest, with flyers anonymously submitted to the Twin Cities Ungovernables Instagram page.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
SGEagan
Jan 27, 2026 at 7:02 am
@Mark, I understand your anger, but you shouldn’t allow it to cloud your thinking. Cops protecting a hotel are doing their job, and it is unfair to compare them to the ICE agents who killed Good and Pretti.
And while it makes you feel good that ICE agents might lose sleep, their poor decision making only gets WORSE if they are sleep deprived.
TA
Jan 26, 2026 at 6:33 pm
Mark – you’re significantly less intelligent than you imagine .
Mark
Jan 26, 2026 at 10:15 am
Twin Cities cops don’t get a pass. Before this they’ve been mostly staying away from the conflict, but if they protect the treasonous, murdering feds then they are just as guilty. If they had just let the protest continue nothing bad would have happened, except maybe some killers losing sleep.
SGEagan
Jan 26, 2026 at 10:13 am
First of all, I am not pro-ICE. I think that both of the shootings were unjust.
Having said that, disrupting the sleep of ICE agents will only serve to impair their judgement and induce them to do stupid things during their working hours. They’ve done enough stupid things already.
Protest ICE when they are “on the clock”. I know folks are angry, justifiably so. But don’t let your anger make you do stupid things, too. It is imperative that protestors maintain the moral high ground.
PJ
Jan 26, 2026 at 8:24 am
Noise demonstration? These insurrectionist shot fireworks at hotel windows, tossed ice blocks at police and security and broke windows and damaged the hotel signage.
Billie Joe
Jan 26, 2026 at 4:30 am
Finally, the Minneapolis police are doing their job—some common sense, at last. But it comes too late for Alex Pretti. I warned about exactly this in my comment in the Daily on January 8, in “Minnesotans gather at vigil to honor Renee Good.” I wrote: “Minneapolis policy prevented our city police department from cooperating with ICE, a decision that effectively eliminated a critical buffer between federal law enforcement and the local community. The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good illustrates just how irresponsible this policy is. Had local officers—who know our streets and community—been involved, they could have worked to deescalate the situation.” That simple advice was ignored. Let’s remember: alongside normal outraged citizens, we have an assortment of anarchists, socialists, SDS, keffiyah-wearers and other fringe groups doing their utmost to foment dangerous confrontations. Now, we are mourning Alex Pretti. Chalk one more up to our foolish, failed leadership—Walz, Frey, Fateh, and the City Council. People, please wake up!