Activists Ramp Up the Chaos in Minneapolis

Things have never really settled down in Minneapolis where activists have been following ICE agents for weeks. However, things seemed to be getting a little more chaotic today, leading to several scuffles. It started with confrontations at a Speedway gas station where a group of agents had stopped for some snacks. [Some NSFW language in the clips below.]

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino making a Slim Jim stop at a gas station.

Totally composed while surrounded by hundreds of protestors screaming profanities. pic.twitter.com/VajbNBSZDQ

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 21, 2026

Activists who had been following them swarmed the gas station:

NOW: Commander Bovino and the CBP team are Confronted by Anti-ICE Protesters in Minneapolis – Nicollet Avenue

Video by @noturtlesoup17 @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/tchMQjkHKA

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 21, 2026

Bovino apparently had to leave the store.

🚨Protestors mob Commander Bovino and dump a bag of chips on his head and shoulders.

Multiple minor clashes ensued. 20-30 cars have been following Bovino’s convoy for roughly 2 hours.

Agents have been throwing peace signs out the window while protestors flip them off. pic.twitter.com/uhdl5COIlq

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 21, 2026

Someone who works at the Speedway came out and said the store would not serve ICE agents and told them to leave.

NOW: “We do NOT support ICE, get off of our property” – Commander Bovino and CBP Agents are refused entry to Minneapolis Speedway gas station

Video by @noturtlesoup17 @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/APNMS3acQn

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 21, 2026

We’ve seen this kind of thing before when a hotel canceled reservations for ICE agents. That didn’t end well for the hotel. Already, people are asking if 7-Eleven, which owns Speedway, supports this kind of thing.

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and 7-Eleven, which operates Speedway, for additional information and comment. 

The Speedway location on Portland Avenue declined to provide additional information when contacted by Newsweek.

Speedway gas stations are not franchised, they are all corporate. So I suspect the guy seen in the video above is about to get his 2-week notice and the company will be issuing a statement of apology. But we’ll see.

There were some scuffles on the edge of the gas station property and at least on protester got pepper sprayed:

NOW: Tear Gas and Green smoke released after clashes, pepper spray and Detainement of Anti ICE Protesters by CBP and Bovino in Minneapolis at an additional Speedway gas station stop

Video by @noturtlesoup17 @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/zch3ZE5UDd

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 21, 2026

When the agents tried to leave the gas station they found some of their vehicles surrounded with protesters. This led to them using tear gas and scuffling with some individuals. Note one of the activists shouting, “You going to smile on your execution day?!” Progressives have a vivid fantasy life.

MINNEAPOLIS CHAOS: A @FoxNews photographer captures a tense moment in the streets of Minneapolis today. It happened when BP Chief Bovino and his convoy were attempting to leave a gas station & found themselves surrounded by protesters who apparently tried to block federal… pic.twitter.com/bUQcMthKzF

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) January 21, 2026

In a clip from another angle, there’s a guy screaming “You’ll hang for this!” It might even be the same guy. Hard to tell. But by far the most common shout is “Nazi!” 

NOW: Tear Gas and Green smoke released after clashes, pepper spray and Detainement of Anti ICE Protesters by CBP and Bovino in Minneapolis at an additional Speedway gas station stop

Video by @noturtlesoup17 @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/zch3ZE5UDd

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) January 21, 2026

That seems to be all for now, but it’s not even dark yet. Finally, the Trump administration seems to be on the verge of sending in troops.

The Pentagon has ordered several hundred active-duty military police troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota in the event that President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, according to a senior U.S. official.

The alert, which was described as precautionary, comes on top of a similar order issued recently to 1,500 infantry soldiers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska and as many as 200 Texas National Guard troops.

Maybe the activists want that to happen. It would help justify their own extremism. Maybe that’s why they’re pushing so hard.

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