Irony: ICE Incident At One Epicenter of Welfare Fraud

As the competing narratives, which both appear to be somewhat deceptive, develop around the ICE shooting that happened in Minneapolis yesterday, some people have noticed an interesting and very telling coincidence. 

The shooting take place in an area absolutely filled with likely fraudulent businesses, including another one owned by the proprietor of the Quality Learing Center, and hundreds of health care providers registered in buildings not much larger than your average McMansion. 

OH MY GOD:

2628 Nicollet is just three doors down from the ICE shooting.

THREE daycare centers are tied to this address.

Owner’s name: Siman Aden

Siman Aden is also owner of the “Quality Learing Center” that was made famous by @nickshirleyy

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 😂😂😂 https://t.co/ymQ78v9eW2 pic.twitter.com/10rtAL5bkz

— Governor Dill (@TheGreenOldDill) January 24, 2026

I am still developing an opinion about the shooting that happened yesterday, more sophisticated than “This sort of thing was inevitable given the hundreds of daily interactions between armed federal officers and ‘protesters’ who are assaulting them. The situation appears to be something much less than a terrorist attack, as Homeland Security initially suggested, and a lot more than what the protesters have been claiming, which is a political assassination. 

To me, it looks like an armed man stupidly taunted federal agents, resisted arrest, and got shot in an FAFO moment. He almost certainly wasn’t intending to shoot anybody, but officers had every reason to worry that he might. A series of mistakes likely led to a fatal outcome. 

But whatever. We will eventually have more information, and unfortunately, no consensus on what happened. Two screens and edits of one movie. 

This is happening every time I research anything there. Every building has multiple fraudsters. Every fraudster operates at multiple addresses. Every random name has a license for something fishy, a daycare/adult care/transport biz/rehab, etc.

This is especially true when…

— A Strange Loop 🧭✴️ (@Recursion_Agent) January 25, 2026

But where the shooting took place is an important part of the story, if only accidentally, because the real reason why Walz and Frey are egging the protests on and escalating the rhetoric is to drive the federal government out of Minnesota and to avoid responsibility for tens of billions of dollars of fraud, and it turns out that Nicollet Avenue is filled with fraudulent welfare-consuming companies. 

Right next to the shooting there is an approximately 10,000 square foot building with 184 healthcare providers registered, which seems just a bit implausible, as well as several other businesses. 

Took a look, and OMG… 184 NPIs at 2614 Nicollet.

That’s just health care providers. Not including child care. And none of them are on an exclusion list. @DOGE_HHS https://t.co/lgyHgzthIg pic.twitter.com/OhXu2DMpBj

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 24, 2026

The building is only 11,000 sq ft.

How many of these are taking federal dollars and are shell businesses for perpetrating fraud?

No wonder ICE was there.

3/3 pic.twitter.com/bUPZCrmSn6

— Governor Dill (@TheGreenOldDill) January 24, 2026

As you might imagine, the list is filled with Somali names, and of course, you have the Quality Learing Center guy right in the middle of it. 

The Border Patrol wasn’t even looking into any of this. They were just looking for a guy who assaulted people and had a deportation order. But the block that is currently an autonomous zone occupied by protesters after the shooting also happens to be filled with Somali fraud businesses. 

Incredible. The very first fraudulent Minneapolis business called out in the thread below is Smart Therapy Center. This is the same autism center I posted about a few weeks ago that made political contributions to a WA state candidate!

So fascinating to see these dots connect. https://t.co/swSNRWmtRs pic.twitter.com/lXNwYCXtlm

— Kristen Mag (@kristenmag) January 25, 2026

I assume that it is a coincidence that the conflict happened here, but it is a reminder that you can’t throw a stone without hitting a building associated with the massive fraud scheme here in Minnesota. And both Walz and Frey are very much at the center of that fraud. 

The location address is the center of a fraud investigation

I guess someone is upset

Smart Therapy LLC an autism treatment provider in Minneapolis, founded in 2019 by Asha Farhan Hassan. As of late 2025, the org & owner in a major fed investigation of Medicaid/ food fraud pic.twitter.com/G5x1KeWOTE

— Who cares (@Whocaresmllg) January 24, 2026

Before all this chaos erupted, the entire country had its eyes on the fraud; now everybody is angry about ICE. 

That’s how Frey and Walz want it. 

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