Minneapolis Public Schools announced Wednesday night that all classes and activities were canceled for the rest of the week and that students would not have to do ‘e-learning’ at home while schools are closed.
Protests are expected in the coming days after a woman driver was shot and killed by a federal officer when she allegedly tried to run him over during a protest against ICE in a Minneapolis residential neighborhood Wednesday morning.
The Department of Homeland Security has surged up to 2,000 federal agents into Minnesota this week for immigration enforcement and investigations into billions of dollars in fraud involving mainly Somali immigrants ripping off federally funded Medicaid and other welfare programs.
“We surged the last 48 hours. We’ve arrested hundreds and hundreds of dangerous criminals off the streets in Minnesota, and people that are a part of this fraud scheme.” @Sec_Noem
2,000 DHS law enforcement officers have been deployed to the Twin Cities to arrests fraudsters,… pic.twitter.com/mvuu9KfIiC
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 7, 2026
MPS statement:
No school Jan. 8-9 due to safety concerns
Out of an abundance of caution, there will be no school on Thursday, Jan. 8 and Friday, Jan. 9 due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city. All MPS-sponsored programs, activities, athletics and Community Education classes, including adult education, will be canceled. The district will not move to e-learning because that is only allowable for severe weather.
MPS will continue collaborating with the City of Minneapolis and other partners on emergency preparedness and response.
Out of an abundance of caution, there will be no school on Thursday, January 8, 2026 and Friday, January 9, 2026 due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city.
The District will not move to e-learning as that is only allowable for severe weather. School… pic.twitter.com/IGolgAZEV9
— Minneapolis Public Schools (@MPS_News) January 8, 2026
KSTP reported an elementary school locked down Wednesday due to the ICE shooting while a high school reportedly had ICE agents on school property (excerpt):
Green Central Elementary School in south Minneapolis went into lockdown after the ICE shooting just a few blocks away.
…Apparent ICE agents were at a Minneapolis high school on Wednesday after federal agents shot and killed a woman earlier in the day.
A Roosevelt High School student told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that ICE agents pulled up to the entrance sometime during Wednesday afternoon, then blocked portions of the road.
Roosevelt High School is about three miles away from the intersection of 34th Street and Portland Avenue, where federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday morning.
…The student noted that school administrators and staff were trying to get ICE off school property while ushering students and people away from the crowd.
Some students were pepper-sprayed during the incident, the student added. A video from the scene shows a federal agent deploying pepper spray into a crowd.
MPR News reported and published photos on the Roosevelt High School incident:
4:26 p.m. | Border Patrol agents show up at Minneapolis Roosevelt High https://t.co/SDu4LRE0g4 official from Roosevelt HS told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came onto school property during dismissal Wed. & began tackling people
— Elizabeth Shockman, MPR News pic.twitter.com/4hQKYgOac0— Jerald Wolkoff (@JeraldWolkoff) January 8, 2026
MPR excerpt (more photos at link):
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” said a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” the official added. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
The school leader said armed officers with apparent Border Patrol insignia on their uniforms arrived at the school in several SUV vehicles during dismissal on Wednesday afternoon. They broke out the window of a vehicle.
“There’s a car that got hit. I don’t know how it got hit. They broke out the window,” the school official said. “Then different Neighborhood Watch, people, everybody, people, the staff in the school came out. And then they started coming on the property of the school and pushing people and tackling people and shooting pepper spray and pepper balls. And they handcuffed two of our employees.”
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