{"id":376668,"date":"2026-01-18T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376668\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:48:07","slug":"around-1500-soldiers-on-standby-for-deployment-to-minneapolis-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376668\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"

The soldiers are part of the 11th Airborne Division in Fort Wainwright, the official added.<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act<\/a>, a rarely-used law that allows active-duty military personnel to be deployed for law enforcement duties inside the US.<\/p>\n

It comes as a US federal judge issued an order limiting the crowd control tactics that can used by ICE agents towards “peaceful and unobstructive” protesters in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Judge Katherine Menendez earlier ruled that federal agents cannot arrest or pepper spray peaceful demonstrations<\/a>, including those monitoring or observing ICE agents. <\/p>\n

The state’s National Guard has been mobilised and placed on alert by Governor Tim Walz, and other law enforcement officers were deployed to Minneapolis ahead of the anti-ICE demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Recent protests in the city were sparked by widespread action by ICE in the city, and follow Good’s death on 7 January.<\/p>\n

City leaders said Good was there as a legal observer of ICE activity.<\/p>\n

But the Trump administration has called her a “domestic terrorist”.<\/p>\n

Good’s death sparked protests across the country, with many people holding signs that read “Justice for Renee”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The soldiers are part of the 11th Airborne Division in Fort Wainwright, the official added. Last week, Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-376668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}