{"id":435191,"date":"2026-01-28T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435191\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:32:07","slug":"live-trump-warns-minneapolis-mayor-is-playing-with-fire-over-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/435191\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Trump warns Minneapolis mayor is ‘playing with fire’ over immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

What it was like in the room when a man threw a substance on Omarpublished at 15:33 GMT<\/p>\n

15:33 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Ana Faguy
Reporting from Minneapolis<\/p>\n

We travelled to north Minneapolis last night to hear Ilhan Omar
\nspeak about the ongoing federal immigration operation in her city. <\/p>\n

We wanted to hear from residents in the area and Omar about how
\nthey were feeling just days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents. <\/p>\n

In the basement where her town hall was happening, it was a sauna.
\nThey couldn’t recalibrate the heat, so it was blasting. There were 100 or so
\npeople there to listen to their congresswoman, and a lot of press. <\/p>\n

For the first chunk of the event, it was a standard town hall, local officials talked about trash pickup. When Omar took the podium,
\nmuch of her remarks centred on the presence of ICE in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n

It was just after she mentioned wanting the removal of Homeland Security
\nSecretary Kristi Noem when a man in a coat and burgundy shirt
\ncharged toward her. <\/p>\n

It was a moment of chaos as we all realised what was happening.
\nThe man shouted but we couldn’t make out the words.<\/p>\n

Those towards the front of the room smelt the sour, orange-coloured
\nliquid that Minneapolis police said the suspect sprayed at her.<\/p>\n

As police and Omar’s security carried him away, he shouted “she’s
\npitting us against each other”. <\/p>\n

Omar continued her remarks, but the sudden incident – and the
\nlingering tension in the city – was still at the front of everyone’s
\nminds.<\/p>\n

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, has been charged with third-degree assault and is being held in custody, the local sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What it was like in the room when a man threw a substance on Omarpublished at 15:33 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-435191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}