FBI Asks Agents to Travel to Minneapolis for Temporary Duty

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Source: Bloomberg

January 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM EST
Updated on January 18, 2026 at 2:35 AM EST


The FBI is asking agents across the US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation. The bureau in recent days sent messages to agents nationwide seeking volunteers to temporarily transfer to the city, the people said. The messages didn’t specifically reference the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests that have escalated in Minneapolis and didn’t detail the assignment, the people said.

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have already been increasing their presence in Minneapolis. The city has become a focal point of anti-ICE protests since an officer shot and killed a woman, Renee Good, on Jan. 7 while she was in her car.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the FBI would ask agents who volunteered to travel to Minneapolis to do. FBI agents have traditionally focused on national security-related tasks such as counter-terrorism, organized crime and high-profile violent offences.

FBI Director Kash Patel and US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday visited Minneapolis, according to a post shared on Patel’s X account. Patel said in the post that the FBI was “cracking down on violent rioters and investigating the funding networks supporting the criminal actors with multiple arrests already.” The FBI declined to comment.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-18/fbi-asks-agents-to-voluntarily-travel-to-minneapolis

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[Sweet Rosie Red]

1. In other words,

they will be rummaging through homes, offices and cars at random, issuing subpoenas, starting rumors and manufacturing “evidence” to support whatever story the delusional orange turd and his evil a**holes want to burble about next.

Epstein!

[duckworth969]

2. Prodding and poking to see what they can find

Learning as they go.

Minneapolis is Miller’s test case.

They’re stupid people. But they’re brutes with unchecked power.

[RockCreek]

3. And they won't be doing their actual jobs. Creating opportunities for crime, etc (which is good for Krasnov's buddies)

Quote from above. Thus is what will be neglected: "FBI agents have traditionally focused on national security-related tasks such as counter-terrorism, organized crime and high-profile violent offences."

[twodogsbarking]

4. Is anyone protecting us from the real threats while government agencies are now all on Abuse Detail?

nope.