Police arrest protesters outside Minnesota hotel believed to house ICE agents

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 7:06 AM, Jan 27, 2026 and last updated 3:09 PM, Jan 27, 2026


Police in suburban Minneapolis took 24 people into custody Monday evening outside a hotel where Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were believed to be staying.

The Maple Grove Police Department said some protesters “engaged in unlawful behavior,” including damaging property and throwing objects at officers. Police ordered the crowd to disperse, and those who remained were detained. Police said charges ranged from unlawful assembly to rioting. Officials said they would provide more details on the type of charges at a later time.

Hotels believed to house ICE agents have been frequent targets of protesters, who use whistles and other noisemakers in an effort to disrupt agents’ sleep. Video from outside the SpringHill Suites showed dozens of people banging pots and pans, beating drums and using other noisemakers.

Maple Grove police said the department has not been involved in immigration enforcement activities. However, local police agencies have responded to anti-ICE protests.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/police-arrest-protesters-outside-minnesota-hotel-believed-to-house-ice-agents

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1. Minnesota State Patrol uses long range acoustic device, first used by military, to disperse Maple Grove protesters

CBS Minnesota, 1/27/26
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-state-patrol-long-range-acoustic-device/

Dozens of protesters were detained Monday night after making a lot of noise outside a hotel where they believed the Border Patrol commander was staying.

Something troopers threatened to use to clear the crowd made a lot of ears perk up. It's called a "long range acoustic device," or LRAD.

Minnesota State Patrol troopers used a powerful sound system first used by the military in Maple Grove, Minnesota, to communicate and disperse noisy protesters.

"The LRAD is like a loudspeaker, but it focuses the sound in a narrow cone, so that if you're inside the cone, it's extremely loud," said retired Marine Colonel Mark Cancian, a senior adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

. . . Police say they arrested 26 people for unlawful assembly and misdemeanor riot charges.

[C Moon]

2. They must be using Minnesota as a test site for all this illegal crap.

[quakerboy]

10. By title, it would appear minnesota and the localities are using it

On their own citizens. .

It gets confusing. Minnesota national guard hands out coffee and donuts, then the Minnesota state police use lrad on protestors to protect the ice officers peaceful sleep, and local PD arrest protestors to make sure ICE can get a good nights rest?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Ironically

I have an uncle who lives in Maple Grove (has been there for almost 30 years). Had visited his first house there almost that long ago but he eventually moved to another one not long after. So when I saw this story, it caught my attention!!

[IcyPeas]

4. Here's some ICE agents mooning and giving the finger to the protesters

I picture these guys to be like Don Jr. and Jesse Watters except with muscles. They are just idiot bros with a junior high school mentality of a 14 year old boy. These are the professionals that Karoline Leavitt talks about?

It's clarifying to see these chodes with their masks down, asses out for the world to see, and as the irredeemable incel losers that they truly are

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-28T03:20:52.507Z

[PatSeg]

6. Now that's professional

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. Maple Grove, eh?

Why am I not surprised?

So, earplugs should be added to your 'protest' pack.

In my opinion, we need a group of deaf protestors to go there. Watch them laugh as the police use that device.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. But they can't arrest, or even question the murder suspects staying at the hotel

[travelingthrulife]

8. Funny how LEO is supposedly all about the people in their communities, yet only

the people are ever arrested, never the federal perpetrators.

They seem to be only slightly better than the Cowards of ICE.

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. The only thing that pisses off the local LEOs

is the fact that they are not the Alpha bully any more.