Anti-ICE protesters attack Minneapolis hotel where they suspected federal agents were staying

Anti-ICE protesters attacked a Minneapolis hotel where they suspected federal agents were staying, throwing items at people inside and smashing windows.The large crowd on Sunday night went to the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis, where they shoved and hurled objects at a Minneapolis Police Department officer and others inside the lobby, and attempted to push their way in, the New York Post reported. People inside used two large vending machines to block the demonstrators.
“We’re all locals, it’s all locals!” one man shouted while trying to ward off the protesters. “You guys are doing this for no reason.”
The crowd banged on trash cans, slammed snow shovels, blew whistles, stomped, yelled, and shone strobe lights on the hotel’s facade to try to disturb the federal officers whom they believed were sleeping inside.
Several people smashed hotel windows and scrawled “ICE OUT,” “F-CK ICE,” and “ICE KILLS” across its facade.
Later, heavily armed federal agents arrived in an armored vehicle, quickly deploying tear gas and flash-bangs to disperse the crowd. At least two people were arrested.
“The Minnesota State Patrol and [Department of Natural Resources] were called to assist Minneapolis police with damage to hotel property at Home2 Suites Hotel on University Avenue,” the Minnesota Department of Public Safety posted on X. “While they collaboratively worked to encircle the group for arrests because the demonstration was not peaceful, federal agents arrived without communication and deployed chemical irritants, clearing the group. The State Patrol and DNR are no longer on scene.”
It was unclear if any federal agents were actually staying at the hotel. 
The attack on the hotel occurred a day after protester Alex Pretti, 37, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Pretti, who was an ICU nurse who worked for a veterans’ hospital, was pinned to the ground by a group of federal officers “violently resisting,” according to Trump administration officials. 
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Pretti rushed at the agents with a gun in hand, but videos taken by bystanders appear to only show him holding his phone.
One of the shooting appears to show an agent removing a pistol from Pretti’s waistband seconds before 10 gunshots are fired, killing him. Pretti had a permit and was legally allowed to conceal carry.

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