ICE agent attacked with shovels by 3 illegal aliens

Thursday, January 15, 2026

A federal officer has shot a man in the leg in the US city of Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel as he tried to make an arrest, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says. In a statement on X, the DHS said Wednesday's shooting happened after a car chase involving a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. It ended in a crash and the driver was joined by two more people who all attacked the officer, it said. DHS said the man who was shot was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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I'm not sure what you were expecting.

As I've said more than once, I'm surprised given their behavior that some ICE haven't been killed.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 06:01 PM | Reply

This is a better detailed account of what happened:

" The three individuals who ambushed and violently attacked an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer during a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis on Wednesday were all illegal immigrants from Venezuela who entered the country under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.

Agents were attempting to arrest Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis when he fled the scene in his vehicle, crashed into a parked car and fled on foot, officials said. The agent pursued Sosa-Celis on foot and was able to catch up to him, at which point he began to resist arrest and violently assault the officer.

As the pair struggled on the ground, two more illegal immigrants came out of a nearby apartment and attacked the agent with a snow shovel and a broom handle, DHS said. The ambush allowed Sosa-Celis to escape restraint, at which point he too began striking the officer with either a shovel or a broom stick."

www.nationalreview.com

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-15 06:01 PM | Reply

You people bitch and moan about living in the world you're creating.

Which is interesting, because you know you're going to make it that much worse.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 06:05 PM | Reply

The three individuals who ambushed and violently attacked an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer during a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis on Wednesday were all illegal immigrants from Venezuela who entered the country under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe anything the DHS under Trump says. I will wait and see what the courts say, if trump doesn't just send this guy to CECOT.

I am glad, however, that the officer is okay and that no one was killed.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 06:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Research consistently shows that immigrants, including undocumented individuals, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. This trend has been documented across various types of offenses and has remained consistent for decades.

Key Findings on Crime Rates

Incarceration Rates: According to studies through 2025, native-born Americans are roughly 267% more likely to be incarcerated by age 33 than immigrants. In 2023, the incarceration rate for native-born citizens was 1,221 per 100,000, while it was 613 for undocumented immigrants and 319 for legal immigrants.

Violent Crime: In Texas - the only state that systematically tracks criminal history by immigration status - undocumented immigrants are arrested for violent and drug crimes at less than half the rate of native-born citizens.

Homicide: Data from 2012 to 2018 in Texas showed a total homicide arrest rate of 4.8 per 100,000 for U.S.-born citizens compared to 1.9 per 100,000 for undocumented immigrants."

www.google.com

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Cherry picking anecdotes has never been good evidence; anecdotes are stories, not data.

But Trump claims that immigrants are, Eating the Cats!... so that's what Trumpers like the OP buh-lieve.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 06:08 PM | Reply

No reason to believe the story unless there's video of it. DHS is been proven to have repeatedly lied about incidents involving agents.

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-01-15 06:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Agents were attempting to arrest Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis when he fled the scene in his vehicle,"

What a perfectly Gestapo way to try to apprehend somebody who is obviously not engaged in any criminal activity, but you can probably guess is going to not want to get apprehended by the Gestapo if he has the option of simply hitting the gas.

ICE created circumstances here which endangered the public.

Why not just wait until he gets home or gets to work?

Trump has ordered ICE to escalate violence every chance they get.
And he doesn't care if any innocent bystanders get hurt.
He's hoping ICE gets hurt, so he can retaliate.
#MAGA

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 06:20 PM | Reply

I'm willing to believe the rough outline of what DHS says, because obviously they'll be using this incident in their propaganda videos. I'm expecting to see it in TV ads all summer and fall. An ---- of ICE violence.

JeffJ won't be questioning the narrative because he didn't see what happened in the lead-up, like when the video makes ICE look bad.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 06:22 PM | Reply

How is that fetid water today Jeff?? Hmmmmmmmm

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-01-15 06:22 PM | Reply

SO, ICE chased the subject into a home... and arrested everyone there, according to the thread article.

Trump's Insurrection Creation Effort is well underway.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 06:30 PM | Reply

www.huffpost.com
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Says She Presented Her Nobel Peace Prize To Trump
Maria Corina Machado gave Trump her Nobel as part of a high-stakes charm offensive.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 06:47 PM | Reply

" SO, ICE chased the subject into a home... and arrested everyone there, according to the thread article."

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-15 06:48 PM | Reply

Do you really think 2 guys betting an agent with shovels should have just been left alone?

#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

ICE can start leaving people alone.

It would reduce the chance of people dying.

But their job is not to leave anyone alone.

So people are going to die.

The majority of the dead with prove to be US citizens.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 06:57 PM | Reply

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Says She Presented Her Nobel Peace Prize To Trump
Maria Corina Machado gave Trump her Nobel as part of a high-stakes charm offensive.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 06:47 PM | Reply

So she is treating Trump like a toddler then?? How embarrassing it is for our country.

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-01-15 07:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I HAVE SOME GREAT NEWS FOR "YOU PEOPLE".....THE AGENT ....who was attacked by illegals

with a shovel and broom handle is..." fighting for his life".

ZOWIE>........just think IF HE DIES........PARTY ON ..DR !!!!

--maybe one of you fans of Hunter Biden can have sex with the widow !

#15 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-15 07:17 PM | Reply

oh wow....I reread that...WHY WOULD I POST THAT

OH YEAH....THIS IS WHY.

That fat ---- needs to ride one into the pavement.
Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 11:08

One life to end an insurrection seems like a good compromise.
#106 | Posted by ClownShack at 2023-11-30 06:12 P

f there is to be a fight in the Supreme Court I just hope it is a shoot out and the liberals all stay home that day and let the sold out crooks kill each other. I hope Clarence Thomas is the first casualty.
#1 | Posted by danni

Hamas is killing and beheading babies.
They're killing them AND beheading them??
Talk about putting 110%.
I like that work ethic.
#23 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK AT 2023-10-10 12:46

--and majority of you are worthless scum when it comes to ashley babbitt....

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-15 07:26 PM | Reply

Ahsley Babbitt is 5 year sober!

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 07:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" all illegal immigrants from Venezuela who entered the country under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday."

I won't believe it until it's proven.

This is the same administration who said Renee Good was a "terrorist" before her lifeless body was out of the car.

They'll tell whatever lie they believe is most convenient.

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-15 07:31 PM | Reply

#17

Don't tell be JeffytheB pulled out Ye Olde Ashley Babbitt Lame Whataboutism rather than some actual argument THIS early in the thread?!

That's just PATHETIC.... it's not even trying.

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 07:41 PM | Reply

me, not be

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 07:42 PM | Reply

" ICE can start leaving people alone"

Deportation is part of their job.

" I won't believe it until it's proven. "

Then names of these three have been released:

" Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, previously convicted for driving without a license and arrested for two counts of giving a false name to a peace officer, was the subject of a targeted enforcement operation. He was released by Minnesota authorities before ICE could even lodge a detainer. Sosa-Celis illegally entered the United States in August 2022 under the Biden administration.

Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna, an illegal alien from Venezuela, illegally entered the United States in May 2023 under the Biden administration. After he failed to show up for his immigration hearing, he was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge.

Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledezma, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who illegally entered the United States in May 2023 under the Biden administration. The Biden administration marked this illegal alien as a non-enforcement priority"

#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-15 07:45 PM | Reply

" Don't tell be JeffytheB pulled out Ye Olde Ashley Babbitt Lame Whataboutism"

I haven't brought Babbitt up at all. Wanna know why? The 2 situations are not analogous

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-15 07:46 PM | Reply

#16 Anyone have any idea who "Ashely Babbitt" is ? ? ? ?

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-15 07:47 PM | Reply

#22 The lying coward speaks.

#24 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-15 07:48 PM | Reply

Deportation is part of their job.

#21 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Official oppression isn't, you emotional and intellectual cow.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 07:54 PM | Reply

"a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, previously convicted for driving without a license and arrested for two counts of giving a false name to a peace officer"

"criminal illegal alien"

Driving without a license, giving a false name?
These are not violent crimes.
Is this all we have on this guy?

"He was released by Minnesota authorities before ICE could even lodge a detainer."

Because he's no threat to the community.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 07:57 PM | Reply

"Deportation is part of their job."

Not really. Deportation is a legal proceeding.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 07:58 PM | Reply

Considering the Data and the Facts about even non-doc immigrant crime being a fraction of what US citizen crime is...

... one might think it obvious that all these ICE agents primarily in Blue States is some sort of Insurrection Creation Agenda of the far rwing Fascist Admin.

You know, so they can then ESCALATE to 1000's of troops rather than hundreds to create fear and violence among people who are being rounded up based on the color of their skin.

How better to avoid a Mid-Term election you are about to lose than to declare Marshall Law or some other postponement?

But Trumpers are racists thru and thru, especially the ones on these pages. And not very bright ones, either.

Wait until Trump decides he's going to rain on your parade.

First they came for brown people... but I did not speak out because I'm a lily-white Polack, eh?

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 07:59 PM | Reply

Do you really think 2 guys betting an agent with shovels should have just been left alone?
#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

I think ICE should have left the guy they were apprehending alone.
So did the Minneapolis Police Department.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 07:59 PM | Reply

"3 are illegal aliens who entered during Biden's term"

How do we know when they entered?
Are we taking their word for it?

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 08:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#21 Nothing but lies, from the lying coward cuck.

#31 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-15 08:06 PM | Reply

Consider the actual Data in #5, isn't it obvious even to Trumpers that he is LYING to you about the criminal dangers of undocumented immigrants?

Or are you really this far gone into the Cult that you'll believe anything he says?

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 08:09 PM | Reply

"Consider the actual Data in #5, isn't it obvious even to Trumpers that he is LYING to you about the criminal dangers of undocumented immigrants?"

That's what I'm saying.

Show me were these guys committed any serious crimes -- prior to the Gestapo arriving on the scene!

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 08:14 PM | Reply

Is there footage of this attack?

Or should we just believe it, like the lie about the murderer who killed Reene Good having internal bleeding.

Like Kilmar Garcia having MS-13 tattoos on his knuckles.

Republicans are liars.

It's all they do.

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-15 08:25 PM | Reply

"Like Kilmar Garcia having MS-13 tattoos on his knuckles."

They still think that guy's a violent gang member too.

These are like adults who still believe in Santa Claus.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 08:27 PM | Reply

#12 | Posted by BellRinger

There is absolutely zero reason to believe the story put out by HHS

#36 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-15 09:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Well, since all 3 people in that house were involved in the attack and all 3 are illegal aliens who entered during Biden's term, yeah they were arrested. Do you really think 2 guys betting an agent with shovels should have just been left alone?
#12 | Posted by BellRinger
There is absolutely zero reason to believe the story put out by HHS
#36 | Posted by truthhurts

What was the reason for the stop? Because they were brown?

If the stop was illegal, they are legally allowed to defend themselves. ICE does not have police powers to stop random vehicles.

And is this another instance where these people are here legally but ICE just ends their citizenship/green card case and declares them illegal?

ICE lies. Jeff believes. Same story, different day.

#37 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-01-15 10:15 PM | Reply

LOL ballwasher actually believes what these people say.

#38 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 11:20 PM | Reply

He believes everything Trump says.

He's a cultist.

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-15 11:27 PM | Reply