Update: Homeland Security dropped a statement about the incident:
“At 6:50 PM CT, federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation of an illegal alien, who was released into the country by Joe Biden, in Northwestern Minneapolis. In an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car. The subject then fled on foot.
The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer. While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle.
As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick.
Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg.
All three subjects ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves inside. The attacked officer and subject are both in the hospital.
This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers.
Their hateful rhetoric and resistance against men and women who are simply trying to do their jobs must end. Federal law enforcement officers are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest criminals and lawbreakers.”
STATEMENT FROM @DHSgov: “At 6:50 PM CT, federal law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation of an illegal alien, who was released into the country by Joe Biden, in Northwestern Minneapolis.
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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 15, 2026
Original Story: Federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement found themselves under attack yet again in Minneapolis, marking the second shooting incident in just a week. On Wednesday evening, an ICE officer shot a suspect in the leg after the individual allegedly assaulted him with a shovel during an attempted arrest in North Minneapolis.
The suspect, reportedly a Venezuelan illegal alien who had crashed his vehicle while evading capture, survived the encounter and remains in stable condition under custody. Two accomplices joined the fray, wielding a broom handle alongside the shovel, according to a Department of Homeland Security statement. This chaotic scene unfolded amid ongoing protests against federal immigration operations, with crowds gathering quickly and forcing law enforcement to deploy tear gas to maintain control.
The confrontation began when ICE agents moved in to apprehend the target on 27th Avenue North. Eyewitness accounts and official reports describe a rapid escalation: the suspect fled on foot after the crash, only for bystanders to intervene.
“We’re being told that a subject here that was apparently a target is what reports show is that he was shot in the leg,” noted NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley from the scene, where tensions boiled over with protesters chanting and clashing with a special response team. Bradley added, “You see this escalation and violence happening. And you see these agitated people that are frustrated with what’s happening with ICE being in their community.”
ICE is in their community because Democrats have made the sanctuary city a crime-infested haven for illegal aliens. The paid protesters are “frustrated” because they are given incentives to operate against their nation, not to mention their own best interests.
This latest episode comes exactly seven days after another ICE-involved shooting that claimed the life of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three. On January 7, ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Good in her vehicle in South Minneapolis after she attempted to run over officers in what authorities labeled an act of domestic terrorism. Video footage from Ross’s cellphone captured the intense moments leading up to the shots, showing Good’s car hitting the officer before the fatal encounter. Good, a trained insurrectionist from Kansas City, was obstructing ICE officers before her fatal decision.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been vocal in his criticism, previously stating that ICE was behind one of every two shootings in the city at the time. Following this week’s events, Bradley observed, “Mayor Frey actually said that ICE was responsible for one out of two of the shootings. So, 50% of the shootings. Now, we’ve got two out of three of the shootings have been ICE involved.”
Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have disputed ICE’s narrative around Good’s death despite unambiguous video evidence. The FBI took over the investigation into that incident, sidelining the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension after initial joint efforts.
These back-to-back incidents occur against the backdrop of intensified immigration enforcement under the second Trump administration. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has defended the agents, emphasizing that they followed protocol in high-risk situations. Vice President J.D. Vance has echoed this, pointing to the cellphone video as evidence of the dangers officers face, even suggesting absolute immunity for such actions—though legal experts clarify that civil rights violations remain prosecutable.
Critics of the protests argue that organized agitators are fueling the unrest, backed by well-funded networks opposed to America and freedom. In Minneapolis, a sanctuary city long at odds with federal immigration policies, such interference has only heightened the risks for agents tasked with removing criminal aliens and threats to public safety. The Venezuelan suspect in Wednesday’s shooting, for instance, was reportedly targeted as part of broader operations aimed at deporting those with ties to transnational crime.
As law enforcement navigates these volatile streets, the human cost mounts on both sides. Good’s former father-in-law expressed a measured grief, refusing to assign blame to ICE or the deceased, acknowledging the complexity of split-second decisions in the field. Yet, with tear gas lingering in the air and barricades blocking roadways, the divide deepens. Some whisper of deeper forces at play—shadowy influences stoking division to undermine efforts at restoring order to a broken immigration system.
Pray for the officers braving these assaults, for the communities torn apart, and for wisdom to prevail in a nation that feels like a tinder box at times. If cooler heads don’t intervene soon, Minneapolis risks becoming a flashpoint in a much larger battle over America’s future.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
