Media’s Bogus Minneapolis Narrative About to Be Nuked As DHS Turns on the Cameras

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that all immigration officers working in Minneapolis will start wearing body cameras as an added layer of protection for those officers and, presumably, against the false narratives being pushed by the left after a series of deadly officer-involved incidents in the sanctuary city.

In a post on X, Noem said the body cameras would be deployed "effective immediately," and confirmed she had spoken with White House Border Czar Tom Homan, who is now leading the Trump administration's immigration efforts in Minneapolis, and the heads of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) before making the announcement. She also noted that the body camera program would be "expanded nationwide" if funding allows.

I just spoke with @RealTomHoman @ICEDirector @CBPCommissioner. Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis.

As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body…
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 2, 2026

I just spoke with @RealTomHoman @ICEDirector @CBPCommissioner. Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis.
As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country.
The most transparent administration in American history—thank you @POTUS Trump.
Make America Safe Again 🇺🇸

As RedState has been reporting, the administration surged federal law enforcement resources into Minneapolis last month after well-organized anti-ICE groups, such as ICE Watch, began aggressively interfering with immigration operations. One agitator, Renee Nicole Good, was shot and killed January 7 after she drove her two-ton Honda Pilot at agents who were attempting to detain her for disrupting an immigration raid. In that case, one of the officers involved captured the altercation on his cell phone, which shed light on what truly happened – including the fact that Good hit one of the officers with her vehicle – and nuked the left's narrative that she was "just a mom" who innocently happened upon the scene after dropping her son off at school.

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Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be video from the vantage point of the officers involved in the January 24 shooting death in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti, another anti-ICE protestor who decided to interfere with lawful immigration enforcement operations. There are, however, videos taken by Pretti's fellow agitators and other bystanders that show how the altercation unfolded; the Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into Pretti's death.

Use of body cameras by police officers has become more common in recent years for both the protection of the officers wearing them and the preservation of unbiased evidence in law enforcement encounters. Often, that evidence is contrary to narratives being pushed by the left and their partners in the media.

President Trump weighed in on Noem's decision, saying he was "okay" with it.

“They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can’t lie about what’s happening,” he said in the Oval Office Monday, adding, “If she wants to do the camera thing, that’s OK with me.”

I ask POTUS about Secretary Noem’s announcement that DHS is deploying body cameras to Minneapolis: pic.twitter.com/3mW0EXDfGr
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 2, 2026

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) had a somewhat different take, saying in an X post, "This should have been the case long before they killed two Americans." He added, "Border patrol agents should never have been sent in masks and camo to wreak havoc and aimlessly run around a state 1,500 miles from the Southern border."

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