U.S. secret police are terrorizing Minnesota right now, harassing anyone who isn’t white, detaining residents, and demanding to see proof of U.S. citizenship. It’s a frightening situation for people in the state as President Donald Trump utilizes racist propaganda against the Somali community to enact his far-right agenda. But at least we’re getting some funny videos of DHS agents slipping on their asses.
ICE agents are reportedly getting minimal training and vetting, with one journalist at Slate reporting that she was swiftly offered a job while “even the most cursory background check” would get her shown the door for her anti-ICE views.
More significantly, NBC News reported this week that ICE has been using an AI tool to categorize resumes submitted to the agency. The tool apparently sent some applicants with no previous law enforcement experience into a shorter training program because it was just approving anyone who used the word “officer” in any context. Simply mentioning that they wanted to become an ICE officer was enough for an applicant to be given the green light by the AI to skip a more rigorous training.
ICE on ice
Learning how to walk on ice during the winter is a skill. I speak from experience, as someone who was born and raised in Minnesota. Living there, you develop all kinds of calibration techniques through lots of trial and error. And after a while, you can navigate the slippery sidewalks and driveways of Minnesota’s harsh winter climate without falling down too much. But for outsiders who are trying to kidnap people off the streets, it can be especially hard to keep your balance.
I no longer live in Minnesota, but when I visit friends and family in the winter, walking on the ice again is just like riding a bike. You just don’t forget. And watching all of the hilarious viral videos on social media right now, it’s clear many of these federal agents have never ridden this particular kind of bicycle.
Supercuts of agents falling on their ass have cropped up on sites like TikTok, X, and Bluesky. And they’re pretty damn funny. Some of the videos also show masked goons sliding along the icy streets in their cars. Driving on ice is yet another skill that takes time and practice to acquire in an environment like the upper Midwest.
The supercuts are good, but sometimes the standalone videos can be even better. This video, for instance, includes the audio from when an agent slipped hard on his tailbone. The crowd of onlookers cheer as he scrambles to pick himself back up. Still another angle includes one person clearly calling the agent a “pussy” as everyone laughs. In that video Snopes notes that the agent is technically from Border Patrol, not ICE.
Soundtracks can also be part of the fun, with song choices ranging from Foreigner’s 1977 hit “Cold as Ice” to Vanilla Ice’s 1990 song “Ice Ice Baby.”
Another viral video captures the energy of total embarrassment by the agent as he falls repeatedly, eventually just trying to tackle the closest person he can find in a bid to save face. These guys are fundamentally cowards who hide behind their masks and guns, so they really don’t like being ridiculed by the public.
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — ICE Agent Ambushed by Gravity, Assaults Random Man. pic.twitter.com/5JoDXk3Buv
— ★★★ Pamphlets ★★★ (@PamphletsY) January 15, 2026
Another video shows a federal agent falling on his ass while trying to push around a student at Roosevelt High School.
Loser ICE agent eats shit while trying to tackle a teenager pic.twitter.com/IOFE6JWAUM
— the ginger cat from reno 911 (@frivolousisme) January 10, 2026
It’s not just supercuts that have spread. People are also making remixes and creative edits, which are pretty amusing.
There are also plenty of photoshops with various references to pop culture.
We should note that we haven’t independently verified every video’s location or authenticity, though we’re fairly confident the vast majority are real. AI has made verification an extremely difficult process, but we’re assured by the fact that in these cases, we often have the agents falling from multiple angles. Some of the videos in the longest supercuts are also not exclusively from Minnesota. The one where it looks like the agent tore something in his leg, just randomly falling down, appears to be from Whittier, California.
ICE agent falls to the ground and possibly tears his ACL as the person he’s trying to detain runs away (Whittier CA – 10/27/2025) pic.twitter.com/u98AKSAyja
— Molly Ploofkins (@Mollyploofkins) October 28, 2025
The killing of Renee Good
You know who didn’t fall on his ass? Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good on Jan. 7. Ross is reportedly local to Minnesota, living in the Minneapolis suburb of Chaska, according to People magazine. Ross reportedly told neighbors he worked as a botanist, a lie that’s easy to understand given ICE’s unpopularity in the country. Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of ICE, according to a new poll this week, and a whopping 74% of Democrats believe ICE should be abolished.
The Minneapolis Fire Department released an incident report on Friday that says Good had an “irregular pulse” when emergency responders removed her from her vehicle, according to the New York Times. It was previously unknown whether Good was alive in the minutes after the shooting, as she was slumped over in her car. A man on the scene, who said he was a doctor, was told he couldn’t check on her, according to a contemporaneous video that spread widely online.
President Donald Trump has threatened to escalate matters further in Minnesota, writing Thursday on Truth Social that he might invoke the Insurrection Act. But it’s unclear what bringing in the military might do to change things. There’s already an all-out assault on the Twin Cities. Introducing more guys with guns isn’t going to be much different from what we’ve got now.
The federal government’s assault on Minnesota is officially called Operation Metro Surge. But whatever thin pretext President Trump and his cronies are giving for this so-called “immigration crackdown,” very few locals are buying it. Trump called Somali-Americans “garbage” in one of the most overtly racist diatribes delivered from the Oval Office in modern history. And his complaints about fraud in the state are ridiculous when you think about it for two seconds. As local residents have pointed out, if this were about fraud, they’d send auditors. Instead, they’ve sent masked men to terrorize the community.
Rounding up Native Americans and other U.S. citizens
How do we know none of this is even about legal immigration? Three members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe reportedly remain in ICE custody, according to local news outlet Bring Me the News. Four homeless men were reportedly picked up in south Minneapolis on Jan. 9, and one of the men was released, but three apparently remain detained. Oglala Sioux Tribe president Frank Star Comes Out has said that ICE wanted the tribe to enter into an agreement that would make it easier for the federal agency to enter tribal land and detain anyone they like. The tribe declined.
Jose Roberto Ramirez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and descendant of the Red Lake Nation, was also reportedly arrested and released last week, according to the Star Tribune. And other citizens are getting harassed constantly, like two Target workers who were brutalized in the suburb of Richfield.
The weather in Minnesota is forecast to be pretty brutal next week, with some highs in the single digits and wind chills that make it feel closer to -20, according to Accuweather. That means any out-of-towners aren’t just going to be slipping on their ass. They’re going to be freezing that ass off if they’re standing around in the cold.
DHS didn’t respond to Gizmodo’s questions about the viral videos of agents slipping on the ice in Minnesota. We had hoped that they could provide some clarity about whether these spills are a result of poor training or just the fact that most of the agents aren’t from Minnesota. It could be both, of course, but we’d love to hear their take. We’ll update this article if they respond.
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