Tear gas floods a Minneapolis family's SUV after they get caught between protesters and officers

  • Posted on January 17, 2026
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Tear gas floods a Minneapolis family's SUV after they get caught between protesters and officers

A Minneapolis couple says that after inadvertently getting caught between protesters and immigration officers this week, an officer rolled a tear gas canister under their family’s SUV, flooding the vehicle with toxic fumes that left them and several of their six children, including an infant, in need of hospital treatment. The Jackson family's ordeal Wednesday shows how people in and around the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are getting swept up in the Trump administration's largest crackdown to date, even if they aren't among the many locals who have been demonstrating against the operation. Destiny Jackson, 26, said the family was driving home from her middle schooler’s basketball game when they reached a blocked-off street in north Minneapolis near where a federal officer had shot a man in the leg after federal authorities say he was attacked while trying to make an arrest.
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