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In January 2026, as more than 2,000 officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) patrolled the Minneapolis area under directions from President Donald Trump's administration, a video circulated online claiming to show one of the federal agents slipping and falling on ice in the city.
The footage spread following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. It appeared on social media sites such as Instagram and X; media outlets like Turkish broadcaster TRT World and Australia's 10 News, and late-night comedy shows in the U.S. Social media users claimed the clip showed "ICE falling on ice."
The video is genuine. It was not created using artificial intelligence (AI) software nor manipulated using digital editing tools. The footage authentically shows a federal agent slipping and falling on ice in Minneapolis. We found photographs of the moment by reputable sources.
However, the agent's uniform and at least one witness account indicated that he is part of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a federal agency that was deployed in the area for the same purpose as ICE. As such, we rated this claim mostly true.
The video emerged on Jan. 11, 2026, and shows a federal agent with a yellow badge running toward the camera while onlookers jeer at him. The agent then slips and falls on ice in front of a man in a black jacket who is taking photographs with a camera. Another person in a blue jacket who is recording the scene from their phone appears in front of the camera, while another person cheers in the background. The federal agent then gets up and runs back to a waiting vehicle.
In another video of the same scene from a different angle, a person behind the camera screams insults at the officer.
The man in a black jacket with a camera was Christopher Katsarov, a journalist with the Canadian Press. He captured the moment in the image below. The caption states: "A Federal agent slips and falls on ice during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026."
(Christopher Katsarov/Canadian Press)
Nasuna Stuart-Ulin, a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, also captured the the agent slipping from a different angle.
(Instagram user "nasunaphoto")
Neither image's caption identified whether the agent worked for ICE, but a close look at his uniform revealed the agent likely worked for Border Patrol. The yellow label on his back reads "Police" and "U.S. Border Patrol," and the yellow logo on his arm is consistent with the ones worn by CBP officers in other photographs taken in Minneapolis around the same time.
Stuart-Ulin said via text message that the man slipping on ice was a Border Patrol agent.
CBP and ICE both fall under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. While ICE carries out immigration enforcement across the interior of the country, CBP was established to secure borders and can carry out arrests and searches without a warrant within 100 miles of a border.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino told Fox News that CBP agents were in Minneapolis to conduct immigration enforcement operations, adding that they go after "violent criminals" and "fraudsters."
In sum, we determined the video is authentic, as evidenced by photographs of the moment and witnesses' observations. However, the man was a Border Patrol agent, not an ICE agent as some social media posts described him.
Snopes has investigated several claims related to the shooting of Good, including the authenticity of an image that allegedly showed Good's car driving directly into the agent who shot her and a video claiming to show an ICE agent accidentally discharging a weapon while falling on ice.
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