Social Media Posts claim ICE agent slipped on actual ice. They’re Mostly Right
Claim: Footage authentically shows an ICE agent running toward protesters in Minneapolis before slipping and falling on ice.
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 slippling on ice.” Slipping
An ICE agent was caught slipping on ice in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/wXMxisaOAm
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 13, 2026
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.
As of this writing, we have not determined the source of that video, which appears to be the most popular recording of the moment, nor the identity of the federal agent.
In another video of the same scene from a different angle, a person behind the camera screams insults at the officer.
@bayareaman06The crowd laughs as an ICE agent slips and falls in Minneapolis? Cool Attitude (Vox) – Ah2
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 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.” News reports have documented instances of Border Patrol agents firing gas canisters at protesters in Minneapolis, and one agent shot a man in the leg after DHS said the agent was attacked.
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. Agents from both agencies were patrolling Minneapolis for the same reasons.