Is Civil War Coming? My Thoughts On The Minneapolis Shooting Yesterday

What this episode is about

The discussion centers around the escalating tensions and potential for civil unrest in the U.S., particularly following a shooting incident involving an ICE officer and a woman attempting to run him over. The commentary emphasizes a belief that a significant segment of the population is steadfastly anti-American and unwilling to engage in rational discourse, while highlighting the troubling rhetoric from certain politicians who threaten civil war over immigration enforcement.

Key takeaways

• When logic, decency, and self-preservation are abandoned, the new normal seems almost dystopian.
• Political rhetoric threatens civil war tactics, harkening back to an era we thought was behind us.
• Activists seek confrontation for clicks, turning real conflicts into viral content—a modern-day theater of absurdity.
• Politicians alleging insurrection from ICE encounters might need a refresher on the Civil War's historical context.
• The blurred lines between activism and provocation could turn peaceful protests into catalysts for chaos.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Matt Walsh (Host) · 15 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 12:00 – 15:00: Curtis Wayne Wright

Notable quotes from "Is Civil War Coming? My Thoughts On The Minneapolis Shooting Yesterday"

• That this was self-defense. And this one shot by someone on the scene and put in slow-mo by Colin Wright is one of the most one of the best ways to visualize what happened. And you can see it here.

  about Curtis Wayne Wright · at 11:57

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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 So they're hounding the ICE agents the whole time. They're spitting on them and then they after the woman is shot while driving directly at an ICE officer, some guy shouts, "Dude, you did a murder." Yes, dude, you did a murder. That's how these imbeciles speak. We're now trending very clearly towards a particularly brutal war that seemed unthinkable until recently. It's increasingly evident that millions of people living in this country are so committed to an explicitly anti-American postnational ideology that they cannot be reasoned with. Video evidence means nothing to them. They're not interested in logic or laws or decency. And in some cases, they don't even care about self-preservation.

0:44 Their primary belief system revolves around a mixture of nihilism, irony, ghoullishness, and intense jealousy and insecurity. And these millions of people are well represented in government. They're represented by politicians who are now openly threatening that they will start a new civil war over the fact that the Trump administration is enforcing immigration laws that were passed in a free and open democratic fashion. And those politicians includes Tim Walls, who's obviously eager to distract from his involvement in a generational scheme to defraud taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, in a moment, we'll get into the specifics of the shooting involving the ICE officer and the professional agitator who tried to run him over. We will demonstrate beyond beyond any doubt whatsoever that the ICE officer was fully justified in shooting and killing this woman.

1:40 But it's important at the outset to reject the framing that the left and much of the corporate press is attempting to establish here. So let me say it outright. Even if all of their lies were true, which they aren't, even if an ICE officer had somehow decided one day, for no reason to brutally murder somebody on camera, there would still be no justifiable reason whatsoever for politicians to talk the way they're talking now in the Democrat party from Minnesota to Washington. there would be no justifiable reason to fment an insurrection against the United States of America in response to uh that sort to something like that. There'd be no reason for a politician like Tim Walls to imply that his state is now at war with the federal government and to suggest as he did yesterday that the National Guard might be ordered to defy or even attack officers of the federal government. Watch.

2:42 Look, I I don't know. I don't think any governor in history has had to fight a war against the federal government every single day. Well, I said this yesterday. We've never been at war with our federal government order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you a warning order is a heads up for folks. And these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. They're teachers in your community. They're business owners. They're construction professionals. They are motans.

3:13 Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait. We will continue to update you Minnesota as we get more information. Yeah. By the way, just a quick historical note. He said that no governor in history has fought a war against the federal government. Um what the Civil War? Have you heard of that? That's that happened. Um, and it seems like he wants another one now. So, what does it take for the DOJ to haul this guy away in handcuffs? You know, this is the most crooked, corrupt uh one of the most crooked and corrupt public officials we've seen in modern American history. I mean, fresh off of scamming the taxpayer, he's now declaring war against the United States government.

4:08 He should not be a free man at this point, okay? He should be frog marched in shackles in front of cameras. He should be looking at charges for insurrection and treason. There's no need to read between the lines here. The implication is obvious. Tim Walls is deliberately laying the groundwork for a scenario in which the Minnesota National Guard will fire upon ICE officers or vice versa. Will he give the order himself? Probably not. But Tim Walls understands that in general when you put the National Guard on the street and order them to undermine ICE in defiance of the Constitution, then the likelihood of a catastrophic incident, a modern Boston massacre situation becomes very, very high. And that's what he wants, very clearly.

4:55 The strategy Will Walls is using is very familiar to leftwing terrorists. The entire reason that this lesbian poet was stalking ICE agents yesterday and blocking their vehicles by stopping in the middle of the road was that she wanted a confrontation. She wanted her partner, quote unquote, or whoever it was to film everything. She was desperately trying to get a reaction out of ICE so that she could present them as fascists and upload the footage all over the internet. There's no other reason why you would park your car perpendicular in the middle of the road.

5:29 And that's been their strategy for months now. Usually they stand in front of ICE vehicles and try to block their access to detention facilities. We've seen this all the time. Walls is applying this strategy on a much broader scale. He's being transparently phony about his motivations when he praises the National Guard in that clip. He doesn't mean a word of what he's saying. As Mike Cernovich pointed out during the BLM riots, which Democrats of course encouraged and endorsed and facilitated and funded, Walls openly mocked the Minnesota National Guard, saying they're poorly trained and useless. Watch.

6:02 Mayor knew what he was asking for. He wanted the National Guard. And what does that mean? I think to the mayor, yes, I think it's a perception. I'm certainly not questioning that. I think the mayor said, "I requested National Guard. I'm this is great. We're going to have massively trained troops." No, you're going to have 19year-olds who are cooks. Walls's views of the Minnesota National Guard haven't changed, right? What's changed is that in 2026, he's hoping that one of these National Guardsmen, who he says he thinks are not well trained and not reliable, uh he he hopes that one of them will take a shot at an ICE agent or try to run one over or or something along those lines. And that would enable Democrats to launch a domestic color revolution on on an even greater scale than what we saw in 2020.

6:46 Now, make no mistake, if an ICE officer had been murdered yesterday, every single one of these people would be celebrating right now, just as they celebrated the assassination of the healthcare CEO, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the multiple assassination attempts on Trump. They're not remotely upset that this person died. They're thrilled about it. They think they can use her death for their own political gain. And you know, they're not going to stop with this one lesbian agitator who they're now calling a legal observer to make her sound like a UN monitor in some third world war zone.

7:20 But she wasn't a legal observer, whatever the hell that is. She was intentionally obstructing ICE, according to eyewitnesses. Watch. They clearly wanted her out of there um because she was the main car leading the um the protest is my understanding. I talked to another guy who was driving behind her. Um but she was she was very uh she was very successful in blocking traffic. She was doing what she was what she was set out to do and so they wanted to get her the hell out of there. Um yeah.

7:56 So it looked like she was impeding ICE vehicles. Definitely. Yeah, that was her goal.

8:03 So, uh, what was actually happening here was, uh, you know, this was not a a a mom running errands. This was not someone dropping her child off at school. She was trying to stage an illegal blockade of the road to interfere with ICE agents. Okay? And that which is which is a a serious crime already. I I know this comes as a shock to leftwing activists who just do whatever the hell they want all the time, especially blocking traffic. They do this. You This is the anti-ICE activists do it. The BLM climate change, they love doing this, but like you're actually not allowed to do that. Not only you're not allowed to do that, that's a serious crime to just say, "I'm going to block the road. I'm going to blockade this road.

8:57 Doesn't matter if there are federal agents trying to enforce uh federal laws. There could be an ambulance with someone in a medical emergency. It could be all kinds of things. But you know what? Because I want to, I'm going to block the road. That's what she decided to do. And they tried to go and detain her for it, which of course, because you're committing a serious crime. Uh and then she rammed her car into one of them when they attempted to apprehend her. That's what happened. Now, by now you've probably seen many different angles of the shooting on Wednesday. We'll start with the first clip that everybody saw, which isn't really remarkable because of the shooting, but because of how utterly and completely annoying all of the bystanders are. I mean, Reddit must have been having some kind of convention on the sidewalk during the shooting. That's the only way to explain this. Uh, watch

9:41 and listen if you if you can muster. Get the out of our neighborhood. Oh my god.

10:03 What? What the dude? What the Dude, you did a murder for what? So, they're hounding the ICE agents the whole time. They're spitting on them and then they after the woman is shot while driving directly at an ICE officer. Some guy shouts, "Dude, you did a murder." Yes, dude, you did a murder. That's how these imbeciles speak. not even capable of sounding like normal people. They they've spent so much time online racking up tons of Reddit points, they might as well speaking a different language at this point. And they're doing all this supposedly to protect foreigners who are breaking our laws and in many cases stealing our money. I mean, they're doing all this specifically in Minnesota to protect Somali scammers. Okay, this is all this woman gave her life in the commission of a crime to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers who by the way couldn't give less of a damn about her.

11:17 You notice when you see all these like protests now and riots and the vigils and everything, you notice how the Somali community is not showing up in mass, you notice how they're not showing up. You know why? Because they don't care. They don't care at all. All of you idiots that are flooding the streets to protect scam artists who are stealing money from you. Um, yeah, the Somali community, they're not even going to say thank you. They won't even show up at your candle light vigil. Guess what? Cuz they don't care.

11:54 In any event, very quickly, more videos came out which made it even more clear that this was self-defense. And this one shot by someone on the scene and put in slow-mo by Colin Wright is one of the most one of the best ways to visualize what happened. And you can see it here. We'll put it up on the screen. And as Colin points out, quote, "The car is in drive and the woman steps on the gas while the wheels are turned to the left." And you can see right there. Yep, there it is going right at the guy. Um, because the ground is frozen, the tires have no traction. and they spin in place. Had there been no ice, the car very likely would have head-on struck the officer standing in front of the vehicle as Colin writes description, which is true. And indeed, from another angle, you can clearly see that the car did in fact strike the officer in a glancing blow that physically moves his body. And we'll show that angle here

12:46 now. And keep in mind as you watch this footage that we're only seeing it because of X. I mean, if it weren't for X, this would be another Michael Brown, hands up, don't shoot type of thing. It would be another George Floyd, which it might be. I mean, they're trying to turn it into that, but it would be yet another case where a mob forms around the body, concocts a false narrative, and burns down entire cities. And to the extent that we may be able to pull back from the brink here, which remains to be seen, it's because the public, if they know where to look, has access to this footage and they can share it without getting banned for spreading Russian disinformation or whatever.

13:23 Now, to be clear, under the law, as well as common sense, law enforcement officers have every right to shoot and kill you if you ignore their orders to stop and drive a two-tonon automobile towards them. You know, when officers don't react with lethal force in this scenario, they often end up like this. Watch.

13:45 Turn off the car. No. 39. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car.

13:59 299. She almost struck me. Get out of the car. Now, just the past year, there have been more than a hundred incidents where criminals and vehicles have targeted ICE and Border Patrol agents. A few months ago in Chicago, an ICE officer was dragged under a vehicle. In December, two ICE agents were hit by a car. Um, you know, it's becoming a major problem for law enforcement. This is why if you drive a car towards a police officer, you get shot. And that's nobody's fault but your own. And it's why in general it's a bad idea to disobey law enforcement officers.

14:46 When you disregard the law and behave as if the rules don't apply to you, then you run a very significant risk that one day you will pay a very severe punishment for doing so. Now, you get the sense that for many of these left-wing terrorists, they've never suffered real consequences for their crimes at any point in their lives. And as a result, they're emboldened. They think that because they've run 20 red lights with no issue, therefore there's no harm in running one more red light. Like that's the kind of mentality, even though what they're doing is a lot worse than running red lights. Eventually though, they inevitably learn the hard way that indeed, you know, there's very good reason to stop at red lights. And if anything, that's an argument for dramatically scaling up the punishments that these agitators face.

15:33 Don't let them block another ICE vehicle or spit on another ICE officer without going to federal prison. These people can't be coddled anymore. Hey YouTube, thanks for listening to the show. If you'd like access to my full show with no ads, you should go to dailywire.com and use promo code Walsh to get two months free on all annual plans. See you there.

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The discussion centers around the escalating tensions and potential for civil unrest in the U.S., particularly following a shooting incident involving an ICE officer and a woman attempting to run him over. The commentary emphasizes a belief that a significant segment of the population is steadfastly anti-American and unwilling to engage in rational discourse, while highlighting the troubling…

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