(NewsNation) — FBI vehicles were broken into amid protests in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters.
“I’m not certain what documents were in there that those criminals may have taken and seen,” Noem said Thursday.
NewsNation crews in Minneapolis saw city workers cleaning up what was left after the incident early Thursday morning. A city worker said they planned to throw away documents found at the scene.
Noem’s comments followed another night of tear gas, fireworks and flashbangs in Minneapolis as demonstrators called for immigration officials to leave the city after two shootings by federal agents within a week.
Noem again defended law enforcement on the ground in Minnesota, who she said “are following the law and running their operations according to training.”
Asked whether she’d recommended President Donald Trump threaten to invoke the Insurrection Act, Noem said they’d discussed it as “one of the options that he had constitutionally” to continue operations. If Trump were to use the act, U.S. military personnel could be deployed domestically to tamp down protests in Minnesota.