Minneapolis antifa member charged in Detroit with threatening ICE agents

Kara Berg, The Detroit News on Feb 5, 2026

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DETROIT — A Minneapolis antifa member has been charged after allegedly calling for the murder and assault of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, according to federal prosecutors.

Kyle Wagner, 37, of Minneapolis was arrested Thursday on federal threat and cyberstalking charges.

Federal prosecutors charged the case in the Eastern District of Michigan because Wagner allegedly used Instagram to threaten and dox a person for being pro-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, publishing their phone number, birth month and year and their parents' Oak Park address online.

Wagner allegedly called the man "bb nazi boy" and said "we can all knock on strangers doors. … Seeyou soon kiddo – stay safe out here," according to the complaint prosecutors filed in federal court.

“This man allegedly doxxed and called for the murder of law enforcement officers, encouraged bloodshed in the streets, and proudly claimed affiliation with the terrorist organization antifa before going on the run,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “Today’s arrest illustrates that you cannot run, you cannot hide, and you cannot evade our federal agents: if you come for law enforcement, the Trump Administration will come for you.”

Wagner allegedly posted on social media in January, encouraging people to forcibly confront, assault, impede, oppose and resist federal officers, whom he referred to as the “gestapo” and “murderers." He allegedly advocated for physical confrontation, noting that "anywhere we have an opportunity to get our hands on them, we need to put our hands on them.”

"We want to know who they are. We will identify every single one of them and we will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law," Wagner allegedly said on social media Jan. 13, according to federal prosecutors. "If it has to be done at the barrel of a gun, then let us have a little (expletive) fun.”

Wagner is charged with cyberstalking and illegal interstate communications, each of which is punishable by five years in prison.

“It’s no surprise that an antifa terrorist is allegedly threatening to kill and assault federal law enforcement officers as they dutifully remove criminal threats from neighborhoods,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “After all, this is what Antifa is about, lawlessness and violence. But under the leadership of President Trump and Attorney General Bondi, there is no safe haven for terrorists and no protection from the full weight of justice."

The Trump administration is in the process of withdrawing 700 federal immigration enforcement agents from Minnesota, although about 2,000 agents will stay in place, White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed immigration enforcement agents in and around Minneapolis this year to detain and deport migrants, resulting in weeks of feuding with the state's elected leaders, angry and sometimes violent confrontations with residents, and street protests across the nation.

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