U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “fixed” a biased and greatly misleading headline published by the BBC Thursday in its coverage of a shooting in Minneapolis during violent anti-ICE protests on Wednesday.
In a X.com post, ICE provided a screenshot of a BBC headline declaring:
“Federal agent shoots Minneapolis man in leg after shovel attack, officials say”
ICE then notes a critical fact the BBC left out in its mischaracterization of the incident:
“Your ‘Minneapolis man’ is a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela.”
“Fixed your headline for you as well, @BBCWorld,” ICE writes, providing a graphic editing BBC’s headline by:
- Changing “Minneapolis man” to “Venezuelan criminal illegal alien.”
- Changing “after shovel attack” to “after three criminal illegal aliens ambush an ICE officer.”
BBC eventually changed its headline, moving the word “Minneapolis” to indicate that the incident took place in Minneapolis and remove the insinuation that it was a “Minneapolis man” (instead of an illegal alien) who had been shot:
“Federal agent shoots man in leg after Minneapolis shovel attack, officials say”
Details in the BBC News (World) post on X.com linking to the same story were, and continue to be, even more sparse, insinuating that a legal citizen of Minneapolis was shot by the ICE officer without provocation:
“ICE agent shoots Minneapolis man in the leg”
“BBC’s ‘Minneapolis man’ is a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela who, along with 2 other perpetrators, mercilessly beat a federal law enforcement officer with snow shovels and broom handles,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin explained in a separate post shared by ICE.
Your "Minneapolis man" is a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela.
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 15, 2026
Fixed your headline for you as well, @BBCWorld. https://t.co/IblFCbDgmw pic.twitter.com/WtLsg2Dz5H
The BBC has a legacy of exhibiting animus and bias regarding Donald Trump, going back to his first term in the White House when it maliciously edited video of comments he made during his January 6, 2021 speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
As Fox News explains, President Trump sued the BBC last December for $10 billion for defamation and violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act as a result of the edited video, which was part of a 2024 BBC documentary:
“The documentary omitted Trump urging his supporters to protest ‘peacefully’ and instead spliced two separate comments made nearly an hour apart, making him appear he was calling for violence.
"‘We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And I'll be there with you. And we fight — we fight like hell,’ the documentary showed Trump saying.
“In reality, Trump said, ‘We're gonna walk down to the Capitol. And we're gonna cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.’ It wasn't until 54 minutes later that Trump called on his supporters to ‘fight like hell’ for election integrity.”
