After a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis on Jan. 24, Trump accused Minnesota officials of inciting an insurrection and raised the prospect of invoking the Insurrection Act. Critics have said that Trump is laying the groundwork to suppress protests against the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, and perhaps elsewhere, using the Insurrection Act. “Protests do not justify invoking the Insurrection Act. “There’s no evidence that ordinary law and order has broken down in Minnesota,” University of Minnesota law professor Jill Hasday said. “The insurrection Act is a statute like any other,” Hasday said.