"ICE Came Here to Die" — The Kyle Wagner File: Threats, Doxxing, and the Man Who Called for War on Federal Officers Classification: Political Violence — Left Wing / Blue
"ICE Came Here to Die"
Kyle Wagner is a Minneapolis resident who built a public identity as an Antifa organizer through social media. His Instagram accounts — @kaos.follows and later @antifa.kaos — became a real-time broadcast platform for calls to action against ICE agents during January 2026. His posts ranged from tactical instruction to outright death threats. His largest single post received 25,900 likes.
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■ Federal Arrest — June 16, 2026 — HSI
He Chose the Sweatshirt.
He Knew They Were Coming.
A separate federal criminal complaint had been filed against Kyle Wagner on February 3, 2026 — four months before his arrest. A federal magistrate judge in Detroit had signed it. Wagner knew. He kept posting. He kept organizing. He kept threatening. And when HSI agents came for him on June 16, 2026, he was wearing a black hoodie with three words across the chest: "I'M ANTIFA!"
That was not an accident. That was the last post.
Editorial Notice: All factual claims are sourced directly to Case 2:26-mj-30053 (Criminal Complaint and HSI Affidavit, E.D. Michigan, February 3, 2026) and the federal grand jury indictment CR 26-115 KMM/DTS (D. Minnesota, June 11, 2026). All quotes are verbatim from court documents. Wagner is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The identity of the doxxed civilian (J.S.) is withheld by NFA. NFA does not promote harassment.
This is an individual case file. Wagner is also Defendant 7 in the Operation DAMN conspiracy — the 15-person network charged with six months of organized political violence against federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. See NFA-PV-001-L for the complete DAMN investigation. This report covers Wagner's individual charges, his social media record, and the conduct that no other DAMN defendant was charged with.
■ Section I
Who Is Kyle Wagner? The Man Behind the Posts
Kyle Wagner is a Minneapolis resident who built a public identity as an Antifa organizer through social media. His Instagram accounts — @kaos.follows and later @antifa.kaos — became a real-time broadcast platform for calls to action against ICE agents during January 2026. His posts ranged from tactical instruction to outright death threats. His largest single post received 25,900 likes.
He was not operating from the shadows. He used his real name on Facebook. He showed his face on every video. He posted his Venmo, Cashapp, and PayPal accounts and solicited donations. He told his followers exactly where he was and what he was doing. He wore a bulletproof vest on camera. He handed out gas masks from the back of his truck in broad daylight. He described himself, repeatedly and without hesitation, in the same three words: "I am Antifa."
That public visibility became the foundation of the federal case against him. HSI Special Agent Rudy S. Lara, temporarily assigned from Dallas to St. Paul, reviewed WAGNER's social media record post by post. The resulting affidavit — 31 pages, sworn before a federal magistrate judge in Detroit — documents Wagner's escalation from January 8 through January 29, 2026, with verbatim quotes, like counts, and timestamps. Every word Wagner posted became evidence.
■ Defendant Profile — Kyle Wagner — NFA-PV-001-L-W
Legal Name
Kyle Wagner
Alias
Kaos
Residence
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Self-Identification
"I am Kyle. I am Antifa."
Instagram, January 24, 2026
Social Media
Facebook: Kyle Wagner
Instagram: @kaos.follows
Instagram: @antifa.kaos
(second account, created after original banned)
Federal Cases
CR 26-115 KMM/DTS — D. Minnesota
Counts 1, 2, 3: Conspiracy, Solicitation, Interstate Threats
2:26-mj-30053 — E.D. Michigan
Cyberstalking + Interstate Threats (private civilian)
Wagner on Instagram @kaos.follows — January 24, 2026. Shirtless. Chest tattoo: "RESISTANCE." This is the video in which he screamed: "Go and fight them. Or shut the f--- up and die for them." Source: HSI Criminal Complaint Affidavit.
Wagner in bulletproof vest — January 24, 2026 — 601 likes. Caption on screen: "stop these $@#%&*$ people." Posted caption: "Suns out guns out… stfu and fight back." This post is the specific basis for Counts Two and Three in the main DAMN indictment: Solicitation to Commit Violence and Interstate Threats against a federal officer.
■ Section II
The Federal Charges: Two Courts, Five Counts
Wagner is unique among all 15 DAMN defendants. Every other defendant faces charges only in the District of Minnesota. Wagner faces charges there and in the Eastern District of Michigan — a separate court, a separate case number, a separate judge, a separate filing date. His individual conduct took him beyond the scope of the conspiracy and into federal territory that none of his co-defendants entered.
■ Grand Jury Indictment — CR 26-115 KMM/DTS — U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota — Filed June 11, 2026
■ Criminal Complaint — Case 2:26-mj-30053-DUTY — U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan — Filed February 3, 2026
● Key Distinction
Counts Two and Three charge threats against federal officers — that is conduct shared in spirit with the broader DAMN conspiracy. The Michigan complaint charges threats against a private civilian — J.S. had no government role, no law enforcement connection, no public position. He was a 26-year-old private citizen who expressed support for ICE. Wagner published his parents' home address on Instagram and said "See you soon." That charge stands completely apart from every other defendant in this case.
■ Section III
The Social Media Record: January 8–29, 2026
HSI Special Agent Rudy S. Lara documented Wagner's social media activity post by post. The following is drawn verbatim from the sworn affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Michigan — Case 2:26-mj-30053. Like counts and timestamps are as documented in the affidavit. All statements are Wagner's own words.
■ Documented Post Record — Source: HSI Affidavit, Case 2:26-mj-30053, Filed Feb 3, 2026
January 8, 2026
Instagram @kaos.follows
2,196 likes“I’ve already bled for this city, I’ve already fought for this city, this is nothing new, we’re ready this time, ICE we’re f---ing coming for you.”
Video posted with Minneapolis skyline in background. Caption on screen: "It's raining in January — mother natures come to melt the ice from our city."
January 9, 2026
Instagram @kaos.follows + Facebook (Kyle Wagner)
394 likes“The ICE bunk houses in West End and around the Twin Cities are constant harassment of ICE and we need to continue that, but we also need to cripple them. Anywhere we have an opportunity to get our hands on them, we need to put our hands on them.”
Full Facebook post also included: "hunt ice — vehicles can be sacrificed — disable their vehicles — surround them and disarm them — arm yourself and work in crowds… If you are armed and on the fence - you are witnessing the night of the long knives… This is kill or be killed… Arrest ice - arrest the president - this is an occupation… We have a duty to win." Separately posted on Facebook: "if you're armed - declare it and exercise SOP for escalation of force… We do not shoot first - if they pull the trigger - defend yourself."
January 10, 2026
Instagram @kaos.follows + Facebook
553 likes“Get out on the streets. Have some f----- fun. Keep your heads. We’re not the violent ones. Go take their f------ masks off and take their f------ guns.”
Same day, second video: "I posted that video because we are at f------ war. This is a war for our f----- souls right now. I am going to stay in this fight to the bitter end. So, either we're going to win, or I will die in this process." Caption on screen in the video: "we are at $@#%&*$ war" and "or I will die in this us."
January 12, 2026
Instagram @kaos.follows
1,480 likes“every armed citizen, you have a choice to make whether you allow this to stand in our community or not. We are the Iron Front. It is an ideology.”
Also posted Venmo (@kaos_follows_612), Cashapp ($kaoskollows), PayPal (@kylewagner732) — soliciting donations. Described ICE agents as "illegitimate occupational forces." Caption: "We act or we will die." 1,480 likes.
January 13, 2026 — THE DEATH THREAT
Instagram @kaos.follows
25,900 likes“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. If that has to be done at the barrel of a gun, then let us have a little f------ fun.”
Same post: "This is where ICE has come to die." Caption included: "If the national guard doesn't come clean you up off our streets soon - we will… You can't know about ruby ridge and Waco and OKC bombing and stand on your 2a rights and then try to defend ICE - you're Nazis - and we crushed you in the 90s and we will crush you." One follower commented in reply: "Time for them to meet your friends. Namely AR15 and 9MM." Another commenter shared Wagner's Venmo. Captions on video: "Kyle and I'm Antifa live from" and "the barrel of a gun, then let."
January 14, 2026
Instagram @kaos.follows
902 likes“every armed Minnesotan is going to be there… ICE came here to die.”
Wearing bulletproof vest. Directed followers to oppose pro-ICE rally on Saturday January 17. "this fascism will not be allowed on our streets." Caption on video: "All of the war stories we."
January 17, 2026
Facebook (Kyle Wagner)
30,400 likes“And ice came here to die.”
After a pro-ICE rally in Minneapolis. Discussed allowing right-wing figure Jake Lang to leave. Posted caption framing armed followers as a "silent" presence. Caption on video: "And Ice came here to die." 30,400 likes.
January 24, 2026 — THE CRITICAL DATE — Counts 2 & 3
Facebook (Kyle Wagner) + Instagram @kaos.follows — Multiple videos
601 likes“I have my truck on standby. I have gas masks on the ground there, as much as I could deliver. I have people en route. If you’re seeing this video, we’re done with peaceful protests now. The gloves come off and ICE needs to get out. Run for the hills, boys.”
Wearing bulletproof vest. Caption directed to "every armed American that's within a reasonable distance of 26th and Nicollet." Additional video shirtless: "I am Kyle. I am Antifa. And they just shot another f------ peaceful observer… You can't march and bang drums and sing songs when they're shooting people in the f------ head. Go and f----- fight them. Or shut the f--- up and die for them." Third video, wearing bulletproof vest: "Get your f------ guns and stop these f------ people." Caption: "Suns out guns out… stfu and fight back." THIS POST IS THE SPECIFIC BASIS FOR COUNTS TWO AND THREE IN THE MAIN INDICTMENT.
January 26, 2026
Instagram @antifa.kaos (new account — original banned)
26,500 likes · 228 comments · 1,902 reposts · 3,506 saves“My name’s Kyle. I’m Antifa. And I’m back. They pulled everything I’ve ever f------ put on the Internet off the Internet today like I never f----- existed… The fight is well and alive. We have pushed ICE to leave this city in droves. We have made our voices heard. Viva la resistance.”
Same day: drove pickup truck to crowd, got out and asked "Who needs a gas mask?" Distributed approximately 30 gas masks and shields from truck bed. Video captioned "Power to the people" #minneapolis #antifa #iykyk #fuckice #fucktrump #ironfront — 26,500 likes, 3,506 saves.
January 27, 2026
Instagram @antifa.kaos
“I’m Kyle. I’m Antifa. Welcome to Minneapolis. Got rid of Bovino yesterday. Also sent a lot of ICE agents packing. It’s working people. The pressure is getting results.”
"Bovino" is a reference to Border Czar Tom Homan — consistent with Indictment Paragraph 78 in which Wagner signals planning to "give homan a proper welcome."
“This Is Kill or Be Killed…Kyle Wagner — Facebook public post — January 9, 2026 — HSI Affidavit, Case 2:26-mj-30053
We Have a Duty to Win.”
■ Section IV
The Doxxing: A Private Citizen in Oak Park, Michigan
On January 29, 2026, Wagner did something that had nothing to do with federal officers or immigration enforcement. He found a private 26-year-old citizen — identified in the federal complaint only as J.S. — who had publicly expressed support for ICE. Wagner published J.S.'s personal information on Instagram to his tens of thousands of followers and accompanied it with a personal threat.
This is the specific conduct that produced the Michigan complaint — filed February 3, 2026, just five days later — making Wagner the subject of active federal proceedings in two separate district courts simultaneously. The Michigan case is not about ICE operations. It is about a private American citizen whose home address was published online by a man who then told his followers: "We can all knock on strangers doors."
■ Federal Charge — Cyberstalking — 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2) — January 29, 2026
Wagner Published a Private Civilian's Home Address on Instagram
with a Personal Threat — "See You Soon Kiddo"
On January 29, 2026, using his Instagram account @antifa.kaos, Wagner published a post containing the following personal information about J.S.:
• Full legal name
• Birth month and year (Age 26, Born 1999)
• Phone number with area code
• Home address — Oak Park, Michigan 48237
Wagner called J.S. a "bb nazi boy" in the same post.
See You Soon Kiddo — Stay Safe Out Here.”
Wagner later admitted on video that he had doxxed J.S.'s parents' house — not J.S.'s own address. He also discussed fighting J.S. in a cage fight.
Special Agent Lara concluded Wagner used Instagram with intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place J.S. under surveillance — causing, or reasonably expected to cause, substantial emotional distress. Wagner also transmitted in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure J.S.
Criminal complaint signed by SA Rudy S. Lara, HSI. Sworn before Hon. David R. Grand, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of Michigan. Filed February 3, 2026. Case No. 2:26-mj-30053-DUTY.
● Editorial Note
NFA is withholding J.S.'s full identifying information. Wagner published it publicly. Federal prosecutors have charged that publication as cyberstalking. J.S. is a private civilian who has not been charged with any offense. His personal information will not be republished here.
■ Section V
The Arrest: He Wore the Sweatshirt on Purpose
A federal criminal complaint had been filed against Wagner on February 3, 2026. A federal magistrate judge in Detroit had signed it. Wagner knew. The main conspiracy indictment was filed June 11, 2026 — under seal. Wagner may or may not have known that was coming.
When HSI executed the arrest warrants on June 16, 2026 — five days after the indictment was filed — they found Wagner wearing a black hoodie with "I'M ANTIFA!" printed across the chest. He also had multiple Antifa patches at his residence, recovered during the search warrant. Federal law enforcement photographed the arrest. The image was published by news outlets within hours.
He had said it on every video. He had printed it on a patch recovered from his home. And on the day federal agents came to his door, he wore it on his chest. Whatever else the jury ultimately decides about the charges — that image already told the story he wanted to tell.
LEFT: Kyle Wagner taken into federal custody by HSI agents, June 16, 2026. Black hoodie: "I'M ANTIFA!" This is the same identity proclaimed across hundreds of social media posts, documented in the federal indictment, confirmed by Antifa patches recovered from his residence during the search warrant, and stated by Wagner himself on every video he posted. RIGHT: Wagner from his Instagram account @kaos.follows — the January 24, 2026 video. Source: Published news photograph + federal criminal complaint affidavit.
Physical evidence recovered from Wagner's residence during the federal search warrant. The patch reads "ANTIFASCHISTISCHE" in Gothic lettering — an internationally recognized Antifa symbol. Consistent with Indictment Paragraph 88: "WAGNER wore a sweatshirt that had 'I'm Antifa!' on the front. WAGNER possessed multiple Antifa patches at his residence." Source: Federal search warrant evidence.
■ Section VI
What Made Wagner Different: The Only Defendant in Two Courts
Of all 15 defendants in the Operation DAMN conspiracy, Wagner alone was charged in a separate federal court. Every other defendant — Sant, Kennedy, Doyle, Robinet, Davis, Apland, Van De Water Davis, Thoreson, Kim, Stewart, Misterek, Beisell, Morgan, Rakotz — faces charges only in the District of Minnesota.
Wagner faces charges there and in the Eastern District of Michigan. The Michigan case is about something none of the others did: targeting a private citizen who had nothing to do with immigration enforcement, finding his parents' home address, publishing it to tens of thousands of followers, and saying "See you soon."
The conspiracy charges make him one of fifteen. The Michigan charges make him one of one.
● NFA Summary Finding
Wagner is the only DAMN defendant charged in two separate federal courts. He is the only defendant charged with cyberstalking. He is the only defendant charged with interstate threats against a private civilian. He is the only defendant who maintained public social media accounts recruiting followers to take armed action. He is the only defendant whose arrest was photographed in an "I'M ANTIFA!" sweatshirt. He was also charged four months before the main indictment — meaning federal law enforcement identified his conduct as independently criminal before the conspiracy case was even ready to file. [Sources: CR 26-115, D. Minn.; 2:26-mj-30053, E.D. Mich.]
■ Complete Source Record — NFA-PV-001-L-W
United States v. Kyle Wagner. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan. Filed February 3, 2026. 31 pages. Complainant: SA Rudy S. Lara, HSI (Dallas, TX / St. Paul, MN). Sworn before: Hon. David R. Grand, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Detroit, MI. AUSA: Danielle Asher, (313) 226-9100. File: fb89cd18d_Wagner-Complaint.pdf.
United States v. Sant et al. U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. Filed June 11, 2026. 94 pages. Wagner named as Defendant 7 — Counts 1, 2, 3. File: f06e03b49_INDICTMENT-15.pdf.
PHOTO-WAGNER-001 (Instagram Jan 24 shirtless), PHOTO-WAGNER-002 (bulletproof vest Jan 24, 601 likes), PHOTO-WAGNER-003 (arrest photo June 16 — "I'M ANTIFA!" sweatshirt), PHOTO-WAGNER-004 (Antifaschistische patch — search warrant evidence). Sources: HSI criminal complaint affidavit screenshots + news photograph + federal search warrant evidence.
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