Minneapolis sports commentator apologizes for paid protesters comment and announces ‘time off’

Tue, 27 Jan 2026

Paul Allen’s comments came when people were demonstrating against ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good

A veteran Minneapolis sports radio commentator has apologized and says he is “taking a few days off” after invoking on air a conservative conspiracy theory that people demonstrating against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown were being paid to protest.

Paul Allen’s remarks about the protesters on his show Friday came a little more than two weeks after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot Renee Nicole Good to death on 7 January as she drove away from an encounter with him in Minneapolis, igniting street protests.