WATFORD, England (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are undefeated so far this season — and undefeated in international games in franchise history.
Don't tell coach Kevin O'Connell, though.
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Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson, right, poses with Nausicaa Dell'Orto, Captain of the Italian women's national flag football team, during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold speaks during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones speaks during an interview after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell speaks during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18), second left, works out during NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold (14) and Nick Mullens (12) look on during NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
“A lot of people have taken note of the start that we’re off to," he said. "As I tell our guys every single time I get to stand in front of them, that means absolutely nothing.”
The Vikings (4-0) arrived in London on Friday and will try to improve on their perfect record when they face Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets (2-2) on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“We’ve got to go out for four quarters this week and re-establish ourselves — our identity, our play style, our football philosophy — it's got to be re-established on a week-in week-out basis,” O'Connell said. “That’s how you win consistently in this league.”
The team has had “a chip on our shoulder since the very beginning of the season,” he added.
The Vikings are 3-0 in the regular-season games they've played abroad — all in London.
As planned, two-time Pro Bowl tight end T.J. Hockenson returned Friday after the team opened his practice window. He tore the ACL and MCL in his right knee last Dec. 24 in the Vikings' Week 16 game last season.
“It was great, honestly, to see him in that helmet, to see him running around, to kind of be with the team, it's great,” star receiver Justin Jefferson said. “To see him happy out there running routes and being with the team again, I can’t wait until he’s fully back out there with us. That’s another dynamic force that we’re going to add to our offense.”
Hockenson, who started the season on the physically unable to perform list, will have 21 days to continue ramping up before the Vikings must add him to the active roster. He was limited in practice and officially ruled out for Sunday's game.
O’Connell said Hockenson “looked really good."
Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold says revenge is not on his mind when he faces his old squad.
“I wouldn’t say so, being pretty far removed from the Jets organization,” he said of the team that drafted him third overall in 2018.
He'll probably say hello to a few former teammates — defensive lineman Quinnen Williams, linebacker C.J. Mosley, safety Ashtyn Davis and long snapper Thomas Hennessy are the only players remaining from Darnold's last Jets team in 2020 — and some of New York's backroom staff.
“Other than that, for me it’s just a really good opportunity to play solid football,” he said.
Besides, Darnold has beaten the Jets before. In the 2021 season opener, after being traded in the offseason to Carolina, he led the Panthers to a 19-14 victory over the Jets.
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Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson, right, poses with Nausicaa Dell'Orto, Captain of the Italian women's national flag football team, during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold speaks during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings running back Aaron Jones speaks during an interview after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell speaks during a news conference after NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18), second left, works out during NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold (14) and Nick Mullens (12) look on during NFL football practice at The Grove in Watford, England, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.
Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.
Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.
But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.
More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.
The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.
More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .
“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.
Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.
A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
