US curler Rich Ruohonen calls ICE operations in Minnesota 'wrong': 'There's no shades of grey'

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Another U.S. Winter Olympian at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is speaking out against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, specifically those carried out in Minnesota.

American curler Rich Ruohonen took time during a press conference to reflect on what’s occurred in Minneapolis recently, including the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.

Ruohonen, a personal injury lawyer in Bloomington, Minnesota, said "what’s happening in Minnesota is wrong — there’s no shades of grey."

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Rich Ruohonen joins fellow Olympians at the Team USA Welcome Experience at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Feb. 4, 2026, in Italy. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images)

"First of all, I’d like to say I’m proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country," Ruohonen began his statement. "But we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention what’s going on in Minnesota, and what a tough time it’s been for everybody. This stuff is happening right around where we live.

"I am a lawyer as you know, and we have a Constitution, and it allows us freedom of the press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. What’s happening in Minnesota is wrong — there’s no shades of grey. It’s clear."

Ruohonen has represented the United States at two world curling championships in 2008 and 2018, but this is his first time in the Olympics after unsuccessful trial runs in the past. He is set to become the oldest American ever to