Walz: Quit Referring To ICE As Law Enforcement, This Will End When Enough People Say So
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) held a press conference on Saturday on another fatal ICE-involved shooting and announced he has activated the Minnesota National Guard.
REPORTER: You’ve made this request before. Is there any reason to believe that this will be answered differently? Have you had any conversations with the President, with the federal government? And is there any indication that they are going to pull out? GOV. TIM WALZ: I spoke twice this morning shortly before I received a call about this shooting. I spoke with the president’s chief of staff. The first request was to get these federal agents out of there. They were going to cause more chaos? And second call is, with no uncertain terms, that we will investigate this. We will not be stonewalled. What we’ve already seen, and you saw it this morning, before any investigation is done, you have the most powerful people in the federal government spinning stories and putting up pictures and unrelated people who we don’t know anything about and a picture of a firearm to try and spin a narrative. And I ask Americans, this will end when enough Americans say this will end. Do I have any confidence Donald Trump will do the right thing? No, I don’t have a lot of confidence Donald Trump will do the right thing. I do have a lot of confidence that the majority of the American people will do the right thing. And I think there cannot be very many people across this country looking right now, after all the reporting that’s been done, after everything that’s been said, under the pretense that they are here about immigration reform, and quit referring to these people as law enforcement. They are not law enforcement. We have law enforcement who do an incredible job. And to listen to Greg Bovino denigrate the work of our people who are out there cleaning up their mess, no, I don’t have a lot of confidence that he himself will do it.
