Mayor Jacob Frey: Federal Government Has Jumped To Conclusions From The Very Beginning
On SiriusXM’s ‘Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,’ host Stephen A. Smith spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on the Trump Administration’s behavior in Minnesota over federal agents and investigations:
MAYOR JACOB FREY: No uniforms. What would you call that? And look – it is horrific. I want to make sure that a full and fair investigation takes place. And I don’t want to detract from that. We need justice right now. We need justice, we need truth. And clearly we haven’t seen that when you have a federal administration, people in federal government, you know, jumped to conclusions from the very beginning that the agent that killed Renee Good was just operating in self-defense. And that Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. I mean, we’ve seen how they’ve tried to paint Alex Pretti as well. And you know, yeah, I’ve got a deep issue with that. These are our neighbors. STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: How are you feeling about Border Czar Tom Holman being sent to Minneapolis? Have you spoken to him, first of all, and how do you feel about his presence there? And Mr. Bovino now being gone and sent back to his regular post and what have you, what are your thoughts about that? MAYOR JACOB FREY: Well, we met with the Border Czar Tom Homan just yesterday, had a productive meeting. And so I want to obviously continue to work wherever we can to draw down this operation to end Operation Metro Surge. And I’ve expressed to him what I expressed to you, which is, look, of course we are willing to partner to keep people safe around violent crime. But again, let’s keep the focus on violent crime. We’re all for reducing murders and homicides and carjackings in the city of Minneapolis. And I also made clear that we’ve got a separation ordinance in the city of Minneapolis. We don’t we don’t force federal immigration law. We do our jobs. We have a job to do. Our jobs as Minneapolis and our police department is to keep people safe.
