DEMOCRATS' CHAOS OPERATION: Minneapolis Explodes After ANOTHER ICE Shooting
Minneapolis’s violent clashes with ICE—including the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Predi (10 times, after pepper spray and resistance) and Renee Goode—expose a Democrat-led "chaos operation," where sanctuary policies and rhetoric like Rep. Alex Falconer’s Signal-coordinated obstruction fuel unrest despite fewer deportations there than in red states. Governor Walz and Mayor Fry’s Nazi/Gestapo comparisons and calls to pull agents, paired with threats like Schumer’s shutdown push over DHS funding, escalate tensions, risking state nullification of federal law and potential civil conflict, while video evidence contradicts claims of Predi’s armed intent or terrorist motives. [Automatically generated summary]
An American citizen is shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis in another disputed circumstance, and all hell breaks loose in Minneapolis.
We'll break all of it down.
Why this is being driven by Democrats, what Republicans should do about it, how federal law enforcement should deal with all of this.
It's a mess.
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All hell has now broken loose in Minneapolis after another shooting involving federal officers and a person who is attempting to interfere with them in their pursuit of their legal duty.
That person's name was Alex Predi.
According to NBC News, a federal immigration agent shot and killed the 37-year-old Minneapolis man on Saturday.
This, of course, is the second shooting after the shooting of Renee Goode, who was the woman who attempted to obstruct federal law enforcement and then hit an agent with her car before being shot.
The man, again, identified by family as Alex Predty, was an intensive care nurse.
The circumstances around his final moments were caught on multiple angles on video.
We're going to go through all of the details and try to determine culpability, legal, and moral.
We're also going to go through why it is that the left continues to ramp up this chaos.
They are doing this on purpose.
There is no question this is a purposeful attempt to undermine federal law enforcement in their pursuit of duty.
And if that ends with ugly images on TV, that is the thing they want.
They want the ugly images on the TV.
They are desperate for the ugly images on the TV because they believe that that is going to undermine the Trump administration's immigration program and the Trump administration itself.
That is why they are doing this.
Let us be very clear.
There are more people being deported from red states than from blue states right now, but you're not seeing these ugly images happening in red states.
The answer is because red states are helping to facilitate the deportation of people who should not be here.
Red states are helping to ensure that criminal, illegal immigrants are not in the system.
And when they arrest somebody for a crime and that person is an illegal immigrant, they then tell federal law enforcement, federal authorities, ICE and Border Patrol, so the person can be deported.
Blue states, sanctuary cities, sanctuary states are not doing that.
That is what necessitates more boots on the ground from the federal government in these areas.
And then local and state politicians have been going out there and suggesting that this amounts to a Gestapo-like occupation.
They've been driving their own supporters out into the streets.
Some of those supporters are then obstructing federal law enforcement, committing federal crimes.
When that happens, the likelihood of terrible incidents goes way up.
That is the simple logic.
And that appears to be something that left-wing politicians want, that they are desperate for.
It appears to be something they think they can run on: that if they put ugly images on your TV of immigration agents in confrontations with Americans, and if some of those incidents end with death, then that means they will be able to undermine their political opposition.
And that is despicable.
It truly is.
Because again, we should all, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, be in favor of criminal, illegal immigrants going home, not being in the United States.
This is not a controversial issue.
That right there is not a controversial issue.
The necessity for larger federal presence, for harder implementation measures, is only being made necessary because there are Democratic politicians, members of the legacy media, who have decided to ramp all of this up and to facilitate the chaos.
This is indeed planned.
That is a reality.
So that ends with bad situations.
And we've been saying this for months, that if you have the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, coming out and saying that ICE agents are like the Gestapo or like the KKK, that if you have Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry saying the same, if you have all Democratic politicians suggesting that protesting ICE agents is not only a decent thing to do, but a positive and good thing to do, and then treating obstruction of federal law enforcement officers as a form of legitimate protest,
If you do that, you will end up with more confrontations, more violence, and more possible deaths under disputed circumstances.
It's more on this in a moment.
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So again, we're going to go through the tape in just a moment.
What happened is that on Saturday morning, Alex Predi appeared to come to the aid of a person who'd been pushed to the ground by immigration agents.
So there are a couple of people who are out there filming the immigration agents while they were attempting to effectuate some sort of arrest, apparently obstructing traffic.
Immigration agents come over.
There are two people there.
One is Predi, the other is a woman.
The woman seems to be pushed to the ground.
Predi then appears to move toward her.
An officer sprays Predi in the face before dragging him to the ground.
And then there are multiple officers who are surrounding Predi.
At some point, it appears that the agents believe that Predi has a gun or is going for a gun or both.
And they open fire on him and he is shot 10 times and he dies.
That is the cleanest way of describing the circumstance.
And as we'll see, it then turned into our usual political Rorschach test in which the left proclaimed that it was a case of pure murder.
And some members of the federal government, in my opinion, were not honest about what happened on the ground and told a story that does not seem to match up with the tape.
Now, again, there will be full investigations of all.
There should be full investigations.
And anybody who's claiming there should not be, of course, there should be.
There should always be full investigations, not because I believe the officers are guilty of murder or manslaughter.
There should be a full investigation because I believe that it will exonerate the officers.
And even if it didn't exonerate the officers, you need the full investigation in order to ensure that there's continued trust in law enforcement.
Those full investigations should go forward.
They should be perfectly objective.
They should not be railroadings, as we've seen in the past with, say, Derek Chauvin and George Floyd.
They should not be adjudicated in the media.
That's why the best response from everybody, from the federal government to Walls to Fry, it should always be the same.
There will be a full, thorough investigation.
And at the end of the day, the law enforcement apparatus will take stock of what has happened and all the facts will be made available to you.
That is what should the response should always be that on all sides because that is the only way that we end up with the impartial administration of the law.
That is the only way that happens.
Unfortunately, that never happened.
So we are now left with the tape.
So we're going to go through the tape and then I want to get into why it is again.
The biggest issue is why this stuff keeps happening in the first place.
And no, it is not just a matter of individual incidents that are randomly cropping up.
This is not random.
It is happening in a specific city at a specific time in a specific place for a reason.
It is being driven deliberately.
Again, I can't emphasize this enough.
It is being deliberately driven by members of the Democratic higher echelons.
It is being specifically driven by the legacy media.
Let's say, for example, the person has a gun and the person goes for the gun.
Or let's say that the officer believes the person has a gun for some good reason, like the person has a gun.
And then the person doesn't have the gun, which may in fact be the case, but the officer still believes he has the gun.
And so an accident happens where the officer believes a thing that isn't true, but in the moment, it's absolutely credible that the thing could be true.
You see this sort of circumstance where somebody goes for their waistband, and earlier they've been identified as having a gun, and in their waistband isn't the gun, it's something else, and they get shot.
Officers have to make these decisions in the moment.
That is the reality of the law enforcement job: you have to make that decision right there in the moment.
Okay, so that's angle number one.
Angle number two: this angle is a lot closer up.
This is if the first angle was sort of from far away.
Here, you can see the woman gets pushed to the ground, and Predi puts up his hand.
He's holding himself in one hand.
They spray him with some pepper spray.
Okay, and then they wrestle him to the ground.
He seems to be trying to still get this woman up.
Multiple officers wrestle him to the ground, they're on top of him.
Okay, and then he's now surrounded.
You can see the officers still surrounding him.
Somebody's blowing a whistle.
Obviously, there are multiple protesters nearby.
There's another woman who's attempting to resist arrest, it appears.
And then you hear one shot and then multiple shots.
A lot of shots, right?
And then Alex Predty dead on the ground.
Okay, so again, when this stuff happens in the moment, very difficult to tell what's happening in the scrum.
Okay, here's angle number three.
And this is the one where it looks as though Alex Predi was disarmed before the shot.
Okay, so you can see this one is, you know, kind of closer on his face.
Okay, they bring him to the ground.
So they get him down to the ground, wrestling him to the ground.
And these are the circumstances, obviously, under which ICE and Border Patrol are having to work.
Now, it is important to recognize here that Border Patrol is important to recognize here.
The Border Patrol, it was a Border Patrol agent apparently who shot him.
These are Border Patrol officers.
The reason Border Patrol is even in Minneapolis is because of the resistance to ICE.
Normally, internal immigration enforcement is not done by Border Patrol.
It is done by ICE.
When there is significant resistance on the ground, that's when ICE might call in extra help from Border Patrol.
Then the scene of the shooting was blocked off by the protesters.
And you can see they basically decide they're going to block off the area, set up their own autonomous zone, essentially.
Hey, this sort of activity is likely to result in more violence.
This is likely to result in more violence.
Valorizing people who get in the way of law enforcement while they're attempting to do their job is likely to result in more violence.
Stop blocking ICE from doing its job.
Stop resisting arrest.
If you do resist arrest while you have a gun on you, there's a much higher likelihood that the police are going to perceive you as a threat of physical violence.
And that's not a question of a normal protester carrying a gun, as we'll get to in a bit.
That is a question of don't resist arrest while obstructing a federal law enforcement operation while carrying a gun.
Put all those things together, and that is going to make your risk significantly higher than it otherwise would be.
Get to more on this in just one second first.
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Well, the protesters then gathered to talk about how they want to shut ICE down, which of course is their goal.
Okay, there's open coordination, by the way, happening via signal in Minneapolis between all of these protesters.
When we say protesters, very often we mean people who are legitimately stopping law enforcement from doing their jobs.
According to Cam Higbee reporting on all of this, there are 754 members in one of these chats.
The capacity is about 1,000 each day at midday.
New people cycle in for their shift.
There are a bunch of different chats for different zones of Minnesota.
They coordinate on where to go, how to obstruct operations.
They have what they call patrol zones in order to ensure that there are people there every time ICE shows up to effectuate some sort of arrest.
Protesters are coordinating on their own dispatch calls, by the way.
That is a thing they're doing.
They go online and they tell people when they discover a vehicle.
And then they have documentation going on.
The documentation is not obviously for some sort of prosecution.
The documentation is happening very often in real time in order to get protesters to the place where ICE is doing the thing, in order to get, in many cases, lawbreakers obstructing law enforcement.
Again, Cam Higby doing some excellent reporting over there.
Some of the people who've been participating in this include, for example, Minnesota State Representative Alex Falconer, who is coordinating Signal groups.
Here is this state legislator involved in coordinating this.
We've got a couple groups on the app signal that we would love for you to join.
Whether or not you want to be a part of the resistance network, I fully understand you may not be comfortable with that, but you can help us in a lot of ways by sending an alert that if you see any suspicious vehicles, any traffic, if you know of anybody that is being targeted, that's being detained, we have resources immediately available that we can send to you, send to their family, get them legal help, help the families if they need food, if people are afraid to leave their homes to get food.
We're working with the food shelves to try to figure out a way to deliver groceries.
I know yesterday, apartment complexes needed their parking lots plowed and people were being taken as they were moving their cars.
We can move your car for you.
Just please, anything, small, large, we are here for you.
These are these state legislators who are going out of their way now to facilitate all of this.
And they're not just facilitating protests.
Let's be clear.
If you know that these protesters are getting involved in the obstruction of federal law enforcement efforts, if you know that's happening, then encouraging that is not a good thing to do.
And we know that there's been violence, obviously, against a wide variety of ICE officers.
We've talked about the shooting of ICE officers or the attempted ramming of ICE officers.
We've talked about the fact that actually on Saturday afternoon, there's a picture released by DHS showing the bloody stump of a finger of one of the ICE officers.
Apparently, protesters are now biting the fingers off of federal officers in some cases.
Trisha McLaughlin said that this person is going to lose his finger.
A chunk of his finger was then shown in a jar by DHS.
Meanwhile, in the immediate aftermath of all of this happening in Minneapolis, according to the New York Post, anti-ICE protesters violently swarmed a Minneapolis hotel where they believed federal officers were staying, hurling items at people inside, smashing its windows, and graffitiing F-ICE across the building's facade on Sunday.
The large mob descended on the home two suites by Hilton Hotel late on Sunday as tensions gripped the Twin Cities one day after the killing of Alex Predty.
Apparently, they shoved and hurled the object at a Minneapolis police department officer and others just inside the hotel's lobby and attempted to push their way in, forcing those inside to use two large vending machines to physically block the rowdy demonstrators.
The protesters also banged on trash cans, slammed snow shovels, blew whistles, stomped, yelled, shown strobe lights on the hotel's facade in an attempt to disturb the federal officers who they believed were sleeping inside.
This sort of activity is being facilitated by politicians of the left.
It is that clear.
And that is the reason this is happening in Minneapolis and nowhere else.
Why is this not happening?
Again, in New Orleans, why is this not happening in Dallas, Texas?
Why isn't this happening in red areas?
The answer is very obvious.
Tim Walz, who's been absolutely abhorrent throughout this entire debacle, a terrible governor, a disgrace to the country.
This person was nominated for vice president of the United States by the Democratic Party.
Walls put out a series of tweets: quote, I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning.
Minnesota has had it.
This is sickening.
The president must end this operation, pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota now.
So I guess the basic idea here is that you won't help by actively facilitating the deportation of criminal, illegal immigrants.
And thus, you're going to facilitate the obstruction of law enforcement.
And then when things go bad, you're going to tell federal law enforcement to pull out.
So it's state and local nullification is what we are talking about right now.
And then he says, they think they can provoke us into abandoning our values.
We'll secure justice for our neighbors and we will see this occupation end.
Have you been doing keeping the peace?
How's that going for you, Tim Walz?
It seems like not so peaceful over there.
It seems like every time you say the protesters are doing something wonderful in the aftermath of somebody being shot or in the aftermath of violent demonstrations, it gets worse.
I don't think Tim Walz is interested in keeping things peaceful in Minnesota.
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 Bavino 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.
But here's what I do have confidence in.
There's a whole lot of Republicans for whatever reason cannot find their spine, but they might find the ability to know that they're not going to win another election as long as they live unless they stand up for what's right and stand up for the rule of law and stand up for human decency.
They're not doing, Alex Predty was not walking kids to school or feeding families.
He was in the street.
He was blocking traffic, apparently.
You can see in the tape, he's out there.
He's getting in the way of federal law enforcement.
I mean, he was resisting arrest.
Like, those are things that are happening.
This is why I say that very often these things become a Rorschach test.
And the sides are seeing completely different stories.
And none of them seem to be related to the actual tape that we saw in which life is messy and life is complicated.
But it appears that Alex Predi was obstructing federal law enforcement in performance of an operation and then resisting arrest and had a gun on him.
And then it appears from the tape that he was disarmed and someone mistakenly thought he was still armed and they heard a shot go off or something like that.
And then they shot him.
That appears to be the most objective way of describing the situation.
But according to Tim Walz, it's just a pure unprecedented premeditated murder.
Walls went on, by the way, to compare illegal immigrant children in Minnesota to Anne Frank.
No, I'm sorry.
No, wrong.
Ann Frank was not attempting to immigrate to the country from which she was deported.
Anne Frank was a citizen of the country in which she lived, and then she was sent to Auschwitz, where she died of typhus.
These are the moments that are not the easy ones, but these are the moments where character comes out.
I am receiving notes from around the world.
People identifying, and there's a lot of people saying, okay, I was sleeping on Minnesota.
And I think what you've done and what our neighbors are going through to see this, and I oftentimes told this story, I served on the China Commission in Congress, ironically enough, as co-chair with Marco Rubio.
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We used to bring in one of these political prisoners.
Okay, so when he talks about nonviolent resistance, what does it mean when people violently resist arrests, for example?
Is that nonviolent resistance?
Because that's what we've been seeing.
Is it nonviolent resistance when you block traffic like Renee Good did and then hit an officer with your car?
Is that nonviolent resistance?
What does he mean by this?
And again, the lines are pretty blurry here and they're being deliberately blurred.
Meanwhile, Jacob Fry, who is the awful mayor of Minneapolis, he put out a statement, quote, after today's shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order.
We need swift action to protect our city.
I have formally requested National Guard assistance to support our 600 Minneapolis police officers.
If it is the former that he's trying to stop ICE from doing its job by calling in the National Guard, then you have like an actual insurrection on your hands.
You can't have state law enforcement opposed to federal law enforcement.
That does not have a good history in this country or any other, so far as I'm aware.
Meanwhile, Fry said he did a presser, an overaw presser in which he said, how many more Americans need to die?
I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death.
How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?
How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?
How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city?
It's a chaos operation, and it's being promoted by everybody up to and including Barack Obama, the former president of the United States, who thus far I've seen no comments on his Twitter feed with regard to the murder apparently of tens of thousands of people in Iran, but he definitely has some statements about our border patrol and ICE agents.
Quote, the killing of Alex Predi is a heartbreaking tragedy.
It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
For weeks now, people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke, and endanger the residents of a major American city.
These unprecedented tactics have now resulted in the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
Again, that is not true.
That is a lie.
The idea that ICE pursuing its law enforcement duties is the thing that has resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens is wrong.
People walking down the streets, not bothering ICE or not getting shot.
People obstructing ICE operations and then getting into disputed altercations with ICE officers, sometimes well armed.
That is the thing that is going to end with bad things happening.
Clearly.
Obviously, the local officials have had their perspective on this as well, and they are mirroring the Democratic line.
The Minneapolis police chief was out there.
His name is Brian O'Hara, denouncing the ICE operations and what happened with Alex Predty.
Well, I've seen the videos just as thousands of people around the country have, and the videos speak for themselves.
I think it's deeply concerning the things that are being said.
This is an individual that was a city resident.
It appears that he was present exercising his First Amendment rights to record law enforcement activity and also exercising his Second Amendment rights to lawfully be armed in a public space in the city.
So I think very obviously there are serious questions that are being raised.
And I think the greater issue is even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting, it was legally justified, I don't think that even matters at this point because there's just, there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.
And if there's a full investigation and it finds that the shooting was justified, that doesn't matter.
That's the only thing that should matter.
Shouldn't it not?
I mean, like as a country where law is supposed to prevail, the impartial administration of justice is supposed to prevail, shouldn't the guilt or innocence of the officers at issue be the key issue?
But this is always the case with people who are promoting the left-wing narrative.
The narrative matters more than the fact.
It doesn't matter what actually happened.
It only matters what you think happened and what people feel about what happened.
Really, truly ugly stuff, particularly from a member of law enforcement, Senator Amy Klavichar of Minnesota.
She's also trying to stump on the space as she, of course, wants to run for governor of Minnesota in the wake of Tim Walz announcing he will not run for a third term.
What if we agree this is a tragic situation and that there should be a full investigation, but also believe that Democrats are operating under the guise of a chaos-driven mentality.
Gavin Newsom, who wants to run for president, is now suggesting that this is a police state.
He put this up in his press office, a press office he has denounced before when I interviewed him or is on his shows.
Technically, he was interviewing me.
He put out a statement via his press office.
You're seeing what's happening on American streets.
This is about a basically Stasi-type force of secret police that wear masks that are unidentifiable, that are unaccountable, that have leadership in the Trump administration, blatantly lying about what's going on when the American people can see the videos about exactly what's happening.
There is no police officer in the state of New Jersey that would A, act like that because we have training that far surpasses any type of misconduct like that, or B, should anything untoward happen, the other agents with that police officer would stop that immediately, and that person would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which is exactly what needs to happen with these ICE agents in Minneapolis.
So Democrats on the back of this are threatening another government shutdown.
According to the New York Times, bipartisan legislation to fund a broad swath of the government and avert a shutdown at the end of the week appeared to be in grave danger on Saturday as key Senate Democrats vowed to oppose it after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident.
The rapidly escalating opposition to the measure, which includes $64.4 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, including $10 billion for ICE, amplified the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.
The legislation requires the support of Democrats to muster the 60 votes needed to avoid the filibuster and advance in the Senate.
So Schumer wants the DHS funding bill to be cut out of the broader appropriations bill in an attempt to then have a debate over ICE and yell at the Trump administration over ICE operations.
So they're apparently willing to hold up the funding of the government again in order to go after DHS.
Not a surprise.
Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats from Maine, he is calling for a government shutdown essentially.
I'm one of the people that helped negotiate the solution to the last, the end of the last shutdown, but I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances, what they're doing in my state, what we saw yesterday in Minneapolis.
There's an easy way out, by the way.
Leader Thune could separate, which is what they did in the House, separate the five other appropriation bills, put them on the floor.
They would pass, I think, overwhelmingly.
Then let's take up DHS.
And by the way, if those bills pass, 96% of the federal government is funded.
Take up DHS by itself.
Let's have an honest negotiation, put some guardrails on what's going on, some accountability, and that would solve this problem.
Okay, we don't have to have a shutdown, but he wants a shutdown.
So glad to see the Democrats are, again, pushing forward with this narrative.
One of the things that we are seeing from the left is an attempt to import the sort of left-wing, bizarre ideological kinship with terror groups abroad to what's happening in places like Minneapolis.
Apparently, resistance to law enforcement, to legitimate law enforcement, is now to be considered virtue.
And if you can create enough quote-unquote atrocity stories, then you can undermine the enforcement of the law.
That seems to be the model of people like the disreputable Hassan Piker, who literally put out a tweet claiming, quote, the siege on Minneapolis is where you really see the West Bank occupation tactics on U.S. soil, constant militarized ICE presence on the streets, illegal detentions, killing people, trying to defend their neighbors, labeling them terrorists.
Again, it is this ideology that has now been translated into the anti-ICE operations that are being performed by groups like this.
And you have morons like Thomas Friedman, who spends all day at the New York Times.
He just goes to various countries and listens to taxi drivers and then thinks he has some sort of insight on the world.
He wrote a column today in which he claimed that ICE officers and Hamas militiamen are the same.
Because, quote, if you place a photo of an ICE officer next to a Hamas militiaman in a news quiz, I would defy you to tell them apart.
So basically, if people wear masks, they must all be the same.
That's the idea from genius Thomas Friedman.
Genius level stuff.
Okay, meanwhile, the Trump administration is responding.
Vice President JD Vance tweeted out something that is clearly true.
He said, this level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis.
It is the direct consequence of far-left agitators working with local authorities.
Obviously, that's right.
The president put out a statement as well, quote, this is the gunman's gun loaded with two additional full magazines and ready to go.
What is that all about?
Where are the local police?
Why weren't they allowed to protect ICE officers?
The mayor and the governor called them off.
It is stated that many of these police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves.
Not an easy thing to do.
Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 million in her account?
And where are the tens of billions of dollars that have been stolen from the once great state of Minnesota?
We are there because of massive monetary fraud with billions of dollars missing and illegal criminals that were allowed to infiltrate the state through the Democrats' open border policy.
We want the money back and we want it back now.
Those fraudsters who stole the money are going to jail where they belong.
This is no different from a really big bank robbery.
Much of what you're witnessing is a cover-up for this theft and fraud.
The mayor and governor are inciting insurrection with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric.
Instead, these sanctimonious political fools should be looking for the billions of dollars that have been stolen from the people of Minnesota and the United States of America.
Let our ICE patriots do their job.
12,000 illegal alien criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota.
If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today.
Because that is President Trump's response to all this.
And then President Trump suggested that he would be sending Tom Homan as well, the head of his border czar.
He said, quote, I'm sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight.
He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there.
Tom is tough but fair and will report directly to me.
Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive $20 billion plus welfare fraud that has taken place in Minnesota.
Okay, that is a good move, sending Tom Homan.
Cohen is a responsible actor.
And this brings us to other members of the Trump administration who make statements about disputed incidents like the death of Alex Predty that are not tied to the videos that we can all see or what appear to be the facts on the ground.
We saw this with Renee Goode when Christy Noam, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, suggested that she was attempting to mow down officers with her car.
At the very least, that particular narrative did not seem to be supported by the video.
In this particular case, Christy Noam, as this was all unfolding, came out and made a statement in which she suggested that Alex Predty was a domestic terrorist who wanted to inflict maximum damage.
This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at this scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.
About hundreds of protesters then showed up at the scene.
They began to obstruct and to assault law enforcement officers.
We saw objects being thrown at them, including ICE and other objects.
And a rampant assault began, and even an HSI officer agent's finger was bitten off.
Crowd control measures were deployed to bring safety to the public and to law enforcement at the scene.
And once again, I want to remind everybody that this situation and this tragedy did not have to happen.
Our law enforcement are doing everything that they can to protect the public.
We're praying for this deceased loved one's family and friends, but we also recognize that the Minnesota governor and the Minneapolis mayor need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
The idea that Christy Noam said this guy's a domestic terrorist who wanted to inflict maximum damage, that at the very least he wanted to kill law enforcement.
Let's just say that that is a matter under dispute.
He's standing there with the cell phone.
He is filming people when this whole thing begins.
If he wanted to kill law enforcement, presumably his gun would have been drawn at the very beginning.
You're allowed to protest while holding a gun.
We'll get to that in a moment.
Now, the best case for Christy Noam is that it is possible that he reached for what at that point was an empty holster.
It is unclear from the tape whether that is the case or not, or whether that triggered the shooting.
You said last night, it looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.
Did he say, I'm going to kill you, or did he leave a note?
You know, part of this investigation we'll be hearing from those agents and officers and people on the ground.
But we do know that he came to that scene and impeded a law enforcement operation, which is against federal law.
It's a felony.
When he did that, interacting with those agents, when they tried to get him to disengage, he became aggressive and resisted them throughout that process.
These officers used their training, followed their protocols, and were in fear of their lives and the people around them.
And that's how this tragedy unfolded, and we hope we never see it again.
Okay, so this is the part you should have been saying in the first place.
Why is the first iteration is the, he's a domestic terrorist who is trying to murder everybody.
And then the second iteration is the reasonable one.
The first iteration should be the reasonable one.
Why does that matter?
Because if you're going to appear, if you want this operation to be successful, if you want ICE to have the trust of the American people, then when things happen, you have to say a full investigation will take place.
These matters obviously are incredibly fraught.
Resisting arrest, obstructing federal investigations and federal law enforcement is a crime.
A full investigation is taking like that should be the original comment, not he's a domestic terrorist and he was obviously attempting to murder as many people as possible.
When you say that sort of stuff, it means that people, number one, aren't going to trust your investigation.
And number two, they are not going to trust you anymore because you have said something that does not appear to be supported by the tape.
Greg Bovino is one of the leaders of Border Patrol.
Again, it was a Border Patrol agent who apparently was involved in the shooting.
I've done that myself and fully support that, but not when you perpetrate violence, obstruct delay, or obfuscate Border Patrol in the performance of their duties in anti- There's no evidence that he was perpetrating violence.
And there's no evidence, unless you have it, and we'd love to see it if there is, that he was intending to massacre law enforcement other than the fact that he was there and he had a gun lawfully.
And there will be full investigations, but don't do it.
Let us enforce the law.
And now there's another line that was retailed by a couple of members of the administration that I think is the wrong line, suggesting that there is something wrong with protesting even with a gun.
Now, again, be specific in your language.
Don't resist law enforcement while carrying it.
Don't resist law enforcement at all.
And don't resist law enforcement while carrying a gun.
It raises the risk that somebody is going to see you as a deadly threat because you're carrying a deadly weapon, obviously.
That would be a normal thing to say.
But when Kash Patel at the FBI says no one who wants to be peaceful shows up at a protest with a firearm, that obviously is not true.
Democrats have started a PR war and a violent, a violent, chaotic conflict in Minneapolis, to say the very least.
Okay, so what should happen next?
That's the big question.
So there are some, James Comer, Republican, staunch Trump supporter, who suggests that maybe ICE should just pull out of Minneapolis, let them have at it.
If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, okay, if the mayor and the governor are going to put our ICE officials in harm's way and there's a chance of losing more innocent lives or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide, do we want to continue to have all of these illegals?
Are we going to allow our governor, attorney general, and mayor to get away with this?
And I think the people of Minnesota would rebel against their leadership because it's very clear that a majority of Americans want the criminal illegals apprehended.
Okay, so again, he's not the only one who's calling for a sort of pause or moving away from Minneapolis.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board suggests that President Trump would be wise to pause ICE enforcement in the Twin Cities to ease tensions and consider a less provocative strategy.
They admit that the left would then conclude their civil disobedience has paid off.
Because if the Trump administration continues to pursue operations the way that they are currently going, there will be likely more of these incidents because if people resist arrest and obstruct law enforcement, they are likely to meet with violent ends in some cases.
At the same time, if you abandon the city, then the apparent notice has gone out that if you're a blue city or a blue state, you can simply repel federal law authority by sending a bunch of protesters in the streets to obstruct federal law enforcement and maybe get shot on camera.
And you can't run a popsicle stand that way.
You can't run a country that way.
You can't enforce federal law that way.
In my opinion, the president of the United States should invite Governor Walls to the White House and Jacob Fry, and he should sit them down and he should say, listen, we are focused solely on enforcing the law with regard to criminal, illegal immigrants.
If you continue to obstruct that, we will continue to enforce the law, but federal money will go away for any projects to which we can legally remove that funding.
You make suggestions on how we can better facilitate the removal of criminal illegal immigrants.
We're not going to stop enforcing the law because you activate protesters.
We're not going to do it.
It's up to you.
You tell us how we solve this problem.
And one option that is not on the table is refusal to enforce federal law.
You tell us, what does that look like?
Because you're not helping us.
We would love your help.
You say that your local law enforcement is better trained.
And if you do not, if you get in the way of federal law enforcement, then whatever legal options we have are on the table to enforce federal law.
Because again, this is a systemic problem.
This is not merely a sort of one-off.
If the goal here is, if the idea from now on is that anytime there's a federal law enforcement agency that attempts to pursue the law, that local protesters can create chaos and then drive federal law enforcement out of their state, then you have effectively state nullification of federal law.
That really is the predicate to civil war.
It is a giant fail.
It should not happen.
But we're all ears.
If Governor Walls and Jacob Fry don't like the way that the law is being enforced in Minneapolis, show us how the law should be enforced in Minneapolis, short of it shouldn't be enforced at all, because it shouldn't be enforced at all is not a legally tenable position or a morally tenable position.
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