After the second brutal and apparently senseless DHS killing of an American citizen in Minneapolis just this month, Mayor Jacob Frey has had enough of the occupation. “How many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” he said. “How many times must local and national leaders plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this isn’t creating safety in our city?”
Videos verified and analyzed by The New York Times show that American citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun as the Department of Homeland Security has claimed, “when federal agents took him to the ground” and appeared to have “fired at least 10 shots within five seconds at Mr. Pretti while he was on the ground.”
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Frey said he is “done being told” that the Minneapolis community or its elected officials “are solely responsible for turning down the temperature. He noted that on Friday, 15,000 people had peacefully protested in Minneapolis “without a single broken window or injury.”
Addressing the Trump administration, Frey pointed out that the DHS occupation “is doing exactly the opposite” of achieving peace, safety, calm or prosperity. “The invasion of these heavily armed, masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity … has to end.” To restore safety, Donald Trump should “act like a leader” and put Minneapolis and America first and “remove these federal agents.”
Frey also issued a call to action for everyone to “stand with Minneapolis” and “Stand up for America.” Your children and grandchildren will ask, “What did you do to protect your nation?” he added.
