Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey launched a furious attack on ICE after an officer gunned down a Minneapolis mom during an immigration operation Wednesday — leading a charge of local Dems who blasted the feds and immediately said the shooting was not justified.
“To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey said during a fiery press conference after the deadly shooting.
“Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
The blistering rhetoric from Frey, lame-duck Gov. Tim Walz and other leaders in Minnesota led critics to accuse them of stoking the flames.
“To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Mayor Frey said during a fiery press conference after the shooting.
“What is Jacob Frey thinking? Does he want his city to burn again?” Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones III said on social media.
Walz, meanwhile, suggested the state was “at war” with the federal government at his presser immediately after the ICE agent shot and killed an anti-ICE protester who authorities said tried to mow down an immigration officer with her car.
“I said this yesterday, we’ve never been at war with our federal government,” Walz said in response to a reporter’s question about whether National Guard troops would disobey their orders if they were deployed against federal agents.
“I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine,” he wrote on X.
“The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
Republican Minnesota state Rep. Elliott Engen said Walz — the failed 2024 vice presidential candidate — has been riling up residents against ICE, when he should be calling for calm.
“A lot of the people who are supposed to be quelling the potential issues are stoking the flames right now including Tim Walz who said ‘the Minnesota National Guard stands ready to assist, but they’re the Minnesota National Guard and they won’t be participating in any of the federal governments targeted attacks on our immigrant communities,’” Engen said.
The reactions came within a few hours of the 𝒄𝒂𝓊𝓰𝒉𝓉-on-camera ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, whom the Department of Homeland Security labeled a “domestic terrorist” who was trying to run down agents.
Video appears to show her SUV clipping the agent as he opened fire.
“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 them — an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in an X post.
But Frey claimed ICE agents were the real terrorists.
Frey was just one of numerous leaders who sounded off as footage of the shooting emerged.X/@maxnesterak
“People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long term Minneapolis residents that have considered so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead. That’s on you,” Frey said.
“And it’s also on you to leave. It’s on you to make sure further damage, further loss of life and injury is done,” he added, promising to “work towards justice.”
Dramatic footage captured an ICE agent firing a handgun almost point-blank at a 37-year-old woman to tried to speed off in her SUV as agents ordered her out of the vehicle.X/@maxnesterak
Other local lawmakers also expressed their outrage.
Sen. Tina Smith (D, Minn.) pointed out that the dead woman is a US citizen, and called for ICE to withdraw from the city.
“A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile,” she wrote on X.
“ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety. Please be safe Minneapolis,” Smith added.
The woman was a protestor attempting to block ICE officers carrying out an operation in the middle class neighborhood.Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV
And firebrand leftwing Minneapolis Rep. Ilhan Omar echoed them all.
“ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city,” she wrote.
The Trump administration, however, has remained firm in its position, and critics blamed Dems for creating the tension with ICE — including roving teams of anti-ICE protesters who have been confronting agents as they operate in the city.
“The mayor’s comments were probably some of the most unintelligible, unhinged comments I think I’ve heard in quite some time,” former acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News.
“Clearly he’s placing the blame 100% — based off of probably one video that he has seen — on ICE agents.
“Saying that they have inflamed the situation, that they are there to do all sorts of chaos in his city. He lays no blame at all at the individuals that are impeding law enforcement.”