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Walz to Trump after threat of troops: âLetâs turn the temperature downâ
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) made a direct appeal to President Trump to âturn the temperature downâ after the president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy more federal troops to Walzâs state amid escalating protests.âI am making a direct appeal to the President: Letâs turn the temperature down. Stop this campaign of retribution. This is not who we are,â Walz said in a post Thursday on the social platform X.
The governor also asked his constituents to avoid letting their demonstrations against the administrationâs immigration crackdown descend into chaos.
âAnd an appeal to Minnesotans: I know this is scary. We can â we must â speak out loudly, urgently, but also peacefully. We cannot fan the flames of chaos. Thatâs what he wants,â Walz said.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) also pushed back on Trumpâs threat, discouraging any further escalation.
âMinnesota needs ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to leave, not an escalation that brings additional federal troops beyond the 3,000 already here. My priority is keeping local law enforcement focused on public safety, not diverted by federal overreach,â Frey said in a post on X, responding to reporting about Trumpâs threat.
Instead............
Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders
The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into elected Democrats in Minnesota, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter, a major escalation in the fight between the federal government and local officials over the aggressive immigration crackdown underway in the city.The investigation would focus on allegations that Gov. Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, had conspired to impede thousands of federal agents who have been sent to the city since last month. Last week, one of those agents killed a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good.
Rather than comply with Walz's plea to turn down the temperature the regime's response was escalation, sending in more stormtroopers. And now it has employed its favorite tool of intimidation, a criminal inquiry.
Will this force ICE to follow protocol and the law when dealing with protesters?
Judge Restricts Immigration Agentsâ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters
A federal judge in Minnesota imposed restrictions on the actions of immigration agents toward protesters in the state on Friday, a decision that comes after weeks of mounting tension between demonstrators and federal officers.Judge Kate M. Menendez ordered agents not to retaliate against people âengaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity,â and not to use pepper spray or other âcrowd dispersal toolsâ in retaliation for protected speech. The judge also said agents could not stop or detain protesters in vehicles who were not âforcibly obstructing or interfering withâ agents.
The ruling, which granted a preliminary injunction, stems from a lawsuit brought by activists who said agents had violated their rights. The suit was filed before an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
Based on precedent there isn't any reason to believe the regime will obey a court order it disagrees with.
What's happening in MN is disorienting. It feels off. It's not normal. It's creating a kind of cognitive dissonance. Because the federal government of the US doesn't do things like this. Has never done them before. To my knowledge Ross, the agent who killed Good, has not been suspended pending an investigation as protocol dictates. ICE's activities have not been curtailed as decency dictates. Cooperation between federal and state officials has not been initiated as tradition dictates.
At the risk of redundancy the reason is obvious. The regime wants the disorientation, the feeling of abnormality, the dissonance. It wants us to feel hopeless, and powerless, in the face of the ongoing chaos it is fomenting. It's part of the plan. If it wasn't they'd have stopped by now.
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