Jacob Frey

And so, yeah, it's deeply concerning that they're getting put in the middle of it.

And at times they're even getting blamed for things that they didn't do.

We have worked so hard to generate trust between officers and community members over these last several years since George Floyd was murdered here.

And we've made huge strides.

I mean, community members, some of the most intense activists that did not like cops very much probably still don't are saying that our officers are doing the right thing.

But I think the question that you're getting to, which I'm not, I have not wholly answered yet, is like you're basically asking, can our cops arrest them?

From a legal perspective, yes.

From a practical perspective, to state the reality, yeah, it does get kind of hard when they drastically outnumber us and they have bigger guns than we do.

And here's the thing.

We don't want to create

Warfare in the street.

We want to keep our communities safe.

We're trying our very best to do that.

So nobody, our police officers, ICE agents, civilians, nobody can act illegally.

Nobody can.

And so we're trying to find the best way to prevent these ICE agents from acting illegally while not defending.

causing a firestorm on the street.

Am I saying it won't happen?

No, I'm not saying it won't happen.

What I'm saying is like, you know, I am in charge of keeping the peace and directing our police officers and I got to keep everybody safe.