Jacob Frey

And the whole thing is, by the way, kind of wildly ironic, right?

Because it's the Minneapolis police that in the past have been the ones that, you know, have had sort of a federal consent decree that has been pushed, that we have all been pushing to carry out.

Meanwhile, you've got the federal government that's doing this kind of garbage right now.

And so, no, they're not holding themselves to the same standard at all.

Yeah, I get it.

And there's a greater good here.

And I'm so proud, by the way, of so many people throughout our city.

that have united around, yes, getting justice, yes, First Amendment speech, yes, peaceful protest, and also, importantly, not taking the bait.

We stand by our immigrant neighbors.

We will say it till we're blue in the face.

And one of the ways that we need to stand by them is not giving this federal administration an excuse to come in here with a greater occupying force.

And so I have seen activists themselves de-escalate a situation with other activists.

I've seen people pull other people back, say, hey, don't do that.

That's not who we are.

We care about our immigrant community and this could ultimately hurt them.

And so, you know, I'm hopeful that that is going to continue right now.

But, you know, thus far, in many instances, yeah, I'm proud that things have not escalated to that point.

What I'll say is multiple truths here.

First, the first truth is that this like apocalyptic hellscape that the far right is trying to paint on Minneapolis is just bullshit.

It is just garbage.