JD Vance

I mean, our plan is very simple.

If you assault a federal law enforcement officer,

we're going to do everything that we can to put you in prison.

It's very simple.

And most of these protesters, as much as I may disagree with their politics, most of them have been peaceful, but a lot of them have not.

Respect people's rights.

Respect people's rights to worship.

Respect people's rights to do their job without being assaulted.

If you follow that basic principle, the Trump administration...

Everything that we can to protect your rights.

But if you go after somebody, if you assault somebody, if you make a nine-year-old girl cry because you walked into her church and harassed her, we're going to go after you with every single tool that we have.

Brother, you just defended a cop.

We can to lower the temperature and we would like federal and local, excuse me, state and local officials to meet us halfway.

Are you saying that they're not seeing that it's the tactics or the presence of the officers that are... Look, I'm sure that people are seeing a lot of things that would make any member of our national community feel very upset, but I also think

that if you understand this in context, this is the inevitable consequence of a state and local government that have decided that they're not going to cooperate with immigration enforcement at all.

In fact, they're going to aggressively not cooperate.

So here's a basic illustration of this.

If you are an ICE officer and you have to arrest a person who's committed assault and is also an illegal alien, but the state and local officials won't help you identify that person, many of the things that people in Minneapolis are seeing

that give them pause, that frustrate them, that worry them, that make them feel like things are too chaotic.

Many of these things are coming from the fact that there's no cooperation.