Mary Margaret Olihan

And now somebody is dead.

They are not here to cause safety in this city.

What they are doing is not to provide safety in America.

What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.

They're ripping families apart.

They're sowing chaos on our streets.

And in this case, quite literally killing people.

I want Minnesotans to hear this from me.

I...

The desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is, that is a patriotic duty at this point in time.

My primary responsibility as governor is the protection of the people of Minnesota.

And you can be assured, whether it's the State Patrol or whether it's the National Guard, their deployment is there to protect Minnesotans from whatever it is.

If it's an act of nature, if it's a global pandemic, or in this case, if it is a rogue federal agent.

Minnesotans don't take the bait.

Do not take the bait.

Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here.

Do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Do not allow them to declare martial law.

Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state.

And let's let this investigation play itself out.