Noel King

We actually had a series of stories after George Floyd was murdered about the MPD, the Minneapolis Police Department's blue wall of silence.

And from what I can tell these past few weeks, it's really crumbled, at least as far as talking about other police agencies, just not something you see.

And yet Brian O'Hara, the MPD chief, is out there really hitting the federal law enforcement hard.

And it's been pretty breathtaking.

There is another thing that's going before a court in Minnesota today.

A federal judge is going to consider the question of whether this deployment violates Minnesota's sovereignty under the 10th Amendment.

What do you know about this legal challenge and what it might mean for ICE agents in the streets, federal agents in the streets?

Yeah, this one seems like a bit of a long shot.

It seems to me that the courts have given the executive branch wide latitude to enforce federal law.

It's also interesting that the claim here is it's a civil rights claim, and yet the 10th Amendment was used by Jim Crow as a

a way to defend southern state sovereignty during the civil rights movement.

So it's an interesting turn of events on that front.

I want to ask you about this statement that was signed by about 60, as I understand it, 60 CEOs.

Minnesota has a lot of big companies, right?

State is an economic powerhouse in some ways.

And so there was a statement sent out kind of like calling for calm, even as people had been asking, like, where are the business leaders?

Why are they not saying anything?

Do you feel like that statement does anything here?

Do you feel like that statement comes down on one side or the other?

I think it was carefully crafted to be neutral and it was taken by Democrats, including even the Democratic Farber Labor Party chair, as a betrayal because there's no neutrality in this situation.