Ted Cruz

Local police are working with the federal government.

Immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota, the governor, the mayor, the local officials have decided to to well, to use Tim Walz's word, go to war with the federal war.

You have Democrat politicians who are behaving with reckless irresponsibility, urging citizens go out, find ICE, confront ICE, get in their way, frustrate them, block them from arresting violent criminals, from arresting murderers, from arresting gangbangers, from arresting child molesters.

And and and you see those efforts that that really the flames being fanned as you use rhetoric calling federal law enforcement officers Nazis or Klansmen or Gestapo.

Well, that that that leads to the temperature going up and up and up.

I'll say secondly, just a word of of advice to anyone who is in an interaction with law enforcement.

which is don't do anything on your own side to escalate.

If you are driving a vehicle, an SUV, and you drive that vehicle directly into a law enforcement agent, the odds are quite significant you will be met with lethal force.

That's true in Minnesota.

It's true most places across the country that if you respond to law enforcement with violence, you are risking your own safety and your own life.

Likewise, this latest shooting, look, as we sit here today,

We don't know all the facts.

And one of the things I would urge people to do is not to just leap to conclusions.

Anytime you have an officer involved shooting, there's always an investigation.

That is standard practice in just about any context.

And so there'll be an investigation here.

You and I have both seen a number of the videos.

It is hard to tell from the videos exactly what happened.

There's a lot of day after quarterbacking going frame by frame.

What I can tell you is this.