Chapter 1: What are the concerns of Minneapolis residents regarding local leadership?
and i was really hopeful when i heard uh tom homo is appointed they're moving out fresh blood but what we're seeing is uh we swapped out the manlet freak for job of the hud uh there's a cnn town hall with uh about ice by the way uh we're going to be watching that right now jacob fry is live on cnn hopefully they cook his a little bit hopefully they fry his a little bit
Mayor, I want to introduce to you Sophia Karanakis. She is a law student here in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. Sophia, what's your question?
So what do you have to say to those who are arguably the majority who feel that harsh words and public statements are not enough to address this crisis? Yes! I would say that they are exactly right. Words alone are not going to do anything. And that's why in the city of Minneapolis, we are taking clear action to change this. And the battlefield that we operate on is the battlefield of the law.
We are right, legally. The actions that have taken place in our street are unconstitutional. You can't randomly yank off the street a person because they happen to look Somali or they happen to look Latino. You can't detain United States citizens, rip them away from their family, and they don't even know where they went. Brother, you literally are responding with more words, okay?
Like, the person is like, can you give us more commitments beyond words? And he's like, well, let me tell you, I got the best words. I got the best words. This is for the record why I was saying these guys are not meeting the f***ing moment. And all these like stupid ass f***ing liberals on the timeline were yelling at me over this. Being like, why are you yelling at the Democrats? I'm not.
I'm offering a voice to the f***ing people of Minneapolis that also want their f***ing local administrators to do something. Afraid to go outside, taking a watch at a daycare to make sure that their friends, their neighbors, our family, we are a collective family, that they're safe. And if there's inspiration to take, take it from them.
Take it from the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Minneapolis and Minnesotans that are standing up saying, you know what? We are better united. We are better together. And that, if nothing else, has been ridiculously powerful. I've never been prouder to be from Minneapolis. Mayor, one of those people, Alex Preddy, was out there taking video.
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Chapter 2: How does Mayor Jacob Frey respond to community questions about action?
And many things have been said about him by the administration. You heard words from Stephen Miller. You heard words from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. You heard from Commander Greg Bovino. all saying things about him, calling him a domestic terrorist, saying he was there to massacre police.
Has anyone from the administration apologized to you or anyone in your administration or any officials here in Minnesota about what they initially said about Alex Preti? No. And look... Alex Pretty, we saw this from the video involving your dad, Mac. Clearly a person that cares deeply about this country, that cares about other people beyond himself. Let's be real.
They're worried about starting a civil war. Brother, I hate this counter argument. You want to know why? Because there is already a war taking place. So the option here is to just roll over and die. What are you saying? Like, what do you mean? I mean, it's indicative of him. The goal here is to apply pressure to make it costly, to develop a response that will make it costly.
Trump already is on the back foot.
Chapter 3: What actions is Minneapolis taking to address unconstitutional practices?
It already worked. And it worked in spite of these idiots. It worked because the people rose up. So that is what we're hearing from them now. It's here already. People that say, oh, the response to the Civil War, it's like, brother, it's over then.
If there is no response whatsoever, and we don't actually make this a costly endeavor for the Trump administration, they're just going to do it over and over again. That's why when I went out there, I said Minneapolis is new, and it's not just for their own neighbors, but for the rest of the country.
Mayor Frey, what material commitments are you making to community members, our community members, who have been harmed, detained, or have had their loved ones brutalized? As the mayor of the city, what concrete actions will you and the city of Minneapolis take, such as providing financial support, coordinating resources, or pursuing legal action?
all of the above, providing financial support, coordinating legal resources, and of course, pursuing action. These are actions that are underway, and we need to bolster them even further. So first, We are proactively and responsibly suing, suing based on the unconstitutional conduct that is happening in our streets.
Second, we are working with a number of victims of these unconstitutional actions to try to hook them up with organizations where they can themselves have standing to sue. Third, we have a task force that is set up so that we've got communication channels that are in line so that we get through this most difficult of situations.
And finally, look, our entire city enterprise has been operating over the last several weeks, if not months, to do everything possible that we can to keep our residents safe and to have an emergency response to what's presently taking place. And that includes things like having our community service officers deliver food.
These are soon-to-be police officers deliver food for people that would otherwise be afraid to go out of their homes. This is everything that's happening through offices of immigrant and refugee affairs to make sure that they have legal supports in place if and when they need them. You know, and here's the other truth. Is it enough? And this is real. No. No, and I'm sorry.
I never in a million years would I have imagined that this kind of thing would happen in America, that the Department of Justice would be weaponized against local people and elected officials, that we'd have this broad invasion of thousands of agents, not to keep people safe, but causing chaos in our street. And so I'm sorry to you, to your community,
and to your soon-to-be profession as a lawyer. We're going to take a short break. We'll have more questions from our audience. You've never been more alone in your life than at this very moment. We've never been more alone. As far as demanding that our electeds do something, it's crazy. He should have listened to Omar Fateh.
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Chapter 4: What commitments are being made to support affected community members?
So I, along with 200 or plus thousand Minnesotans, have a concealed carry permit. I believe that you have an absolute right to carry a firearm in the streets of Minnesota. Again, there's a lawful way to do it. Except. And if you are. If you want, you have a responsibility as a gun owner and as a carry holder to be judicious about when and where you carry your firearm. I've been to protests.
I don't carry there because it's a dangerous situation. I'm not saying that that's lawful. I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying that you have a responsibility to be judicious in how you choose to exercise that right and all of your rights. So, no, I guess I disagree with the president on that. You certainly have a right to bring a firearm. That right ends.
when you choose to physically engage with law enforcement. You no longer have a right to carry in that situation. Once you take unlawful actions, you've lost that right. What if you're just using your cell phone to record them? Yeah, so, and again,
When you look at the totality of that circumstance, right, this isn't somebody that was sitting on a sidewalk who was detached and disengaged and recording. This is somebody who was in the street who was struggling. That was a rough thing to watch, and my heart goes out to that family. It really does. But, again, when it comes to the constitutional right to carry a firearm, absolutely he had it.
Absolutely he was allowed to bring it. I don't think that in that situation, I would have made that choice. In fact, I know I wouldn't have. And I certainly wouldn't. I'm a pussy. I would never save another woman from being shoved into the ground by an unaccountable Nazi investigation. I don't think that it's up to me. I don't presume to be the. Do these guys all get the same JD guy liner?
Is that what it is? What's going on here? Did they build these guys in the same factory? Is this another Petersdale blood boy? What's going on? Yeah, there's a lot of agencies in the federal government. There's millions of people that work for the federal government. I believe that they can conduct a proper investigation. I can't stand these motherfuckers, bro. Oh my God.
Good luck defending this.
What specific actions will you support in the next legislative session to address both the immediate fallout from these deadly encounters and the broader question of how Minnesota navigates federal immigration enforcement while safeguarding civil liberties?
One difficult thing about this whole situation is the federal government and the state government... This is conflicting, okay? There's a lot going on with this outfit. Hat's cool, but then I'm looking at the bottom. Every single law. Every time it contradicts. The federal government has preeminence. So we're really limited in what we can do. Get it out of your system before Black History Month?
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Chapter 5: How is the role of federal agents being discussed in the community?
And you may have seen this angle, one of the closest to the incident, filmed through a car windshield. Up until now, we had not heard from the young woman behind the camera about what she witnessed that day. Her name is Kayla Schultz. She's coming forward. She sat down with me earlier today. Here's some of what she told me. He was trying to save the life of that other person. Take a look.
I am scared of speaking out and having this public, having my face out there and my name. But if I... He died a hero. He's a good man. And they f***ing murdered him, dude.
And now these sons of bitches are running around being like, well, don't you think he deserved to get killed because he f***ing broke the taillight 11 days prior to his assassination.
They want us to be scared, intimidated into silence. I... I can lose my safety. I can lose security. They can take everything away from me, but they can't take my voice. They want us to be intimidated.
They feed off it.
They escalate in every single way if they are not able to use that fear in order to intimidate us into backing down.
So if you're not intimidated, they escalate.
And that's exactly what happened to Alex. He did not let them intimidate him. In fact, he stood up for two women, but they were absolutely brutalizing. And that made them mad that they were not able to intimidate him into tucking his tail and leaving.
Your camera is actually the closest camera to that moment of the Border Patrol guy shoving these women onto the sidewalk. But that is, it's the closest, and you have the closest vantage point of them being pepper sprayed.
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Chapter 6: What is the impact of federal immigration enforcement on local safety?
You've been to a Walmart. They sold rifles for a reason someplace to get off of school for the first day of the hunting season. Yeah. I just, to me as someone who only came to the United States of America and has lived here almost half my life now, but basically for me, it's like, that's peak America. Okay. You are the most American when you're hunting, you're the most American.
No one is more American than a guy who hunts, especially in a deer stand.