Minneapolis mayor says reported DOJ probe ‘intimidation’ amid ICE raids

Reports Trump medication is investigating apical Democrats successful Minnesota travel arsenic convulsive ICE crackdown continues.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has said helium volition “not beryllium intimidated” amid reports the Trump medication has launched an probe implicit comments helium made portion trying to curb convulsive migration raids successful the city.

Multiple media outlets reported connected Friday that the United States Justice Department had opened a transgression probe into Frey, arsenic good arsenic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who was besides the Democratic campaigner for vice president successful 2024, for impeding national instrumentality enforcement done nationalist statements.

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The probe was archetypal reported by CBS News, though it was not instantly publically confirmed by the Justice Department.

“This is an evident effort to intimidate maine for lasting up for Minneapolis, section instrumentality enforcement, and residents against the chaos and information this Administration has brought to our city,” Frey said successful a station connected X, responding to the reports of an investigation.

“I volition not beryllium intimidated. My absorption remains wherever it’s ever been: keeping our metropolis safe,” Frey wrote.

Walz responded indirectly to the reports that helium was besides being investigated, saying successful a statement: “Weaponising the justness strategy and threatening governmental opponents is simply a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.

“Two days agone it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly,” Walz added.

US senators Kelly, from Arizona, and Slotkin, from Michigan, are under investigation by the Trump medication aft appearing with different Democratic lawmakers successful a video urging members of the subject to defy “illegal orders” fixed by their superiors.

The medication has besides launched a transgression probe of Powell, a archetypal for a sitting Federal Reserve chair.

The reported probe of Frey and Walz came arsenic further details were revealed connected Friday of the shooting decease of Minneapolis nonmigratory Renee Nicole Good by Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman Jonathan Ross past week.

Fire section records showed that paramedics recovered the unfortunate unresponsive successful her car, with 4 evident gunshot wounds, including 1 to her caput and 2 to her chest.

Emergency responders tried to revive her, some astatine the country and successful the ambulance en way to the hospital. She was pronounced dormant little than an hr aft being shot.

The Trump medication has claimed that the ICE cause who changeable Good, and has not been charged implicit the killing, was acting successful self-defence.

Top Trump officials, including US Vice President JD Vance and White House advisor Stephen Miller, person said that ICE officers person “absolute immunity” for their actions.