United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deployment of hundreds of federal police officers to Minneapolis following the death of an American resident by an ICE agent.
“We will continue to enforce the law: If individuals commit acts of violence against law enforcement or obstruct our operations, that is a crime and we will hold them accountable for the consequences,” said U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem during an appearance on the U.S. “Sunday Morning Futures” program.
Before, in a Secretary accused Democrats of “encouraging” violence against ICEthe arm of the US administration’s offensive against illegal immigration in the United States, which has been declared a national priority.
Kristi Noem reiterated the official version of events as self-defense, referring to what happened as a act of “domestic terrorism”.
Despite several Democratic politicians, most notably the governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltzand the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Freydispute this explanation, based on video footage, the Secretary of Homeland Security accuses them of having “excessively politicized the situation”speaking “inappropriately” about what is happening there.
“They inflamed public opinion. They encouraged the type of destruction and violence that we have seen in Minneapolis in recent days,” he declared.
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Democratic parliamentarians are particularly critical of the fact that local investigators were excluded from the FBI investigation. The investigation must be “neutral, impartial and based on facts”the mayor of Minneapolis reiterated this Sunday, in an interview with CNN.
Jacob Frey still considered the actions of activists organized to try halt immigration enforcement operations the type in which the victim was participating.
“Of course, laws must be followed, obviously. But there is also an obligation to comply with them and to conduct police operations in a manner consistent with the Constitution,” said the Minneapolis mayor, giving examples such as “pregnant women being dragged through the streets” and “high school students” being detained without reason.
