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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called for calm amid growing protests, changing his tone after demanding in recent days that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “get the f— out” of the city.
Frey appeared at a recent news conference following the shooting of an illegal immigrant from Venezuela in the leg after allegedly stabbing a federal agent with a shovel.
“I’m asking for peace,” Frey told reporters. “Everyone has a role to play in achieving that peace – and we will try to do everything we can to keep it.”
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks to the media at City Hall on Jan. 9. (Aaron Lavinsky/Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Frey has repeatedly criticized ICE’s immigration enforcement operations, and has called for ICE to leave Minneapolis.
“There is still a lot we don’t know yet, but what I can tell you is that this is not sustainable,” he said. “This is an impossible situation that our city is put in right now.”
“We are in a situation right now where we have citizens asking for a limited number of police officers to fight ICE on the street,” he added. “We cannot be in a place right now in America where we have two branches of government fighting each other.”
He said ICE and US Border Patrol agents are “causing chaos,” though many have confronted, sometimes violently, protesters angered by the Trump administration’s campaign.
“I have seen ICE behavior that is disgusting and intolerable,” he said.
He urged protesters not to “take the bait” of President Donald Trump.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for calm amid violent protests against federal authorities. (Getty Images)
“And to anyone who takes a beast at night, stop,” he said. “That’s not helping … You’re not helping undocumented immigrants in our city. You’re not helping the people who call this place home.”
The way the mayor is speaking is very different from the negative one we presented last week following the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
“ICE, get the hell out of Minneapolis. We don’t want you here,” Frey said at a press conference after the shooting. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of security, and you are doing the opposite of that.”
On Wednesday, Frey maintained that he did not engage in violent discussions.
“Show me one place where I have encouraged anything but peace. Show me one place where we have encouraged violence,” added Frey.
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The Department of Security said the officer opened fire on an illegal immigrant who allegedly fled the traffic stop and hit the agent with a shovel.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Sedition Act if local authorities fail to regain control.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota disobey the law and stop professional insurgents and insurgents from attacking the Patriots of ICE, who are only trying to do their job, I will enact a WATCH LAW, which many Presidents have done before me, and immediately put an end to the corruption of that once great State of Truth.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Thursday urged Trump to “turn down the heat.”
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ICE responded with a post on X.
“The buck stops with you, Governor,” the post said. “Reduce the vicious, aggressive rhetoric against ICE. Respect our immigration detainees. And work with ICE to remove illegal neighborhood criminals from the streets of MN.”
