Overview
- Jacob Frey was sworn in at the Pantages Theatre alongside the 13-member City Council, the Park and Recreation Board, and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
- The council re-elected Elliott Payne as president, chose Jamal Osman as vice president, named Aisha Chughtai majority leader, and selected Robin Wonsley as minority leader.
- Frey outlined priorities that include expanding housing, growing the Minneapolis Police Department and behavioral crisis response, revitalizing downtown and Uptown, and carrying out consent-decree reforms.
- Protesters calling for accountability in the deaths of Allison Lussier and Mariah Samuels interrupted the ceremony, with two people escorted out as activists pressed for a $5 million domestic-violence investigative unit and formal acknowledgments of police failures.
- Frey criticized federal dysfunction, pointing to funding cuts and a recent uptick in immigration arrests and raids affecting city neighborhoods.