Overview
- Walz said he told the White House that Minnesota investigators will take charge and urged residents to remain peaceful as the scene is processed.
- Inviting President Trump to visit, Walz called the Justice Department’s probe of state leaders a partisan distraction from accountability.
- The governor described the federal deployment as a “campaign of organized brutality” and ICE’s actions as an “absolute abomination.”
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey labeled the deployment an occupation and said masked agents beat a citizen before shooting him.
- ICE and Border Patrol leaders scheduled a briefing on Operation Metro Surge, which continues across Minnesota.