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Twin Cities Police Union Chief: These Deaths Are On Walz, Frey

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/29/twin-cities-police-union-chief-these-deaths-are-on-walz-frey-n3811330

The New York Post ran this yesterday morning as an "exclusive." It's so exclusive that few if any media outlets bothered to note this accusation from St. Paul Police Federation president Mark Ross.

The issue isn't sanctuary city policy per se, Ross tells the Post. Local police don't need to conduct immigration raids, as Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have declared. However, both the governor and the mayor, as well as commanders in the police departments, have ordered these departments to provide no cooperation with ICE and Border Patrol, even just for crowd control – and that has proven to be a deadly choice:

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“Since the Republican National Convention was held in St. Paul back in 2008, Minnesota law enforcement has undergone extensive training in mobile field force configurations and crowd management for major events. And because of that, I think we’re in the best position to deal with that,” Ross said.

“Unfortunately, our local politicians would not allow us to do that,” he added. ...

“Had we been allowed just a little bit of coordination –  not in terms of what ICE is doing, but if they say, ‘Hey, we need to go to this place to serve a warrant, we’re going to be out there a couple hours. We’re nervous that crowds are going to form and give us trouble. Can you come out and help?’ That’s something we can easily coordinate with a little bit of notice, and sometimes with hardly any notice, we can get out there quickly,” Ross said.

“I believe, had we been able to do that, that there would be no loss of life at this point,” he said.

Frankly, while I do not know the gooberment-police relationship details in Minneapolis, I still think this was overdue. Maybe the union guy tried to work out something behind the scenes,, but that police officers had been ordered not to do basic crowd control needed to be made public weeks ago. That's critical context for ICE/CBP operations and for what city gooberment has been doing.

We need a Federal HALO law.

"The Halo Law in Florida establishes a 25-foot buffer zone around first responders, such as police officers and firefighters, to protect them from harassment and interference while they perform their duties. Violating this law after receiving a warning can result in fines or jail time."

I don't know all that much about the educational system other than it makes a strong argument in favor of home-schooling. Teachers who actually prioritize the student's education are like a good cop in NYC. The system they belong to probably won't have your back if the going gets tough.

Great, sad but true, analogy. Many police officers understand that their city councils hate them, and police accordingly. I wonder how many teachers have made the connection that their schools' adminicrats will backstab them for fun and convenience.

misanthrope (9,414 posts)

If Pretti kicked a taillight a couple of weeks ago

It has nothing to do with him being disarmed then executed in a completely separate incident.

There is no "IF" about it.  His parents confirmed that the man in the video kicking out the tail light was their son

And it breaks the fairy tale that he was the left's narrative that he was just a kind, loving and caring ICU nurse who only wanted to help people.

1. The prior incidents, the attack on officers in which he destroyed the SUV tail light and an apparent attack on officers a few days later in which he claimed a rib got broken demonstrate that Alex Pretti* was an angry man with a proven record of violence.

2. The disarming happened AFTER Alex Pretti attacked the CBP officers, and the disarming and shooting were separated by hundredths of seconds, not separate actions or an "execution". Had Alex Pretti simply taken phone video and blown his whistle and not attacked the CBP officers he'd be blowing his whistle today.

* I'm still not "afraid" to say his or Renee Good's name, DU onlurkers.