Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey expressed frustration late Wednesday night while commenting about a federal law enforcement officer who shot an illegal Venezuelan immigrant shortly before 7 p.m. local time. Wednesday’s incident occurred a week after Renee Good was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Frey called the current climate in the city an “impossible situation” and “not sustainable.”
Frey spoke at a press conference about the shooting at 10:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday night.
“There’s still a lot that we don’t know at this time, but what I can tell you for certain is that this is not sustainable,” Frey said. “This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in, and at the same time, we are trying to find a way forward, to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order. And we’re in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street, to stand by their neighbors.”
“We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another,” Frey added.
Frey later took to social media to echo many of his statements from the press conference. He also called for peace, saying that “everyone” can contribute to enabling that peace and sustaining it.
“Tonight a man was shot in the leg by an ICE agent on the Northside,” Frey said in a social media post on X. “No matter what led up to this incident, the situation we are seeing in our city is not sustainable.”
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“I’m calling for peace. Everyone has a role in achieving that peace,” Frey said. He also encouraged protesters to not “take the bait.”
“I have seen conduct from ICE that is intolerable,” Frey said. “And for anyone taking the bait tonight, stop. It is not helpful. We cannot respond to Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos.”
