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Interview Only w/ Mayor Jacob Frey - Minneapolis Is Under SIEGE By ICE & DHS · The Chuck ToddCast

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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me now is the mayor of Minneapolis. It's Jacob
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  Speaker 1: cried mister Maher. I appreciate you taking a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, just we get a few you know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that why I appreciate the longer
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  Speaker 1: form is that we can put some context, so just
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  Speaker 1: in a quick summary, because a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know what is the what powers individual mayors have. Right
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  Speaker 1: in some cities it's a strong mayor. Some cities, it's
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  Speaker 1: a weak mayor. Some cities it's up to the mayor
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  Speaker 1: who the police chief is. Others it is not. So
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  Speaker 1: give me the quick structure on law enforcement in your
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  Speaker 1: authority over law enforcement. How much it's you, how much
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  Speaker 1: it's the city council.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, we began officially shifting our structure
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  Speaker 3: of government to what is known as a strong mayor system.
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  Speaker 3: I just call it a regular mayor system. It's sure
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  Speaker 3: Innneapolis and St. Paul and Duluth in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago is a strong mayor's system where the executive runs
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  Speaker 3: the day to day operations and the council is like
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  Speaker 3: the congress. They as laws or.
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  Speaker 1: More of a legislature, also participating in the executive functions.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. So the police, for instance, report up
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  Speaker 3: through the commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, so you appoint the police commissioner or does the
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  Speaker 1: city council have a saying that.
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  Speaker 3: I appoint the Commissioner of Safety and the police of
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  Speaker 3: chief the chief of police. Our council then confirms the appointment.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha? So I say this because when it comes to okay,
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  Speaker 1: so let's take the so called phrasing of sanctuary city, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I know you. At first it was an executive order.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's been codified in the city law, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess what is the line between city and state and
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  Speaker 1: then what is the line between city and federal in
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  Speaker 1: this sanctuary law.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're asking all the right questions. So we have
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  Speaker 3: had what is called a separation ordinance in place well
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  Speaker 3: before my time, right, with that order on some twenty
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  Speaker 3: plus years, right, it's been quite simple, and it's virtually
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  Speaker 3: been the same throughout that entire time period. The Council
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  Speaker 3: lamented it a little bit recently, but it's virtually the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. And the basis of it is this is
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  Speaker 3: that our police officers, our officials at the City of Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 3: do not coordinate with any federal agency around immigration enforcement work. So,
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  Speaker 3: in other words, we will not work with ICE or
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  Speaker 3: any other federal agency that has been deputized around immigration
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  Speaker 3: enforcement work. We do work with them around general safety,
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  Speaker 3: crime prevention, driving down homicides, that kind of stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: we also won't ask people as to their documentation status.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we haven't asked somebody their documentation status,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't gathered any information, And because we haven't gathered
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  Speaker 3: any information, when Donald Trump or anybody else asks us
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  Speaker 3: for all of our information, our answer is quite simple,
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  Speaker 3: which is we don't have it right.
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  Speaker 1: What is the line of when you think somebody's immigration
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  Speaker 1: status matters when you have a interaction with a resident
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  Speaker 1: of your city.
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  Speaker 3: For purposes of safety, It doesn't for purposes of calling
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  Speaker 3: nine to one one, It doesn't. You know, I want
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  Speaker 3: our police officers spending their limited and valuable time keeping
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  Speaker 3: people safe, driving down murders, arresting carjackers, doing all the
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  Speaker 3: basic stuff that any police officer would need to do
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  Speaker 3: on a daily basis. I don't want them spending a
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  Speaker 3: single second hunting down some father who just dropped his
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  Speaker 3: kids off at daycares about to go work a twelve
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  Speaker 3: hour shift, who happens to be from Ecuador. Like that
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  Speaker 3: guy makes our city a better place. And so, as
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  Speaker 3: far as you know, what is the line. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you committed a murder or you shot
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  Speaker 3: a gun. I don't care where you're from. I don't
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  Speaker 3: care who your parents were. You know there are consequences
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  Speaker 3: for that, But I don't get the sense of spending
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  Speaker 3: limited resource is on Immigration.
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  Speaker 1: If ICE comes to the city of Minneapolis and says,
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  Speaker 1: we believe you have a criminal in custody, will you
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  Speaker 1: release that criminal to us if they have proof that
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  Speaker 1: this individual is a criminal? What is the policy of
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  Speaker 1: the police force at that point.
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  Speaker 3: So there's parts where we are involved and there's parts
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  Speaker 3: where we are not arresting that criminal. We are involved,
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  Speaker 3: and we will work with federal agencies to arrest that criminal. Now,
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  Speaker 3: remember the whole concept of deportation is on the civil side.
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  Speaker 3: But we will work with federal agencies to get a
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  Speaker 3: guy that has done bad dates, murders, carjackings, whatever it
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  Speaker 3: might be. We at the city, however, don't control the jail.
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  Speaker 3: So the whole concept of.
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  Speaker 1: The interest that is that is the Canneban County.
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  Speaker 3: Now he runs the jail. That is the jail. And
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  Speaker 3: then the state, who has provided quite a bit of
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  Speaker 3: information recently about how they actually do work with immigration
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  Speaker 3: and ICE to provide, you know, to you know, not
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  Speaker 3: let murderers back on the street. That's through the state.
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  Speaker 1: Like any situation, I assume you tried diplomacy first, meaning
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  Speaker 1: you know, you knew a new administration was coming in
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  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. What were those conversations like before
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  Speaker 1: this escalated to what it has become today, walk me
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  Speaker 1: through your interactions you had with DHS or with ICE,
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  Speaker 1: or with any part of the federal government before it
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  Speaker 1: got to where what you're having to deal with in
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  Speaker 1: the moment.
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  Speaker 3: With this administration, it was a pretty quick zero to
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  Speaker 3: one hundred, not as far as this operation goes, but
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  Speaker 3: as the general mentality of what they were doing. And look,
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  Speaker 3: you always expect different ideologies and value use with a
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  Speaker 3: new administration, especially a new administration that is of a
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  Speaker 3: different party, but this is something entirely different. Even from
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  Speaker 3: the first Trump administration. We did not see this kind
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  Speaker 3: of conduct to this degree with the first Trump administration.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it was probably twenty or thirty days
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  Speaker 3: or something like that, maybe even less after Trump was
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  Speaker 3: sworn into this term. I got a letter on my
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  Speaker 3: desk from I believe the Office of Management and Budget.
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  Speaker 3: They quite literally said that all grants that were provided
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  Speaker 3: to the City of Minneapolis totally somewhere in the range
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  Speaker 3: of seventy million dollars would be cut off. And the
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  Speaker 3: basic lever that they were trying to pull was, you
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  Speaker 3: will lose this money if you don't get rid of
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  Speaker 3: all diversity work and stop the separation.
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  Speaker 1: Which I want to put up, which federal governments have
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  Speaker 1: tried to do with cities and states for decades. Right
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  Speaker 1: is always the first threat is usually financial.
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  Speaker 3: Right it is. And there's a ton of legal dictum
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  Speaker 3: on this particular issue of how much can you know
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  Speaker 3: the federal government influence or coerce cities based on some
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  Speaker 3: alternate policy that has nothing to do with that right
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  Speaker 3: and so, But they've taken a pretty extreme line on
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  Speaker 3: how they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So you now, this wasn't a case of I mean,
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  Speaker 1: have you had a meeting with Christino and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what are you trying to truly accomplish here that's in
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  Speaker 1: the interest of public safety. We'd like to help. Have you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been able to have that conversation with the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of d J.
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  Speaker 3: I have not had that conversation because the way they're
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  Speaker 3: framing this up, sadly, is not about safety. I don't
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  Speaker 3: even think it's about immigration. I think this is political retribution.
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  Speaker 1: I think you feel like it's all about George Floyd.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know George Floyd. I think it's about Tim Walls.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's you know, the Vice presidential candidate ran against
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, and I think there's a I think perhaps
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is unhappy that for three elections in a row,
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota did not support his candidacy. I believe that he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to make a point here.
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  Speaker 1: And well, when you look at the data, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like it's not as if Minneapolis stands out compared to Chicago, Denver,
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  Speaker 1: New York. We could go through the cities here. So
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  Speaker 1: it does feel as if you're you, I think you
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  Speaker 1: have said this that you feel as if you're a
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  Speaker 1: petri dish political petritish right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it feels a little bit as if there
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  Speaker 3: were multiple things that were occurring in rapid succession that
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  Speaker 3: don't necessarily have anything to do with one another, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean. It almost feels like you remember
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  Speaker 3: like post nine to eleven. I remember, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: reporting on that, you know, at nine to eleven, and
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  Speaker 3: then you had going after the Taliban. Then it was
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  Speaker 3: looking at Afghanistan. Suddenly we're in Iraq again, and so
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  Speaker 3: it was these things that, like if you weren't paying
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  Speaker 3: a lot of attention, were seemingly linked, but they weren't
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  Speaker 3: at all, And so we had an issue in our
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  Speaker 3: state around fraud, and look, it's real, it is a
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  Speaker 3: real issue. And then there were these racist attacks on
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  Speaker 3: entire communities, most notably are Somali community, based on that fraud.
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  Speaker 3: And then from there it was let's I believe and
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  Speaker 3: this is not based on personal information. I speculate that
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  Speaker 3: somebody from relatively high up in the Trump administration said,
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  Speaker 3: go to Minneapolis, go to Port a bunch of Somalis,
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  Speaker 3: and whoever gave that directive didn't get the necessary pushback,
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  Speaker 3: and then suddenly you got a bunch of ICE agents.
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  Speaker 3: There are in many apple Is trying to deport Somalis,
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  Speaker 3: only to find out they're from here. They're American citizens,
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  Speaker 3: they got here on a plane, they're here legally.
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  Speaker 1: When we're the first Somalian settled settlements, it was in
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  Speaker 1: the mid to late nineties.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, I would say, men, we were.
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  Speaker 1: Accepting refugees from a war torn country. This was a country.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what America has done for decades. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: that's refugees from a war torn country. Yeah, they've been
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  Speaker 1: here longer than I've been here. They're very Minneapolis and
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  Speaker 1: at this point, you know, multiple generations they have been.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's it's it's not like there's a location
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  Speaker 3: where you can go to get a bunch of undocumented Somalis.
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  Speaker 3: Those locations don't exist because again, for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: they're citizens.
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  Speaker 1: So basically you have this fraud issue that really has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with undocumented.
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  Speaker 3: Immigrants, right, right, it's it's a completely separate issue.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I mean the irony is whatever fraud
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  Speaker 1: was committed was likely committed by American citizens.
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  Speaker 3: Correct A likely? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I don't breakdown,
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  Speaker 3: but yes, you know, and when somebody commits fraud, you investigate,
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  Speaker 3: you prosecute, you charge, you get a conviction, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you put the person in jail as an individual. You
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  Speaker 3: don't hold an entire community accountable. You hold the person
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  Speaker 3: accountable as an individual. It's just a very basic American value,
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  Speaker 3: in law enforcement value, and it's shocking and concerning that
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  Speaker 3: we're getting so far straight from that.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'm old enough to remember when part of the
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  Speaker 1: anti woke mindset was to not was to not try
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  Speaker 1: to attack an entire group of people for one person, right,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the complaints. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that was coming from the right. But day here
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  Speaker 1: we are. Let me ask you about dealing with the
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  Speaker 1: safety of your community. Nine to one one response times
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  Speaker 1: have gotten worse in the last few months. Do you
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  Speaker 1: believe that's directly the result of the chaos that you
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  Speaker 1: believe is creating in your city.
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  Speaker 3: I'm certain that's part of it. With anything law enforcement related,
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  Speaker 3: there's always more than one causal factor. But look, we
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  Speaker 3: got six hundred cops in the city. We have fewer
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  Speaker 3: officers per capita than virtually any major city in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Are you short of cops? I mean and an ideal world,
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  Speaker 1: do you wish you had more? Yes? Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've yet to meet a mayor that is not frustrated
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  Speaker 1: by this. I'm pretty friendly with maryel Bowser, mayor of DC,
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  Speaker 1: and she's literally, I swear almost wearing a sign, you know,
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  Speaker 1: call please apply.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I wear the same sign, and I would argue,
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  Speaker 3: I would argue we need them even more. Just on
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  Speaker 3: a per capita basis, we are very low. We hemorrhaged
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  Speaker 3: officers following twenty and we are at the point where
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  Speaker 3: we're netting positive. More and more officers are coming on,
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  Speaker 3: but we don't have enough. Now, juxtapose that six hundred
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  Speaker 3: number versus the three or four thousand or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: ICE agents and border control is a massive imbalance here,
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  Speaker 3: and our police officers have got to do the day
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  Speaker 3: to day work of being a cop. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: on top of that, we've got all of these calls
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  Speaker 3: coming in, all of these you know, ICE instigated events
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  Speaker 3: that are taking place that requires some form of our
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  Speaker 3: police officers to do even more work on top.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened? So if somebody calls in and says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm being harassed, I'm a I'm a Minneapolis resident, I'm
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  Speaker 1: an American citizen, and I feel as if I'm being
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  Speaker 1: harassed by these ICE agents. What are your what's your
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  Speaker 1: police force supposed to do? Well?
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  Speaker 3: It all depends on the nature of the call. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: we respond to calls regarding kidnappings, and so if somebody
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  Speaker 3: says my son is getting kidnapped, we go. If if
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  Speaker 3: there is a protest taking place in an ambulance needs
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  Speaker 3: to get in to help somebody, we escort the ambulance in.
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  Speaker 3: If property damages take place, we deal with the property damage.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, we intervene if there is some form of
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  Speaker 3: misconduct or unlawful behavior that is part of our officer's jobs.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously this gets very difficult when you're also trying
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  Speaker 3: to determine whether the conduct that is taking place is
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  Speaker 3: within the roles and responsibilities provided delegated to ICE other agencies,
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  Speaker 3: or if it's outside that scope of a criminal nature.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very tenuous and difficult place for officers
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 1: And let me guess most of your police officers don't
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  Speaker 1: travel with legal counsel.
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  Speaker 3: Now, do they believe it or not? They don't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I just so what is I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I get that each circumstance is unique, but you know what,
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  Speaker 1: what advice are your police officers getting and dealing with
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  Speaker 1: these situations.
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  Speaker 3: Their their goal is to keep the peace, their goal
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  Speaker 3: to keep pizza.
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  Speaker 1: De escalate whatever it is. They're just trying to de escalate.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, they try to de escalate the situation. They try
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  Speaker 3: to keep the peace. They do not and will not
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  Speaker 3: cooperate with ICE or any federal agency on immigration enforcement work.
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  Speaker 3: That's not our job, that's not what we do. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to keep people from getting hurt or injured.
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  Speaker 3: And the way that ICE is conducting this, I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you it's I've never seen anything like this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is designed to provoke a response?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, perhaps, I don't. I mean, look, I don't. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not in the mind of either of these federal agents
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  Speaker 3: nor this administration. I think a lot of what is
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  Speaker 3: happening is designed to create some form of response. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have that many undocumented immigrants here. What they're
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  Speaker 3: doing is not based on safety. We have partnered with
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  Speaker 3: them based on safety. This seems to me like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they are trying to whip people up into a frenzy.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, thankfully and for the vast majority of
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  Speaker 3: people in our city and the tens of thousands of protesters,
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  Speaker 3: they're not taking the bait. They're not countering Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: chaos with our own brand of chaos here.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that seems like what they're looking to do. And
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  Speaker 3: they've got fifteen hundred militarized troops that are presently on standby.
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• 20:29
  Speaker 1: have to sort of at least limit ICE's uh ability
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to roam the city. I mean this sort of five
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to one ratio right being outnumbered by Ice and Border
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: patrol versus your local police. That seems excessive. Is there
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a court Is there a legal avenue a court order
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you could get that says you know, this is this
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is outside the bounds of what's necessary, This is an
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: excessive et cetera. Is there is there any lea avenue here?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: There is a legal avenue. I am hopeful that we
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: will succeed in the litigation that is presently underway. We
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: have a judge. I think we're working towards a hearing.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Dat I was hoping that it was going to be
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: this Friday, and I'm optimistic.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And what do you want that judge to do? What's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the specific ask?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: This specific? I mean, there are several asks within the
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: complaint itself, but the basic one is to stop the operation,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: appear and simple, yes, to stop the operation that is
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: presently taking place, which is the huge influx of federal agents.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, you know ICE has existed now for decades.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Immigration enforcement exists. We're not talking about like just ICE
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: doing ICE stuff. We're talking about constitutional violations which have
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: gone way beyond anything I could imagine it. This is
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: targeting of Somalia and Latino people.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: This is.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is actually happening. Do you look Somali?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Do you look Latino dragging people off the street, give
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: me your passport or else we're detaining you. That is
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: actually happening, you know, mister May, this is the hardest
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: thing to convey. I think these days, especially in the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: world of deep fakes, nothing you believe, nothing online feels
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: like it's on the up and up. Obviously we live,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: we've been sort of poisoned by these algorithms and all
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: of that.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I find this to be the hardest thing to convey
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to people who are not seeing it firsthand, and I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: imagine you feel this frustration as well. There was a
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Park police chief when viral yesterday with some comments
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: he made about what has happened to off duty officers
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: who just don't happen to look like you and me?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: What kind of experiences have you heard on that front?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And if you talk to any of these off duty cops,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: have they shared their experiences with ice of you?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've heard countless instances very similar, almost identical to
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: what you heard from that. I believe it was Brooklyn Park, Yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: police chief.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: For those of you that are in Brooklyn Park, I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: believe that's where Jesse Ventura was mayor if I'm not mistaken.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Back in the day, I often get to who if
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: it's from Brooklyn Park or Brooklyn Center, which are right
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: next to E.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But I do think you were one of them. Was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: where Jesse Ventur got to start, right? Yeah? For those
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: outside of Minnesota keeping score at home, anyway, go ahead, Sorry,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I am all. I am, after all a political Juggie
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: pot page.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I am impressed. Yes, No, Minnesota has gone a long
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: a long history of of interesting and fascinating and politicians.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite states, you know, because of that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I love the characters and the personalities and what I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: use what Hubert Humphrey once called the politics of joy
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that was Minnesota.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: In Minneapolis actually not a lot of joy these days.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, this is the kind of dynamic
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that we're hearing about constantly. And apart from, of course,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the unlawfully detaining people of the United States citizens, apart
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: from the gimme your passport and your identification based on
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: nothing more than being a part being a person of color.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen we've seen our own city employees
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: in city uniforms, by the way, in city vests. You know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: There'll be four public works employees out there filling potholes,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and the three that are brown or black get id
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and the one guy that's white. Doesn't mean you can't
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: do that. Uh, they're filling potholes. This ain't America. The
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: other thing that we're seeing is just just really dumb,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: just dumb anti safety conduct taking place.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: You get they were better trained, this might be going better.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, better trained, a better direction, better moral authority,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: some some form of moral compass, you know, the over
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: on Third Avenue, which is the street that we are
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: right off right now. It's a pretty significant street. They detained,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: They ice detained. Somebody yanked them out of the car,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: kept the car in drive. There's nobody in the car.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Car is just rolling down the street with nobody in it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, that could have hit my parents, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: that could have injured somebody. We've got other instances where
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: they detained the person and then suddenly you got a
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: stray dog and the dog is just roaming around the city.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It's cold out right now. We got a call in,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: you know, the other day from a five year old
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: kid who was speaking Spanish saying, I don't know where
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: my parents are. They haven't come home. I mean, this
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: is the kind of heartbreaking stuff that we're hearing about
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: right now. And again, it's not about catching criminals. I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: just sick of this narrative. I'll take the most the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: simplest position that I have maybe ever taken as mayor,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: which is in Minneapolis. Were anti murder in Minneapolis, were
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: anti rape. If you want to catch a murder or rapist,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: we're on board, let's do it. That's not what this
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: is about, though.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: How concerned. Are you that residents are going to take
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: matters into their own hands.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, of course that is a concern, But for
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: the most part, I mean I'm inspired. I have been
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: watching people go source their local food bank and get
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: people groceries and escorting people on their walk or their
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: drive to work. I mean, you have tens of thousands
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of people showing the world exactly who Minneapolis is and
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: what we say stand for and our core convictions and values,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: and by the way, people from different ideological perspectives as well,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: all saying, you know what, I love our neighbor, we
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: stand by them, we support our local business or local restaurants.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's something that is truly magnificent. I've never
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: been more proud to be from Minneapolis.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to the decision not to
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: let Ice use city property. I understand the symbolic nature
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of that. It hasn't deterred Ice from arguably causing even
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: more chaos by getting using private property, being disruptive using
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: federal property. Is that policy workable?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I think it's a fair question to ask. I mean,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: we want to make it clear that we will not
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: cooperate with them and allow them to do this really
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: unconstitutional conduct with our resources and that includes our parking lots. Look,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: is it like some big monumental measure. No, No, I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: certainly not arguing that. But it was a tool that
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: we had and it's a tool that we're going to use.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Do you need more resources from the state?
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, always we're always asking for re.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Sure on this particular issue. I mean, i mean, look,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: this seems like a far fetch question. But and I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, I've I've not wanted to go
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: down this road because of the of the implications of it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: But if you thought about asking the governor to call
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: up the National Guard to help deal with ice in
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: your community.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: We have talked with the governor about calling up the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: National Guard and what that would look like and where
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: they would where and how they would be utilized. Importantly,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: the governor has the authority over the National Guard, not
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: the president.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: The governor.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Governor has the authority of when, where, how and if
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: to implement the National Guards.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: He has authority over the National Guard within the state
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of Minnesota. Correct, Yes, right, I mean there is a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: like he couldn't tell this that a sort of national
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: guard go into Wisconsin.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Correct, that should have been that distinction.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, no, well I just I was just
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: doing the sort of for the list everybody.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he has called them up to have them
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: on standby on the number of occasions already. And that's
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: a very important move one because we've got the additional
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: resources if in fact we need them. We haven't. But
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: what it also does is show Governor Wallas has got it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: You know, he's he's on And I think that's a
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: very important point.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: What do you have an understanding what what the subpoena
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: was about that you received? I know it wasn't you personally,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it was I guess the was it the City of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Minneapolis or the office of the mayor.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: That got the office of the mayor?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And what were the record? What was subpoena?
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, all sorts of stuff. I think generally these
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: subpoena processes, especially through grand juria, or supposed to be secret,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: but they're clearly trying to make a big public fiasco
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: out of it. I don't have the thing in front
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: of me. I mean what I'll say is it should
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: be deeply concerning to everyone that the Department of Justice
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: is being weaponized to go after political leaders that disagree
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: with the president. I mean, the thing in essence that
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I would be getting targeted for is doing one of
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: my most core and critical jobs that I have as mayor,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and that's to speak on behalf of my constituents. It's frivolous.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I almost don't like saying that because it's so obvious.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And then this kind of this is problematic for everybody.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: We should all be very well.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Look, I've often said a bit in jest that if
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the FBI came knocking on my door and showed up
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: up with some sort of charge, I wouldn't believe him.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I'd tell them, I don't think you're the FBI. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: don't believe you. I mean, I say they are, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: being a little like I said, it's a tad bit
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: tongue in cheap, but you know, the level of credibility
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that the federal law enforcement agencies have with a large
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: share of the public is quite low right now. I mean,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: do you trust the current Department of Justice?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: No? No, I mean, and that's a crazy it's not
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: a crazy thing to say right now, but it should be.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: It should be my mentality, my mentality throughout My life
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: has been of a whole lot of faith and trust
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: in not just the federal government, but specifically the Department
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: of Justice, of these kind of legal supposedly quasi independent
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: entities that are able to enforce and carry out the law.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I mean. And part of that faith stems from the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: fact that you've got these long term bureaucrats. Bureaucrats often
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: have a negative connotation to them, but they are these
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: people that span beyond administration. They were there for Bush
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: and Clinton, they were there for Obama.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: The careers, know, I wish we wouldn't call them bureaucrats,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: say their careers, which frankly, you know, was something that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was actually a civil service reform that goes back if
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you I think people got a mini education on it,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: if they binged to death by lightning on Netflix recently.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: It was sort of the hallmark of the Garfield, Chester
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Arthur presidencies. Was this to create this nonpartisan government worker protection.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: And there's so much value to that one because you've
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: got this institutional knowledge and memory that spans between administrations
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: into the conviction and the loyalty is not to some guy,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: it's to America. And you talk to so many of
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: these people and they're like, they're very much sure they vote,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: but they are very much postpartisan, I mean, and they
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: believe in command and control and the order that they bring.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: And they also very much believe in the Constitution, and
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: that so many of these career would you call them careerists,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: these professionals, that so many of them have said, that's it,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: We've had enough work out, we can't do this anymore. Both,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: I give them a lot of credit for, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: leaving their job because they're not going to do this
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: horrible thing. And at the same time, it's really problematic
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: because what does that leave you with. It leaves you
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: with I don't know, a loyalists who are just going
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: to do whatever the president tells you to. Let me.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I know you're busy. I want to get you out
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of here in this which is given the experience now
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: you're feeling of this weaponized federal government, right. I look,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: it looks like you've been to targeted. This looks like
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: it's an attempt to spark A response was a this
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: was a specific let's go here, there's a blue city
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: activist we can that won't be popular with centrist you know,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you can see the sort of political design in the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: heads of these folks. Do you think people didn't stand
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: up to Trump enough? Has there been too much appeasement?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Do you think do you have any advice or told
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: you sos to eddy Democratic leaders when it comes to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Trump that you'd like to express, or do you feel
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: as if that, Hey, guess what, you know? Failure of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: imagination is basically the only sin people have committed when
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: it comes to Donald Trump.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Failure of imagination, perhaps failure of believing that he's going
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: to do the things that he says he's going to do.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Well, We're used to politicians not doing that, right, so
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: we just assume he's full of it. And the thing is,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: he is full of it until he's not full of it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, some of these horrific things he has told
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: people that he was going to do them, and you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I could probably count myself in with those that should
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: have believed that he was going to do some of
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: this crazy stuff, because at least initially back in twenty sixteen,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I kind of shoved it off, like, oh, come on,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. But now we're in a second term here,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: and he's carrying some of it out and it's terrifying
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: and it's reached a whole new level than anything that
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: we saw in that first term.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Well, do you think there's any end in sight to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: this or is it going to your last Is the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: court the sort of the last place you can go.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Well, we are accessing every single channel that we have. Yes,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: we are litigating preemptively. We are litigating in response to
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: what's taking place. I am very optimistic that we're going
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: to win. And at the same time, we are also
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: accessing other channels in the federal government in the White
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: House to try to get this to change, you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: pushing out to business leaders and CEOs to have them
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: utilize their connections.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Or it has been bad politics for the Republicans. This
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: has not been good for them. Just if you just
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: look at it, it's been bad politics, so one would
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: assume that they would change. By the way, are you
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: going to be able to do a real investigation on
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: whether renee Good was murdered?
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: We need to do a real investigation. The investigations should
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: run through the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: state based agency that has done these investigations on use
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: of force repeatedly. They've run investigations that have come to
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: both charging decisions and a lack of charge. This is
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: not some radical organization. This is largely you know, lawyers
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: and police officers that are part of this group, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: that's where it needs to go.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Has there been an investigation opened and they just can't
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: get cooperation or you're waiting to see if you get
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: cooperation before you can open an investigation.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: There, well, the federal government has My understanding is that
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: they have blocked out the b c A from getting
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: critical and important evidence that we have allowed them to
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: run this investigation side by side with the FBI, sure
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: and the side.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It would have been a normal way to do business
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: back in the normal way.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Very normal way. I mean it has it has done
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: that before. That's the way we have operated for uh.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: But but and you know, barring that, yeah, I would
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: like to be see it to do the investigation themselves,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: and of course there will be support.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: How much of your job is dominated by this current crisis, I.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Mean much of it obviously, But we're you know, we're
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: going to keep providing important constituent services. We do the
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: work of the city. You know, city governments were the
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: ones that don't shut down so we keep rolling. We're
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: not quitting. We're not going to get intimidated by what's
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: going on.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Mister Mayor. I appreciate the time. Like I said, I
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: know you're busy, so when or one hour podcast is
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a lot to ask. So I appreciate you giving me
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: thirty unor to be here with you watching a lot
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: as a kid, so I've watched me for a long time. Well,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you making me feel little. That's awesome. Yeah, thanks,
• 38:11
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• 38:22
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• 38:24
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• 38:27
  Speaker 1: My mother single mother, now widow. Myself sixteen trying to
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