FOR EVERYBODY SAYING THAT THE POLICE WILL SIDE WITH ICE – READ THIS!
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“Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said on Sunday that “people have had enough” after this weekend’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man by federal agents.
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The Department of Homeland Security said agents were acting in self-defense while trying to disarm Pretti, while local officials have pushed back on the account.
O’Hara said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that it’s “deeply concerning the things that are being said.”
“This is an individual that was a city resident. It appears that he was present exercising his First Amendment rights to record law enforcement activity and also exercising his Second Amendment rights to lawfully be armed in a public space in the city,” O’Hara said. “So I think very obviously, there are serious questions that are being raised.”
O’Hara added that “the greater issue is, even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.”
“This is the third shooting now in less than three weeks. The Minneapolis Police Department went the entire year last year, recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds and hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn’t shoot anyone. And now this is the second American citizen that’s been killed, it’s the third shooting within three weeks,” O’Hara said.
O’Hara added, “People have been speaking out, saying that this was going to happen again, and I think everyone is kind of waiting for folks on both sides to come together and just figure this thing out.”
“This is not sustainable,” he said. “This police department has only 600 police officers. We are stretched incredibly thin. This is taking an enormous toll trying to manage all of this chaos on top of having to be the police department for a major city. It’s too much.”
Asked whether he is calling on ICE to leave Minneapolis, O’Hara said the problem isn’t that “enforcement is happening, it’s clearly the manner in which these things are happening.”
“These tactics are very obviously not safe, and it is generating a lot of outrage and fear in the community,” O’Hara said.”
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-police-chief-says-people-have-had-enough-after-fatal-shooting-by-federal-agents/
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