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Jacob Frey: “Discrimination takes place only on the basis of, are you…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 04:04

Thousands of federal agents have descended on a city that has 600 police officers. 600 police officers, and somewhere between three and 4,000 federal agents, ICE and Border Patrol people have been indiscriminately pulled off the street. Discrimination takes place only on the basis of, are you Somali, are you Latino, or are you Southeast Asian? And then American citizens have been yanked away from their homes after that solely because they look like they are from Mexico or Ecuador or Somalia. That's not how we operate in America. (04:04–04:11)

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Asserts that discrimination is occurring based on ethnicity, specifically targeting Somali, Latino, or Southeast Asian individuals.

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