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Jacob Frey: “Donald Trump was threatening to invoke the Insurrection act…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 31:08

At the time, there were three to 4,000 ICE agents and Border Patrol on our street, compared with 600 police officers. There were 1800 additional troops that were stationed in Alaska. And Donald Trump was threatening to invoke the Insurrection act and deploy them. He was looking for any excuse to legitimately bring that military presence to our city. And if our police officers got into a physical confrontation, or worse, a firefight with them. (31:08–31:14)

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Asserts that Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.

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