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Jacob Frey: “I was about to sign the very first emergency declaration to…”

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

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Jovonta Patton Podcast with Mayor Jacob Frey (Special Episode)

Published | Video Starts at 04:56

And I remember there was a moment in it must have been like, very beginning of March of 2020. And I was sitting at a table, and in one hand, I had a pen, and I was about to sign the very first emergency declaration to literally shut the city down because of COVID 19. And in the other hand, I had a cell phone. I was FaceTiming with my wife, who was in the hospital as she was doing the ultrasound, looking at Frida before she was Frida. (04:56–05:04)

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Asserts that he signed the first emergency declaration to shut down the city due to COVID-19.

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