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Jacob Frey: “There are far too many mayors that know what it's like to…”

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

Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours)

Published September 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:55

And yes, the initial intention was to have this interview go in a dramatically different direction, but I think you're exactly right. This is relevant, it is present. And to answer your question, There are far too many mayors that know what it's like to experience a mass school or church shooting. The fact that there have been countless mayors texting me over the last several days that have they themselves experienced a mass shooting is in and of itself horrific. (01:55–02:04)

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“We know that 67% of the American public supports a ban on assault rifles.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 24:16-24:24
“We know that about 50% of the Republicans support a ban on assault rifle.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 24:24-24:31
“We were the first city in the country to really push back on that, to get rid of exclusionary zoning practices, to get rid of single family…”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 46:13-46:23
“North side has had fewer shootings than any time on record. Now, to be clear, that means we have had fewer shootings at any time since about…”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 47:53-48:05
“The fact that this has happened in one city, we don't do anything about it, and then it happens in another city is negligence.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 02:22-02:34
“Some [white leftists] will say that [defunding the police] would be the right thing to do for communities of color.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 03:28-49:46
“If things are working well, in an emergency, there is an incident command.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 06:44-06:50
“We have done a ton of work over the last five years in the way of emergency management.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 07:34-07:39
“We took about 70 plus people from the city [to Emmitsburg, Maryland]...to prepare [for emergencies].”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 08:13-08:21
“We had police officers there within four minutes of the 911 call.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 08:57-09:04
“It wouldn't have been two, it would have been eight, potentially 10 kids dead.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 09:38-09:45
“The good news is that that was happening relatively seamlessly without my involvement.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 11:32-11:38
“The mayor is the executive of the city.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 11:53-11:55
“We were getting officers from a number of other jurisdictions, from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in other cities.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 12:34-12:41
“Kids should be able to go to school and have the assurance that they're going to be safe.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 16:05-16:12
“That safety hasn't been assured to all parents and afforded to all schools is horrific.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 16:47-16:55
“Virtually every religion out there has some sort of phrase or saying where they say that prayer is a necessity, but it is not in and of…”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 18:53-19:04
“We know what the solutions are because they've been the same solutions. Three years ago, five years ago, 25 years ago.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 19:36-19:43
“There are other countries like Australia, where something bad has happened and they say, you know what, that's enough.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 20:35-20:41
“The only difference is we have not had the courage or the political will to get it done here.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 20:42-20:49
“You called for legislation at the state level.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 21:11-21:16
“We want a statewide and a national ban on assault weapons.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 21:31-21:36
“We want a statewide and a national ban on high capacity magazines.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 21:36-21:42
“There is no reason why we should have in our society and in our city these assault weapons that are built to pierce armor, pierce flesh, and…”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 22:12-22:27
“Almost 70% [of Americans] believe in assault rifle bans.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 24:16-24:24
“It's 67% [of Americans who support assault rifle bans].”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 24:16-24:24
“There is a law that preempts cities from acting in the area of gun reform.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 25:25-25:31
“There are other states that allow four cities to act in the area of gun reform.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 25:31-25:36
“We need additional mental health support.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 28:57-28:59
“Both sides can be right about this [mental health and guns] at the same time.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 29:11-29:11
“There are sound arguments to changing the way that the country functions and even changing the way that the Constitution exists.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 30:26-30:36
“Part of that [lack of democratic action] is how districts are drawn.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 33:03-33:07
“Part of that [lack of democratic action] is how money is handed out.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 33:03-33:10
“You've got entire classes of politicians that rely on NRA support to get elected.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 33:10-33:19
“The system is messed up. Look at how some of these districts are drawn.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 34:14-34:19
“There are so few purple districts that even exist anymore in the country.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 34:18-34:22
“What we have in the city, which this would be a structural change, is ranked choice voting.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 35:56-36:02
“We don't have a primary. We go straight to the general election.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 36:02-36:06
“I'm a big proponent of ranked choice voting for this very reason.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 36:33-36:37
“Lives were saved because of that work.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 39:00-39:04
“There's no term limits.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 39:15-39:17
“I'm doing one final term to get the job done, to hand the reins off to the next mayor with a city that is in fine form.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 39:21-39:30
“The government structure has been shifted so that they can run a city efficiently, effectively, compassionately for the people of…”
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“We have felt a lot more unity over these last week.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 39:47-39:53
“Minneapolis is not unique in that respect. That's virtually every city throughout the country that did the exact same thing.”
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“That is not what our black community or our Latino community is by and large saying.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 49:49-49:55
“They want the cops to be better. They want reforms to take place, but they also want the ability to call 911 and have an officer show up in…”
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“The fact that our gaps racially are so pronounced, is indicative of something that is much deeper than this overt racism.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 52:18-52:30
“It's a product of these intentional decisions that have been made over 100 years.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 52:44-52:49
“Right now we've got to make sure that the precision of our solutions match the precision of the harm that was initially inflicted.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 52:48-52:55
“I'm running for my third term.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 57:13-57:15
“I believe that this will probably be the last elected position that I ever hold.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 57:17-57:21
“Not every city throughout the country has neighborhood associations like we do.”
Mayor Jacob Frey on the Minneapolis Mass Shooting (One Hour Detours) | Uploaded September 3, 2025 | 59:00-59:05
“I've had a number of conversations with President Biden.”
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