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Jacob Frey: “Thousands of federal agents have descended on a city that…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:42

For those of you that have been watching the news on what's happened in Minneapolis, I'll tell you, it is that bad. People's constitutional rights have been trampled. 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. (03:42–03:49)

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