Protests in Minneapolis | “Hundreds” of additional federal police officers will be deployed

(Minneapolis) US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Sunday the dispatch of “hundreds” of additional federal agents between Sunday and Monday in Minneapolis, after the death of a 37-year-old resident during an immigration police operation.

“We will continue to enforce the law: if individuals commit acts of violence against law enforcement or obstruct our operations, it is a crime, and we will hold them responsible for the consequences,” she warned during the program Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News.

Earlier on CNN, the secretary had accused the Democrats of “encouraging” “violence” against the federal immigration police (ICE), the armed wing of the administration’s offensive against illegal immigration, made a national priority.

At a time when rallies are being organized across the country to deplore the tragedy that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good, the secretary also reiterated the official thesis of self-defense, evoking an act of “domestic terrorism”.

While several elected Democrats, first and foremost Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, dispute this explanation, with supporting videos, Kristi Noem accuses them of having “excessively politicized the situation”, speaking “inappropriately” about what is happening on the ground.

“They stirred up public opinion. They encouraged the type of destruction and violence that we have seen in Minneapolis in recent days,” she said.

Since the events on Wednesday, thousands of people have demonstrated in several cities across the country, most of the time peacefully, to demand in particular that all light be shed on the circumstances of this fatal shooting.

Democratic elected officials particularly deplore that local investigators were excluded from the investigations, carried out by the FBI.

The investigation must be “neutral, impartial, based on the establishment of facts”, repeated Sunday Jacob Frey, also interviewed on CNN.

He also considered legitimate the militant actions organized to try to hinder the operations of the immigration police – of the type in which the victim participated.

“Of course, we have to enforce the laws, obviously. But there is also the obligation to apply them and to carry out law enforcement operations in a manner consistent with the Constitution,” he said, referring to “pregnant women dragged in the street” or “high school students” arrested without reason.