(New York) US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Sunday accused Democrats of “encouraging” “violence” against immigration police on CNN, after the death of a woman killed during an operation in Minneapolis.
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At a time when rallies are being organized across the country to deplore the tragedy that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good, 37, 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 have encouraged the type of destruction and violence we have seen in Minneapolis in recent days.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security
Since the events on Wednesday, thousands of people have demonstrated peacefully in several cities across the country, demanding 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.
