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Minneapolis Police Chief: Doesn’t Matter if Shooting Legally Justified Because People Are Upset
Breitbart ^ | January 25, 2026 | Bob Price

Posted on 01/25/2026 4:46:38 PM PST by Morgana

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara warned on Face the Nation Sunday that public anger over a string of federal‑involved shootings has reached a breaking point, saying the city is so overwhelmed that even a finding of legal justification in the latest incident “does not matter at this point.”

Host Margaret Brennan asked the Minneapolis police chief his opinion about the facts of Saturday’s shooting of a protester in the city. He explained that he believes the videos speak for themselves. He continued, saying, “So I think very obviously, there are serious questions that are being raised.”

“And I think the greater issue is,” O’Hara continued, “even if there is an investigation that ultimately proves that at the time of the shooting it was legally justified, I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there just- there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.”

Pressed by Brennan on what he meant, O’Hara said Minneapolis residents “have had enough” after three shootings in less than three weeks, including two fatal encounters involving federal agents. He noted that his department recovered roughly 900 guns last year without firing a shot, yet now finds itself managing escalating chaos with only 600 officers. “This is not sustainable,” he said, describing the toll on a force he says is stretched “incredibly thin” as the city waits for leaders “on both sides to come together and figure this thing out.

The chief stated:

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To: shelterguy

You didn’t do what I said.

I said the STATE of Minnesota not the people of Minnesota.

I am fully aware that 47% of MN voters voted for Trump and that eliminating the votes of illegal aliens would have easily put him over the top.

Watch the video.


21 posted on 01/25/2026 5:05:06 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: Morgana
I've never seen a bank robbery of $20 Billion where the perpetrators don't think they may get in trouble when caught. Then, I've never seen the account holders whose money it is that the perpetrators have stolen, line up to act as shields and antagonists to the police that want to catch the bank robbers?

This is like 50,000 Stockholm Syndrome citizens. It's the most weird counterintuitive series of acts I've ever seen. It needs to be studied at length. It's like DARPA and Moderna succeeded wildly at a mass psychosis psychological influence project in Minneapolis. That or there's 50,000 people in Minneapolis trying to avoid repaying their student loans thru activism community service deferrals.

22 posted on 01/25/2026 5:05:57 PM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Morgana

That traitor to law enforcement O’Hara is a close ally of Jacob Frey. Loathsome.

If we go to physical civil war he will be a force against the good guys.

Imagine being a good person, a conservative, a law abiding citizen, in Minneapolis. You would feel abandoned, alone and hopeless as things stand now. Like the honest shopkeepers who went to the police to turn in gangsters trying to get protection money. The cops themselves were on the take, funded by the mob.

O’Hara a cop? He’s a despicable traitor.


23 posted on 01/25/2026 5:07:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: blackdog

The activism is highly organized. To the extreme.


24 posted on 01/25/2026 5:07:17 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: Morgana

People are upsed?
________________

Which people?
How many?
Bunch of paid protesters, many shipped there out of state?


25 posted on 01/25/2026 5:07:21 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: TigersEye

“””Watch the video.”””

I already know how corrupt they are. Everyone here does. President Trump was the first person ever to open the vault and expose it to everyone.


26 posted on 01/25/2026 5:07:27 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

No, you don’t.


27 posted on 01/25/2026 5:08:33 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: TigersEye

Yes, I do. I worked with government entities here for many years.


28 posted on 01/25/2026 5:10:24 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Morgana
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Gee, wonder why?





29 posted on 01/25/2026 5:10:31 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (She hails from the Slave Masters - A family of Sugar Plantation Oligarchs)
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To: Morgana

Remember when some boys were accused of rape years ok which later it was proved they didn’t do it.......... the left came out and said something stupid like “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s the seriousness of the matter”.


30 posted on 01/25/2026 5:12:11 PM PST by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Same logic as when the Saint Floyd riots were allowed to go unchecked.

How come our side can’t even go into the Capitol building when we are mad?


31 posted on 01/25/2026 5:13:35 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Morgana

Then stop protecting criminals, and encouraging criminal behavior.


32 posted on 01/25/2026 5:13:57 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Morgana

“So I think very obviously, there are serious questions that are being raised.”

Yep. WHY are you, and your crooked Mayors, District Attorneys, Judges Governors et al, refusing to cooperate with Federal authorities in the course of their duties, following our Laws, and the agencies?

You are making their job much more difficult and dangerous, and creating the conditions that lead to this chaos. Civilians are not to insert themselves into this process, there is a right to protest but this is not it.

Maybe you need to find another line of work. Your oath is to the Constitution and American citizens, not illegal alienkiddie-fvckers, rapists, gang-bangers and assorted illegal alien criminals that ICE is responding to. You are just beclowning yourself.


33 posted on 01/25/2026 5:16:01 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: blueyon
1) UNC Chapel Hill LaCrosse team players.

2) Bob Packwood.

To name two.....

34 posted on 01/25/2026 5:18:49 PM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: shelterguy

faux outrage will NOT stop Trump from enforcing the law.

don’t like the law? change it. But until then, get out of the way.


35 posted on 01/25/2026 5:24:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Morgana

“People are tired of clearning up crime so we’re going to let them burn the city down.”

Ok, go ahead.


36 posted on 01/25/2026 5:26:04 PM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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“People are tired of cleaning up crime so we’re going to let them burn the city down.”

Ok, go ahead.


37 posted on 01/25/2026 5:26:53 PM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: shelterguy

Disagree. The governor of Minnesota is leading the state’s rebellion against the United States government.


38 posted on 01/25/2026 5:37:26 PM PST by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

“””Disagree. The governor of Minnesota is leading the state’s rebellion against the United States government”””

No doubt. But the mayor is the one who told the police to stand down. Governor can’t do that.


39 posted on 01/25/2026 5:39:35 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Morgana

My sister was upset in April 1970 when it was announced that the Beatles broke up.

If this police chief was PM of England he would have made them stay together. After all, it doesn’t matter if they have the legal right to pursue separate lives - PEOPLE WERE UPSET!


40 posted on 01/25/2026 5:45:22 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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