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


41 posted on 01/25/2026 5:51:06 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: shelterguy

Gee I am upset Denver lost so should they award the game to Denver because I’m upset?


42 posted on 01/25/2026 5:56:29 PM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: shelterguy
"Minnesota is not involved. It is the Occupied Territory of Minneapolistan that is causing the trouble."

It's not often you get so many rats assembled in one location as now.


43 posted on 01/25/2026 6:06:42 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: TigersEye

Why hasn’t the FBI figured this out. Why is someone that does a show know all of this and the FBI doesn’t? Is it just full scale incompetence with the JD and FBI. I don’t get it.


44 posted on 01/25/2026 6:13:26 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: Morgana

LOL!!! YES, IT FING MATTERS! THE ONLY PEOPLE UPSET ARE THE HOARD OF LEFTIST HUMAN DEBRIS!


45 posted on 01/25/2026 6:16:22 PM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: dandiegirl

They may very well have this kind of thing and a lot more. They’re building legal cases not publishing articles or making podcasts.

It’s the biggest scandal in American history IMO so I sure hope they’re doing something. It’s not often you catch the behind scenes communications of an entire state government plotting the overthrow of the United States.


46 posted on 01/25/2026 6:18:13 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: Morgana

Well chef. Tell yourr Minnies to keep their asses inside. Go over to their “neighbors’” houses. Their neighbors should be willing to take them in. They can shovel the snow and scrub their neighbor’s toilets.


47 posted on 01/25/2026 6:21:45 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Minnie Chef looks like he’s a real bad ass. He’s really just another shickenchit.


48 posted on 01/25/2026 6:23:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: TigersEye

I hope so. People are fed up with seemingly inaction.


49 posted on 01/25/2026 6:24:06 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: Morgana

Im not upset about the shooting.

im upset faggots are allowed to mess with ICE


50 posted on 01/25/2026 6:28:26 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Morgana

feelings are 9/10 of the law


51 posted on 01/25/2026 6:29:31 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: matt04

18 U.S. Code § 3 - Accessory after the fact
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Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.

Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.


52 posted on 01/25/2026 6:31:10 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: dandiegirl

I guess we’ll find out. If the left overthrows the country we will know that the FBI wasn’t on our side after all.


53 posted on 01/25/2026 6:38:13 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: Morgana
This is SO screwed up without redress and recourse, especially with the idiocy and corruption at the highest levels of the executive and judicial branches, it exceeds insurrection and necessitates martial law.

Declare martial law, roll in conduct court martials and, if guilty, conduct executions. This is FAR beyond anything acceptable.

54 posted on 01/25/2026 6:40:23 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Morgana

55 posted on 01/25/2026 6:55:46 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Morgana

Feelings and mob rule are stronger than the rule of law?


56 posted on 01/25/2026 7:13:31 PM PST by rfp1234 (E porcibus unum)
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To: dandiegirl
Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby 🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED

FWIW Matt Morse is only reporting this, and I think he does a great job of that, but the source is Cam Higby, and independent journalist, whom you can find at the link above. He is the one who went undercover and got it all.

At the link there are many posts of his below the one at the top.

57 posted on 01/25/2026 7:18:15 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat/leftist strategy is "maximum chaos until collapse is acheived.")
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To: Morgana

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara: I’m here to ensure the letter of the Heckler’s Veto is followed.


58 posted on 01/25/2026 7:20:45 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Morgana
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara believes that the truth doesn't matter. Welcome Minneapole to 1984. Big Brother will be watching you.
59 posted on 01/25/2026 9:58:08 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Morgana

Previously from Brian O’Hara:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4355758/posts

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says that Somalians should call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to make arrests
Twitter/X ^ | December 2, 2025
Posted on 12/3/2025, 10:42:10 AM by lowbridge

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says that Somalians should call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to make arrests.

He says police will “immediately respond” and “intervene.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4359916/posts

Unhinged Minneapolis Police Chief Apologizes to Somalis After They Were Caught in Multi-Billion Dollar Health Care and Child Care Scam (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | New Years Day 2026 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 1/1/2026, 2:53:37 PM by Morgana

This may explain why the Somali population in Minnesota believe they can steal several billion from taxpayers for fake childcare and adult care assistance.

A month ago, Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara apologized to the Somali community after the billion dollar fraud was discovered.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara: The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me and I appreciate it. Over the last three years we have been working together to try and address some of the real serious problems that we have in our community. We have to be honest at times with the problems that we’re having in our community and we need our community to help us fix those problems together because it’s real and it’s serious. At the same time, if people have taken anything that I have said out of context in a way that’s caused harm, I apologize and I’m sorry for that because that’s not my intention at all.

Video via Spitfire.

Later in December, Police Chief O’Hara invoked the Nativity story to attack the Trump Administration’s immigration raids.

O’Hara used his leftist background to defend the illegal aliens.

Chief O’Hara:

“It’s especially personal to me, having been raised a Catholic, to be in a Christian church this morning as we are approaching Christmas,” O’Hara said. “And, I cannot help but think of what is happening in our city today, and how that echoes with how outsiders have been treated for thousands of years. How Mary and Joseph themselves were considered outsiders and forced to stay in a barn.”


60 posted on 01/25/2026 10:11:10 PM PST by Fedora
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