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Minnesota cops beg Walz, pols to let them work with ICE, say they could have prevented shootings
New York Post ^ | January 28, 2026 | Reuven Fenton and Anthony Blair

Posted on 01/29/2026 8:21:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix

MINNEAPOLIS — The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents – saying if they had been involved, “there would be no loss of life.”

It comes as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz agreed to have his top cop work with President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan after he rushed to Minneapolis Monday — after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was sidelined.

St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross blamed state and local officials for the anti-ICE protest violence — saying that if highly trained cops were allowed to work with the feds, it likely would have prevented the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: aliens; ice; minneapolis; minnesota; police; riots; timwalz

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The local MN cops are definitely NOT siding with Walz.
1 posted on 01/29/2026 8:21:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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If we had a remotely fair press, the story out of Minnesota would be that if the Democrat administration would have cooperated with ICE to let ICE take criminals from jails, none of the riots and deaths would have happened. And that Walz and other Dem officials are 100% responsible for the violence because they have done everything they can to prevent cooperation between local and federal law enforcement.


2 posted on 01/29/2026 8:26:45 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Of course they could have prevented BOTH deaths by securing the perimeters of ICE operations.

These dirty SOBs in Minnesota allowed all that to happen in an effort to intentionally escalate this situation, all motivated to create a diversion from the hundreds of billions in stolen tax dollars.


3 posted on 01/29/2026 8:26:47 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Democrats WANT there to be shootings, violence because it gives them something to exploit. All they care about is power


4 posted on 01/29/2026 8:30:32 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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..after he rushed ...

You can't hate the media enough.

5 posted on 01/29/2026 8:31:23 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump PPP on)
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The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents


another voice in the wilderness. It will echo........................


6 posted on 01/29/2026 8:32:20 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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“saying if they had been involved, “there would be no loss of life.””

That’s exactly why Tampon Tim did not want them involved. They wanted and needed victims.


7 posted on 01/29/2026 8:33:04 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Ping


8 posted on 01/29/2026 8:34:33 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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Minnesota cops beg Walz ... say they could have prevented shootings ...

They assume Walz wants to prevent shootings?
The shootings are better propaganda than anything the cops are proposing.

9 posted on 01/29/2026 8:35:45 AM PST by Salman
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ALL this is because Joe Brandon Biden let all the scum into our country in the first place.

And MOST of the violence is because Commie Frey and Idiot Walz prevented the STATE of MN from cooperating with the federal authorities which is not optional due to the primacy of the FEDERAL government in immigration matters.


10 posted on 01/29/2026 9:06:07 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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Cops will be cops and commies will be commies.

I believe that the vast, vast majority of law enforcement officers, including local police, county sheriffs/deputies, state troopers, etc., are unbelievably special people.

Consider that on a daily basis, their jobs require them to be ready for virtually anything event. For example, imagine having respond to traffic collision where the body of a victim, which on occasion is an infant, is mangled beyond recognition and when the scene is cleared, be able to continue their shift and respond to the next call, sometimes within minutes and maintain their composure and professionalism.

They are extraordinary humans that deserve our respect, support and the benefit of the doubt . . .


11 posted on 01/29/2026 9:06:41 AM PST by MCSETots
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The chief of police in Minneapolis is certainly on Walz/Frey’s side. He is totally commie trash.


12 posted on 01/29/2026 9:43:34 AM PST by bobbo666
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“”Gov. Tim Walz agreed to have his top cop work with President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan””

Who is Walz’s top cop? The head of the Twin Cities police union??


13 posted on 01/29/2026 10:37:46 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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What’s telling is that it’s the cops who are asking to be involved, not the smarmy chief.


14 posted on 01/29/2026 11:10:30 AM PST by DPMD (u)
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These cops don’t get it. Deaths are the desired outcome. The movement needs martyrs, and now they have 2.


15 posted on 01/29/2026 11:39:59 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: bobbo666

It must be incredibly frustrating to be tasked with enforcing the law, and then being told to stand down (or crack down) by politicians advancing their political agenda.


16 posted on 01/29/2026 11:46:54 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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The democrats are in dire need of a long blame list for the next two elections the Republicans is their number one target.

Minnesota is a shot in the dark for one.


17 posted on 01/29/2026 12:30:27 PM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Too bad law enforcement isn’t what it used to be. Don’t believe me, just review some of the police chief’s across the U.S... And in the big cities it didn’t stop with the chiefs. In many venues, all the way down the senior officer staff with many appearing to be leftist insurgents.


18 posted on 01/29/2026 12:52:07 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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