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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Gov. Tim Walz says he's cautiously optimistic about the Trump administration announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota but is demanding the federal government take accountability for what happened during the surge, including "the incredible and immense costs."

VIDEOAny liberals who discount the charge that Minnesota elected officials, especially Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan aka "Flan Southside," were administrators of the Signal Chat group as just another "conspiracy theory" just had their ridiculous dismissal blown out of the water by the president of the Minneapolis Teacher's Union. Listen as she forthrightly admits that elected officials were proud of their work as Signal Chat administrators because they helped IMPEDE federal law enforcement such as ICE.

Paul addressed federal officials’ claims that Pretti posed a threat to ICE officers.... I saw no evidence of him assaulting the police,” Paul said. “The president’s advisor, Stephen Miller, called Pretti an assassin. That’s a lot of people–not telling the truth,” Pelley added. Paul shook his head at Miller’s statement and added, “It sounds like terrible judgment. I mean, terrible conclusions, incorrect conclusions, stating things that no one else believes.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he “saw no evidence” to back the claims of senior Trump administration officials that Alex Pretti was attempting to assault law enforcement officers and instead “saw a man that was retreating” when he was shot and killed by federal officers in Minneapolis. “I saw no evidence — I saw a man that was retreating. He went to the middle of the street, he didn’t even obstruct traffic, he let a car go through. As the agents advanced on him, he retreated to the side of the street. A woman is violently...

A pizza cutter-toting lunatic posed as an FBI agent in a botched bid to spring Luigi Mangione out of his notorious Brooklyn jail, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Minnesota native Mark Anderson approached the intake area at the Metropolitan Detention Center and made the head-scratching claim that he had an order “signed by a judge” to free the accused cold-blooded killer, who is being held without bail, according to court records and law enforcement sources. When asked to show his credentials, Anderson allegedly took out a Minnesota driver’s license, and said that he had weapons in his bag.

This video from Promethean Action argues that the unrest in Minneapolis is a professional "color revolution" orchestrated by globalists following the U.S. shift toward a non-interventionist foreign policy.

It has been revealed that anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday, broke his rib one week before the fatal shooting. Sources told CNN that Pretti suffered a broken rib around a week prior to being shot after a group of federal agents tackled him. The incident began when Pretti stopped his car after he observed ICE agents allegedly chasing a family on foot. The source said Pretti began shouting and blowing his whistle. Pretti had allegedly told the source that five federal agents tackled him and leaned on his back, leaving...

URGENT UPDATE: I’ve never experienced anything quite like today in my life. I’ve interacted with the Cartel and have witnessed some crazy things in the desert in ‘24. But what strikes me is how organized these agitators in Minneapolis are. They have spotters everywhere in the city and suburbs, on street corners, even 30 minutes away from downtown. They have people at hotels that work with them and signal to them which made it making it difficult for us to lose our tail once my cover was blown. Usually I lose a tail. Not this time. We switched locations THREE...

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is deploying TOM HOMAN to Minnesota TONIGHT — and confirms a DOJ investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar LET’S GO 🔥 “I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets.”...

YouTube video analysis of Minneapolis shooting of Alex Pretti. No transcript It is an analysis of what appears to be an accidental discharge of the Sig 320 as it is taken from Pretti and probably contagious gunfire. The video seems to show the 320 slide going back and forth as the gun discharges. It appears to be the same time as the first shot in the audio.

It is fair to say that until Kamala Harris chose her running mate in 2024, the vast majority of Americans had never heard of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Known during the campaign for little more than his weak-kneed response to the George Floyd riots of 2020 and for exaggerations about his National Guard service and military rank, he was an ever-grinning, ever-clapping cheerleader for Kamala’s word salads. However, in light of Minnesota’s “industrial-scale” social services fraud, likely involving billions in tax dollars funneled away from those most in need to those lining their pockets for vacations, jewelry, property, and luxury...

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...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the city will file a temporary restraining order on Monday in an effort to halt Operation Metro Surge and get federal agents out of Minnesota. FOX 9's Mary McGuire has more.

WASHINGTON — President Trump and top officials blamed Dem Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for “inciting” anti-ICE protesters, including Alex Pretti — drawing a line between the chaos in the Twins Cities and the Trump admin’s investigation of massive benefits fraud in the state. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the Trump administration began its massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota in response to the stagging welfare scandal the focused on the Somali immigrant community.“We saw a resistance in Minneapolis like we haven’t seen anywhere else in this country,” Noem told Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing....

When Renee Good drove her car into an ICE agent earlier this month, the left tried to gaslight us into believing she was just some innocent bystander who was just at the wrong place, that she’d just dropped her son off at school and wasn’t supposed to be there. That narrative fell apart fast. Good, we soon learned, was a trained anti-ICE agitator who was absolutely there to obstruct law enforcement. Now we're watching the same playbook unfold with 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the armed agitator shot dead by Border Patrol agents on Saturday in Minneapolis while confronting agents. The talking...

🚨 BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS MOB THREATENS TO KILL O’KEEFE — ICE BOTTLES THROWN, FOLLOWED, AND OMG TEAM UNDER ATTACK. My team and I are in downtown Minneapolis right now. We still have undercover reporters inside the mob. I was at the scene of the shooting this morning and barely made it out alive. Hundreds surrounded us. They were throwing ice bottles, ripping off my bulletproof vest. They even followed us all the way back to our hotel. As all of this was happening, we received death threats via text. Pray for our team out in the field. We are reaching a...

Coordinated protests launched by socialist, climate and Palestinian rights groups using similar languageWithin hours of a Minnesota protester being fatally shot after allegedly attempting to run over ICE agents, a familiar network of far-left protesters for causes ranging from communism to climate change mobilized across the country.The deceased, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by the Minneapolis City Council on Wednesday afternoon, was killed at the wheel of her SUV just after 11 a.m. ET. Federal authorities said she had tried to run over ICE agents who were part of a 2,000-strong team sent to the Twin Cities to round...

The parents of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the armed anti-ICE protester killed by a federal agent Saturday in Minneapolis, are scorching the Trump administration for "sickening lies" about their son. "The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting," said Michael and Susan Pretti. "Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs." "He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed." "We are heartbroken...

During a press conference on Saturday, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) criticized ICE.

In a letter to MN Gov. Tim Walz (D) Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records. @JasonWhitely