An owner of a south Minneapolis restaurant said ICE agents entered the facility during business hours without a signed judicial warrant, KARE 11-TV reports. Hola Arepa owner and chef Christina Nguyen said “the officers were using intimidation tactics to instill fear in the restaurant’s employees, including telling them that agents ‘have the place surrounded.’” The agents left after staff asked them to present a signed warrant.
Gov. Tim Walz has joined in condemning President Trump’s remarks disparaging Minnesota’s Somali population, calling Trump’s words “vile, racist lies.” At a Thursday event on the state budget forecast, “Walz started by addressing Trump’s comments,” MPR News reports. “He lamented that ‘we’ve got little children going to school today, who their president called them garbage.’” But Republican lawmakers at the event “gingerly fielded questions about Trump’s remarks.” “Asked directly if she agreed with the president, GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth avoided condemning them and focused her remarks mostly on fraud cases.”
The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE arrested 12 people in Minneapolis this week, including six men were from Mexico, five from Somalia and one from El Salvador. “The department called ICE’s focus on the Twin Cities ‘Operation Metro Surge,‘” reports the Minnesota Star Tribune.
ProPublica obtained a recorded conversation between police and leaders at a Duluth church that reveals a years-long practice of sweeping child abuse under the rug with a “forgive and forget” approach. As ProPublica reports: “’This was like a fucking machine,’ said assistant St. Louis County attorney Mike Ryan, ‘that was basically trying to roll over these girls.’”
