'How many more Americans need to die?': Minneapolis mayor lambastes Trump after fatal shooting
Source: The Guardian
Sat 24 Jan 2026 13.28 EST
Last modified on Sat 24 Jan 2026 14.40 EST
The following text is a statement given by Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey at a press conference in the wake of the fatal shooting of a local citizen by federal law enforcement on Saturday.
I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans, need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?
How many times must local and national leaders plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city. We have seen these kinds of operations in other places, in other countries, but not here in America, not in a way where a great American city is being invaded by its own federal government.
Those peaceful protests embody the very principles that both Minneapolis and America was founded upon, conversely, the masked, militarized force and unidentified agents who are occupying our streets, that is what weakens our country. That is what erodes trust in both law enforcement and in democracy itself.
I’m done being told that our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets. I’m done being told that our local elected officials are solely responsible for turning down the temperature. Just yesterday, we saw 15,000 people peacefully protesting in the streets, speaking out, standing up for their neighbors. Not a single broken window, not a single injury.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/jacob-frey-full-statement
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