Minneapolis mayor who told ICE to 'get the f--- out' now calls for peace after another shooting incident
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called for peace amid escalating protests, a sharp shift in tone after he demanded days earlier that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "get...
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called for peace amid escalating protests, a sharp shift in tone after he demanded days earlier that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "get the f--- out" of the city. Frey appeared at a late news conference following the shooting of an illegal immigrant from Venezuela in the leg after he allegedly ambushed a federal agent with a shovel. "I’m calling for peace," Frey told reporters. "Everybody has a role in achieving that peace — and we’re going to try and do everything we can to keep it." DHS DEMANDS MN LEADERS HONOR ICE DETAINERS, ALLEGES HUNDREDS OF CRIMINAL ALIENS HAVE BEEN RELEASED UNDER WALZ Frey has repeatedly condemned ICE's mmigration enforcement operations, and again called for ICE to leave Minneapolis. "There's still a lot that we don't know at this time, but what I can tell you for certain is that this is not sustainable," he said. "This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in." "We're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street," he added. "We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another." He said ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents were "creating chaos," despite many being confronted, sometimes violently, by protesters upset at the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign. "I've seen conduct by ICE that is disgusting and intolerable," he said. He urged protesters not to "take the bait" from President Donald Trump. JD VANCE, ICE FLIP SCRIPT ON SANCTUARY CITY LEADERS AS 'CHAOS' ERUPTS ACROSS MN: 'THIS IS DANGEROUS' "And for anyone that is taking the bait tonight, stop," he said. "That is not helpful … You are not helping the undocumented immigrants in our city. You are not helping the people that call this place home." The mayor's tone is a stark difference from the tirade he u…