Police union head slams Minn. as Gov. Walz agrees to have top cop work with border czar

 NY Post  (And also now the California Post)  

“ 'Since the Republican National Convention was held in St. Paul back in 2008, Minnesota law enforcement has undergone extensive training in mobile field force configurations and crowd management for major events. And because of that, I think we’re in the best position to deal with that,” Ross said." 

Peaceful Protest | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"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.

“ 'Unfortunately, our local politicians would not allow us to do that,” he added.

"As a result ICE and Border Patrol agents — who are not trained to deal with civilian protests in the same way — have been all on their own to deal with angry locals.

"He said that such cooperation didn’t even require changing Minnesota’s sanctuary laws — or helping ICE make immigration arrests. 

“ 'Had we been allowed just a little bit of coordination –  not in terms of what ICE is doing, but if they say, ‘Hey, we need to go to this place to serve a warrant, we’re going to be out there a couple hours. We’re nervous that crowds are going to form and give us trouble. Can you come out and help?’ That’s something we can easily coordinate with a little bit of notice, and sometimes with hardly any notice, we can get out there quickly,” Ross said.

“ 'I believe, had we been able to do that, that there would be no loss of life at this point,” he said." . . .

What’s Really Causing the Minnesota ‘Insurrection’?  

Walz certainly has not been innocent in the outbreak of anti-ICE violence, having denounced the federal agents as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” That remark was made last May, months before Donald Trump’s recent “surge” of ICE to Minnesota, which followed in the wake of a viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley that exposed apparent fraud in the state’s Somali immigrant community. Many commentators immediately saw the connection: Walz and his fellow Democrats in Minnesota are up to their eyeballs in the fraud scandal — estimated to involve billions of dollars stolen from taxpayer-funded benefit programs — and the deportation of illegal immigrants threatens to break the Democratic Party’s control of the state’s government. (RELATED: Blame Tim Walz for the Federal Presence in Minnesota)

About Pretti’s Gun: An Inconvenient Truth (For The Left)

. . . "There is a call of “Gun, Gun, Gun!” and then Pretti moves his hand with something in it. There’s no time for calm reflection." . . .

. . . "The law is clear. In Barnes v. Felix (2025), a unanimous Supreme Court held that an officer was entitled to consider the totality of circumstances when reacting to a situation. From the viewpoint of the officers, it’s clear that they were responding to a perceived deadly force threat. They were fully justified in firing until they determined that the threat was neutralized. They did not have to make perfect decisions. They had to make decisions that would be reasonable to another officer placed in the same situation." . . .

 Ted Noel is a retired anesthesiologist and Second Amendment student. This post is based on a presentation at our October 2024 conference on the National Firearms Act.