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   One thing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is good at is not taking   
   responsibility for anything—even after hosting press conference after   
   press conference, calling for his own citizens to ignore the rule of   
   law, and requiring his own police department to stand down in the face   
   of rampant lawlessness.   
      
      
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   Look at the officer’s reaction.   
      
   Jacob Frey is a very dangerous man pushing for violence and should   
   resign immediately.   
      
   It’s well documented, after months of chaos on his streets, that Frey   
   was willing to destroy his city and put his own citizens at risk of   
   injury or death rather than help federal law enforcement apprehend   
   killers, rapists, violent criminals, and, yes, people who broke the law   
   to enter the United States.   
      
   Had he just done what other mayors have done, which is to allow his   
   police department to keep the peace while federal law enforcement does   
   its sworn duty, most likely two people wouldn’t have died. And, most   
   likely, Frey’s city would not have suffered economic damage to the tune   
   of $200 million.   
      
   In the last week, U.S. border czar Tom Homan announced the end to U.S.   
   Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis.   
   This means the withdrawal of roughly 2,000 federal agents.   
      
   According to the White House, “More than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens —   
   including violent killers, rapists, gang members, and other public   
   safety threats — have been arrested in Minnesota” since ICE launched   
   what it dubbed Operation Metro Surge.   
      
   There’s no telling how much crime was prevented by this, or how many   
   lives were saved in the process. You can’t track crimes that don’t   
   happen.   
      
   But what you can track is what happens to a town when the police force   
   is not allowed to do its job, what happens when you allow an organized   
   anarchist force to take control of your city—even to the point of   
   creating activist-controlled checkpoints on American streets.   
      
   Frey held a press conference after Homan announced the ICE drawdown,   
   this time trying to pin the problems he created on…guess who?   
      
   You’re right. President Donald Trump.   
      
   In quick order, Frey was able to assess the damage he created but shift   
   the blame to the Trump administration in a 38-page report his staff put   
   together.   
      
   According to KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, Frey cites $81 million in “lost   
   revenue for small businesses; $47 million in lost wages for people who   
   were afraid to leave home; $38 million in unrealized construction value;   
   and $4.7 million so far in hotel cancellations extending through the   
   summer.”   
      
   What this reveals, in part, is that Frey knew what he was doing to his   
   own city and didn’t care. Of course, none of this data is all that   
   reliable; one data point is outright suspicious. How do you track “$47   
   million in lost wages for people who were afraid to leave home”?   
      
   Still, it only makes sense that after what Frey put his city through, it   
   did suffer some major economic damage. People did avoid that city and   
   the state of Minnesota as a result. When you combine the problems   
   associated with the terroristic “ICE Watch” movement with the massive   
   amount of Somali fraud and corruption that still has yet to be fully   
   investigated, it’s safe to assume Minneapolis has taken and will take a   
   huge financial hit. And it all converged at the same time.   
      
   Want to guess what Frey is doing with that report now? You guessed it   
   right once again: He’s asking the state and the Trump administration for   
   “financial relief.” That’s correct. He wants to blame Trump for creating   
   a problem he created, and now he wants Trump to give him the money and   
   fix the problem for him – without giving Trump any credit, of course.   
      
   Frey’s report also estimated that roughly 76,000 residents had the need   
   for financial support for rent and for food, totaling approximately $25   
   million. Even though he refused to let his police department ensure law   
   and order, the city still incurred $6 million in expenses to “respond to   
   ICE’s presence in Minneapolis.”   
      
   The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, “The federal immigration   
   operation meant long hours for city employees as they answered 911 calls   
   from residents and ICE agents; put police on standby and sent them to   
   tense scenes, standoffs and shootings; and led to lots of cleanups after   
   protests and incidents.   
      
   “The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) extended shifts, canceled days   
   off and called in officers for emergencies. When MPD canceled days off   
   during five days in January, it cost the city about $3 million — more   
   than the $2.3 million in budgeted overtime for all of 2026.”   
      
   Keep in mind that they paid all of that for an MPD that they would not   
   allow to protect ICE agents and control those who were putting   
   themselves and others at risk by impeding ICE operations.   
      
   Now, the mayor will have to answer to taxpayers in his town, because if   
   he doesn’t get the outside money he plans to request, he may have to   
   enact higher property taxes on city residents.   
      
   When it gets to the ground level, it gets real. Eric Enge with the   
   Uptown Association talked to KSTP and said that many of the   
   association’s members saw a reduction in “foot traffic” anywhere from   
   25% to 80%. He told the TV station, “Some businesses are going to   
   close.”   
      
   KSTP reported that Gov. Tim Walz has already “proposed $10 million in   
   relief for affected small businesses.”   
      
   If you go by all the reports of corruption from his state, for Governor   
   Fabulous, $10 million is just "walking-around money."   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/02/16/minneapolis-is-down-200-millio   
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