Frey Discovers Federal Overreach, Forgets Local History
Mayor Jacob Frey is quoted in The Independent expressing alarm over an 'invasion' of ICE agents in Minneapolis and the potential deployment of active-duty soldiers. A peculiar outrage, considering this is the same mayor who oversaw the militarized crackdown on George Floyd protestors in 2020, where state and local forces, not federal, tear-gassed and arrested thousands of his own constituents. One
might ask where this sudden concern for an 'invasion' by armed state actors was when his city was besieged by its own police and National Guard. The underlying story for 'The Independent' is the shooting of Renee Good by a police officer. Yet, the article pivots to Frey's selective outrage over federal action, conveniently overlooking the established pattern of municipal heavy-handedness. When
mayors like Frey deploy their own armed forces against their population, it's 'maintaining order'; when the federal government does it, it's an 'invasion.' How many 'invasions' can a populace endure before it questions the very definition of security?