LIVE: Gov. Walz Provides an Update on Minneapolis ICE Shooting

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Chrissy Gnome, Minnesota National Guard, Bob Jacobson, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Minnesota Department of Public Safety
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Minnesota National Guard
4. 12:00 – 15:00: Minnesota National Guard

Notable quotes from "LIVE: Gov. Walz Provides an Update on Minneapolis ICE Shooting"

• And today, that recklessness cost someone their life. I've reached out to Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Gnome, and I'm waiting to hear back.

  about Chrissy Gnome · at 0:32

• Working on the investigation. We have activated the state emergency operations center, state patrol and Minnesota national guard leadership is connected with the Minneapolis…

  about Minnesota National Guard · at 1:30

• Now, I'd like to turn it over to Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

  about Minnesota Department of Public Safety · at 2:38

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Chrissy Gnome — Person · 2 mentions · first at 0:36
• Bob Jacobson — Person · 1 mention · first at 2:40
  Now, I'd like to turn it over to Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

Companies & orgs

• Minnesota National Guard — Company · 4 mentions · first at 1:34
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety — Company · 2 mentions · first at 2:41

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 This morning, we learned that an ICE officer shot and killed someone in Minneapolis. My deepest condolences to the family, to the loved ones who had to learn about this tragic event on national television. We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. Just yesterday, I said exactly that. What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It's governing by reality TV.

0:32 And today, that recklessness cost someone their life. I've reached out to Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Gnome, and I'm waiting to hear back. Let me be clear that Trump and his Donald Trump and his administration may not care much about Minnesota. That's been pretty evident. But we love this state. We won't let them tear us apart. will not turn against each other. To motans, I say this. I feel your anger. I'm angry. They want to can't give it to them. We cannot. If you protest and express your first amendment rights, please do so peacefully as you always do. We can't give them what they want.

1:11 The hearts and minds of the people in this state are on our side. To Americans, I ask you this. Please stand with Minneapolis. To motans know that our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice. The state bureau of criminal apprehension are working on the investigation. We have activated the state emergency operations center, state patrol and Minnesota national guard leadership is connected with the Minneapolis Police Department, the St. Paul Police Department, Henipin County Sheriff's Office, the DNR, and Minnesota's Homeland Security and Emergency Management. We have activated dozens of members of the state patrols mobile response team.

1:52 And from here on, I have a very simple message. We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Christy Gnome, you've done enough. There's nothing more important than motan safety. I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you a warning order is a heads up for folks. And these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. They're teachers in your community. They're business owners. They're construction professionals. They are motans.

2:29 Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait. We will continue to update you Minnesota as we get more information. Now, I'd like to turn it over to Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

2:51 Thank you, Governor. As the governor mentioned, my name is Bob Jacobson. It is my honor to serve as the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. First of all, I want to acknowledge the reason that we are all here. The loss of life is not anything anyone would ever want. We fully expect that the community will want to peacefully demonstrate their anger or frustration. Minnesota residents and visitors have the right to peacefully demonstrate. We recognize that demonstrations are often driven by strong emotions, beliefs, and certainly a desire to be heard. Our role is to help ensure everyone can express themselves without anyone getting hurt.

3:40 The Minnesota Department of Public Safety's role through the Minnesota State Patrol is to ensure safety, protect constitutional rights, keep roads accessible, and above all to prevent harm. Our top priority is public safety. Our focus is keeping demonstrators, community members, drivers, and law enforcement safe, especially during moments of heightened tension or uncertainty. Demonstrations must remain safe and lawful, particularly around roadways. We will join with our partners to support safety while respecting the right to protest.

4:20 With that in mind, I'd like to share a few safe and lawful ways to demonstrate. Motans can safely and legally express their views in many ways, including getting together peacefully with others in public spaces, marching or walking not on roadways, making your voice heard through chants, speeches, and displaying signs, being present in public areas where pedestrians are allowed. Gathering in designated or permitted areas. And these actions will allow people to express themselves while protecting the safety of everyone involved.

5:02 Unsafe or illegal actions could result in fines or arrests. Certain behaviors create serious hazards that threaten public safety, disrupt emergency services, or put people at risk. These actions could result in fines or arrest. demonstrating on or entering a freeway on foot, walking on highways, throwing objects, starting or setting fires, damaging property or graffiti, using illegal fireworks, displaying or using illegal weapons, reckless or dangerous driving, especially near pedestrians, and certainly assaultive, aggressive, or riotous behavior toward anyone.

5:45 We all want definitive answers to what happened today. Our Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is working in conjunction with the FBI to investigate this morning's shooting. As you know, we don't comment on active investigations. But also keep in mind that this is an investigation is also in its infancy. So any speculation about what had happened would be just that. and we will not engage in speculation. With that, I will turn it back over to the governor. Thank you.

6:18 Thank you, Commissioner. We'd be glad to take any questions. National Yeah. And I could let I can let General Schaefer talk about this. It It so happens it's a training weekend. We've got about 7,500 troops in training at our sites, training sites across the state. What it is, and in the National Guard, you give a warning order, which is a heads up of of something could be coming. that just allows people to think about what they would need, what it would mean to mobilize, what it would mean to put them in. And and I could let the the general talk a little bit about this. Um, obviously since the the summer of of 2020, we had uh a lot of work done on teams being ready to to make sure that civil unrest and what that means, and I think Commissioner Jacobson was very clear, and I want Motans to hear this from me. I the desire to get out and protest and and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is.

7:07 That that is a patriotic duty at this point in time, but it needs to be done safely and I think the commissioner simply just laid out some of those parameters. We can do that. This is the peaceful resistance that we need. Um Simon, you want to say a few things about what that means to have them on the ready.

7:20 Yes, sir. Uh thank you, Governor. So, in for the military, Minnesota National Guard is comprised of 13,000 soldiers and airmen. We live all across and work throughout Minnesota. A warning order is just an initial step to increase your preparations. The Minnesota Guard is always prepared to respond and support state agencies and the citizens of the of Minnesota. So, what that means for us today is just some additional checks on equipment that are ready is ready all uh at all times and maybe some additional phone calls to service members who might be activated. Uh but nothing no activations. uh we are embedded with our state agencies here at the operations center to just continue parallel planning in the event that we are needed to support.

8:04 Thanks John. And I would make note Mary and to motans on this about the National Guard. They're there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights. These are our neighbors. They don't wear masks. They don't bust in from somewhere else. They're not here to cause the hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy. um having them at the ready to make sure because when we see these types of things happen and we saw it uh after the murder of George Floyd, there's folks that want to cause chaos. There's the disruptors in it. While the vast majority of those protests were peaceful expressions, their first amendment rights, there were those that destroyed property and put people at risk. The National Guard is there to make sure that peaceful protests are able to be done and that those that want to do the destruction are are stopped from doing that.

8:47 Yes. Yeah. And well and I think uh apparently by a federal agent uh not by motans who were there to express their their first amendment rights. I think we've seen this at to have folks ready. Uh the gatherings that were down there today I think this shocked everyone. people showed up as they should. There's people putting flowers down on a memorial. There's people expressing their anger. Um, it's just as these situations develop, we decide when we need to move these people out. And I I think the the the local reporters know well on this, both unfortunately and and for us, the the upside of this is is that we're very good and we've had practice at this. And and I just want to again implore motans. I am not telling you not to express your anger or your your frustrations or um the outrage that we have. Look, this was this was totally predictable as I said it yesterday and it was totally avoidable. And I just

9:55 wanted to remind you too that local law enforcement, we we get no coordination. They don't tell us they're coming. They don't say why they're sending the largest deployment in American history to Minneapolis. They're not they're not making us any safer. We don't have any of that coordination. They should be talking to us when we do these things. Let us know. We are going to be down here. This is going to happen. We don't have that. So, when you see local law enforcement or state patrol or if it would take the National Guard, we're there responding to the chaos they've created, too. But our role is is to make sure that we're protecting motans so that something like this doesn't happen.

10:33 I have not. The question was, have I spoken to uh the individual's family? No, we do not have a definitive uh ID on this individual. Um and and I look, I'm I'm going to note to all of you, I think it's really important and and the professionals do this and they train me to do this. This is an open investigation. You need to be very care careful about it. I know that many of you, myself included, have seen a um a very difficult video to watch. one where there's a family member watched their family member be shot and killed in in front of them. Um it's it's beyond me that apparently from the federal government from the Homeland Security director herself has already determined who this person was, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. Uh it this is we're not living in a normal world. And so no, I have not. And I want to be very careful because I know how painful this is. I

11:25 know how painful it is right now. I'm saying person and all that. This is a human being. This very well is a, you know, an individual's child, a parent. Um, and and we don't know that yet. So, no, I have not, but once we do, we will. So yes.

11:46 Colonel, would you like to do that? Colonel, the governor was mentioning how many state people.

12:05 So the question was uh how many are in how many state patrol troopers uh have been deployed to the city of Minneapolis. Uh right now we don't talk typical numbers because that is considered security information. We do have a specialized team um that does uh deal with crowd control and so they have been deployed but again they are from all over the state of Minnesota. So uh they will come in in tears to the state

12:31 and they already they it was in response to this event I'm sorry. What was Well, I said this yesterday. We've never been at war with our federal government. Um uh I think in this case that the National Guard is is their main mission. They have a dual mission. There's there's the federal mission when they're under title 10 orders and then they're under title 32 orders. in this warning order. There's nothing officially been done yet. If I am to activate them as the commander-in-chief of the Minnesota National Guard, I will issue the executive order to the Minnesota National Guard and then they will be put in state duty status. And as you've seen over the last few years, that could be flood prevention. That could be after a windb blowing, you know, uh, storm up in the north up in Baiji, or it it could be CO uh or George Floyd response. In this case, again, it doesn't necessarily change the mission. They're there to

13:45 protect motans. They're there to serve motans. I I think the thing that is so challenging in the moment we're in is we don't see a desire to work with us on public safety. We hear a demonization of our state. We see people coming in who don't know our community and we see this massive display for the TVs that we're trying to understand how is this coordinated and some of you watch the videos on there. total chaos. And and look, I have very limited work in this is is the training in the National Guard, but I've had a lot of training now to watch how our professionals operate after this person was shot, federal agents milling around, touching the vehicle at a crime scene and things. I I I don't know what to tell you and I I I don't quite know how to respond to the the question other than my primary responsibility as governor is the protection of the people of Minnesota.

14:42 And you can be assured whether it's the state patrol or whether it's the National Guard, their deployment is there to protect motans from whatever it is. If it's an act of nature, um if it's a global pandemic or in this case, um if it is a rogue federal agent, I don't I don't know at this time. And I want to be very careful. unprecedented that we have the federal government's already determined exactly what's happened here and the motives of an individual that we don't even know the name they don't know the name and that's very difficult so well one more Dana Dana

15:33 It look and I I understand the uniqueness of this moment uh in this week come following this week seeing what's happening in the the backdrop of a of a show hearing in in DC. My job is to govern and my job is to see what the facts are. Um, this happened a couple of hours ago and we're we're already pitting American against American. All of you saw a video in your eyes. We have a chaotic situation caused by the largest deployment in American history of federal agents into a community with no communication to locals. We had a chaotic situation where an individual is in their car shot and killed. And so, look, I I want to be very cautious here because Donald Trump will make this about me. He will make this about politics. This is about public safety and this is about normaly. To Americans who are watching this, if you're in Portland or or you're in LA or you're in Chicago or you're wherever they're coming next, um, stand

16:43 with us. Stand with us against this. This this was so so preventable, so unnecessary, and I don't know. I hope maybe we're at the McCarthy moment. Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. And and I I don't I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this, they're going to create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is going to get killed. And they did it. And and now we hear more political rhetoric. Enough. Enough is enough. And so to motans, don't take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to invoke the insurrection act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state. And let's let this investigation play itself out. Let's make sure we protect our neighbors. I encourage you to use your first

17:53 amendment rights and all of your constitutional rights, but do so in a peaceful manner. We'll gather back with you as soon as we gather more information that needs to be put out. But again, um, stay safe motans and, uh, we'll be back with you. Governor,

18:07 thank you. Thank you, Baham.

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "LIVE: Gov. Walz Provides an Update on Minneapolis ICE Shooting"?

In order: 0:00 Chrissy Gnome, Minnesota National Guard, Bob Jacobson, Minnesota Department of Public Safety; 3:00 Minnesota Department of Public Safety; 6:00 Minnesota National Guard; 12:00 Minnesota National Guard.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

4 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Minnesota National Guard, Chrissy Gnome, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Bob Jacobson. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "LIVE: Gov. Walz Provides an Update on Minneapolis ICE Shooting"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 2,896 words in 27 timestamped sections.

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