MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — In a crowded downtown courtroom, just off the streets where weeks of mass protests have met the sub-zero quiet of winter, Minnesota state officials emphasized two fatalofficer-involved shootings and federal agents’ increasingly violent actions against peaceful protestors and bystanders in their Monday plea to end federal occupation in the Twin Cities.
Minnesota’s attorney Brian Carter argued that the federal government is “holding public safety hostage” in Minnesota by “commandeering” the legislative process — pointing to a letter from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, stating that the federal occupation would end only when Minnesota reverses its sanctuary policies.
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