The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over attainable obstruction of federal regulation enforcement, a source conversant in the matter instructed NCS.
President Donald Trump and his administration have been vital of state and native officers’ response to unrest in Minnesota over the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers, with the president suggesting he may invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to town to quell any violence. The investigation, although, represents an escalation of the rhetoric, threatening attainable felony penalties for the 2 Democratic leaders.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump posted Thursday on Truth Social.
NCS has reached out to Walz’s and Frey’s workplaces for remark.
The investigation was first reported by CBS-affiliate WCCO.
This is a growing story and shall be up to date.