Feds investigating Gov Walz, Mayor Frey over alleged obstruction in Minneapolis

Fox Information has discovered that federal prosecutors are investigating each Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly obstructing regulation enforcement efforts within the blue state.

Two well-known sources confirmed the investigation, though no extra particulars in regards to the investigation have been publicly launched.

Sources stated the investigation is in its early phases and it’s unclear whether or not it’s going to result in prison costs.

U.S. Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche instructed Fox Information that the duo’s anti-ICE rhetoric bordered on a federal crime.

“If the governor or the mayor threatens our officers, if the mayor means that he encourages residents to name 911 in the event that they see ICE brokers, that comes very near a federal crime,” Blanche stated.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz are on the heart of a federal investigation into obstructing regulation enforcement. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs; Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune by way of Getty Photographs)

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Walz responded to the information on X, claiming the Trump administration was “weaponizing the justice system.”

“Two days in the past it was Elissa Slotkin. Final week it was Jerome Powell. Earlier than that it was Mark Kelly,” Walz wrote. “Weaponizing the justice system towards your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The one particular person not beneath investigation for the taking pictures of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.”

Frey additionally joined in on social media, claiming he “won’t be intimidated.”

“That is an apparent try and intimidate me as I get up for Minneapolis, native regulation enforcement and residents towards the chaos and hazard this administration has dropped at our metropolis,” Frey wrote. X. ‘I cannot be intimidated. My focus stays the place it has all the time been: retaining our metropolis protected.

“America is determined by leaders who use integrity and the rule of regulation to information governance. Neither our metropolis nor our nation will succumb to this concern. We stand rock strong.”

Each Democratic leaders have inspired anti-immigration enforcement protests following the demise of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent on Jan. 7 whereas allegedly blocking an ICE operation in Minneapolis.

The White Home Speedy Response 47 staff criticized Walz after a statewide speech Wednesday the place he known as for prosecution of ICE brokers.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., arrives for an oversight go to to the Episcopal Henry Whipple Federal Constructing, Jan. 10, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

“Assist us get an outline of what precisely is going on in our communities. You could have absolutely the proper to peacefully movie ICE brokers as they conduct these actions,” Walz stated. ‘So all the time carry your telephone with you. And when you see these ICE brokers in your neighborhood, choose up that telephone and press file.

“Assist us create a database of the atrocities dedicated towards Minnesotans, not solely to create a file for posterity, however to collect proof for future prosecutions.”

Frey known as for peace on Wednesday, simply days after telling ICE he needed to go away the town.

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White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson instructed Fox Information that Walz, Frey and different Democratic leaders “have completed nothing however increase the temperature, defame heroic ICE officers and incite violence towards them — all in protection of prison unlawful aliens.”

President Donald Trump warned Fact Social on Thursday that he would invoke the Rebel Act if Minnesotans proceed their aggression towards federal brokers.

“If Minnesota’s corrupt politicians don’t obey the regulation and cease the skilled agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the ICE Patriots who’re simply making an attempt to do their job, I’ll enact the INSURRECTION ACT, as many presidents earlier than me have completed, and rapidly put an finish to the travesty happening in that after nice state,” Trump wrote within the put up.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks throughout a information convention Jan. 9 at Metropolis Corridor. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Photographs)

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The Rebel Act, which permits the president to make use of the navy to suppress insurrections and implement federal legal guidelines, has not been invoked for the reason that 1992 Los Angeles riots.

If known as upon, Nationwide Guardsmen could also be deployed to conduct home regulation enforcement.

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Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman-Diamond contributed to this report.