"Mr. Secretary, do you think that there's any responsibility among the ICE officers, though, to be able to deal with these things in a way that does not end in tragic death? Sorkin began. I mean, I do think that, you know, you blamed Tim Walz, you blamed Biden, you blamed lots of people that have not shot people! You go back and look at what's happened in Minnesota over the years Hold on a second, Duffy interrupted."
"SORKIN: Mr. secretary, you look at some of those videos and they've become a Rorschach test, and people look at some of those videos, including the police officer who was standing in front of the car, something that everyone has been trained in the military and police not to do, and yet they did. And the question is, should there be accountability? Should there be proper investigations? Should there be investigations that Americans can believe in?"
The Transportation secretary blamed former President Joe Biden and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for violence in Minneapolis while defending ICE officers' conduct. Questions arose about ICE officers' responsibility to manage confrontations without fatal outcomes. The secretary cited incidents of a woman ramming ICE vehicles, officers being injured, and an officer reportedly having a finger bitten off, arguing such encounters are dangerous. Concerns were raised about bystander videos and whether investigations would be credible. The secretary endorsed the president's call for investigations and criticized protesters who confront armed federal officers and resist arrest.
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