#minnesota

#minnesota

Target's incoming CEO, who starts next week, sent a video message to staff in which he described the violence and loss of life in the local community as "incredibly painful;" he did not mention Trump or ICE directly. Others have been more blunt. Big names in tech and venture capital, as well as small business owners around the country, have expressed outrage at the Trump administration and ICE on their own social media pages, using words like "murderer," "shameful," and "a conscious-less administration."

A Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti, 37, a US citizen who worked as a nurse at the local Veteran Affairs hospital, on Saturday morning. Pretti had been filming federal immigration agents when the confrontation began. Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul have been the site of continuous protests since the Department of Homeland Security flooded the cities with immigration agents in December.

The six-minute speech aired just hours after the Department of Homeland Security announced that Operation Metro Surge had resulted in 2,500 arrests across the state since last month. Federal officials said that roughly 800 Customs and Border Protection agents are now operating in the Minneapolis area, in addition to about 2,000 ICE and other federal agents already deployed in what the administration has described as the largest DHS operation in history.

A new, 47-second video published online by a Minnesota-based conservative news site, Alpha News, on Friday, and later reposted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security, shows the shooting from the perspective of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the shots on Wednesday. With sirens blaring in the background, Ross, 43, approaches and circles Good's vehicle in the middle of the road while apparently filming on his cellphone.

Hilton said Tuesday that it is removing a Minnesota hotel operator from its system after a video surfaced that purported to show an employee declining to provide rooms for immigration enforcement employees.

What sucks for them is they're never gonna be able to get me. I don't drink alcohol, I don't do drugs, I'm a virgin. I don't have sex with random girls. You're not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges. I don't have any addictions, I don't have any vices. So what are these people gonna get me for. They're done.

Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. a community that's recently faced attacks from President Trump. On Tuesday, Trump called Somali immigrants "garbage" and said he wanted to send them "back to where they came from." He continued on Wednesday, saying, "they've destroyed our country and all they do is complain, complain, complain." The tirade came less than two weeks after Trump threatened to strip temporary legal protections from Somali migrants living in Minnesota.

Walz, quote-posting a screenshot of the Trump Truth Social post, told the president: Release the MRI results. The president's post, which triggered Walz's sharp reply, claimed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota, and alleged that Somali gangs were roving the streets looking for prey. The segue on Somalians and Minnesota came in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan national.

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If visiting Minnesota in the dead of winter doesn't sound appealing, then you probably don't know about The Great Northern Festival, an event that embraces the north's bitter cold and celebrates all things winter. Cross-country skiers make their way across frozen lakes, hockey players take to the ice, and people gather in the freezing cold to cool down following a steamy session in the pop-up sauna village.

Lake Alice, a 26-acre gem in Minnesota, was drained due to a stuck valve meant to control its water levels, leaving only a stream and dead fish.

Boelter confessed to the 14 June shootings of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in a handwritten letter to the FBI. The motivation behind his actions remains unclear.