Frey: 'How many more residents ... need to die'
Mayor of Minneapolis
“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?”
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Reporting
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Reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's statement at a news conference hours after Pretti's shooting, questioning how many more people needed to be killed or hurt before Operation Metro Surge ended.
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Frey made the statement at a news conference held hours after federal agents shot and killed Pretti in his city.
After the quotation
Frey separately posted on social media that Minneapolis police would not enforce federal immigration law and that the department's focus was keeping residents safe.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Were Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP Officer Raymundo Gutierrez justified in fatally shooting Alex Pretti?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
Frey frames Pretti's death as evidence the operation itself is causing preventable deaths and injuries, condemning the enforcement conduct that led to the shooting rather than excusing or minimizing it.
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- Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez
Were Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP Officer Raymundo Gutierrez justified in fatally shooting Alex Pretti?
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