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During an interview on MS NOW, Dem Rep Ilhan Omar said the Trump administration is sending in troops to make Minneapolis look like “ground zero for criminality” when really they are just neighbors showing up for each other:“Protest is as American as apple pie. People come out to register their opposition to what they do not like or want to accept, and it is important for people to be able to do that in a democracy. What we are seeing right now, not only with the surge of 2000 federal agents, but now we have another thousand apparently coming in, is essentially trying to create this kind of environment where people feel intimidated, threatened and terrorized. And I think the ultimate goal of Kristi Noem and President Trump is to agitate people enough where, you know, they are able to revoke the insurrection act and institute martial law because there is no other justifiable way to describe what is taking place in Minneapolis at this moment. There is no justifiable reason why this number of agents are here in our state. They’re not sending forensic investigators to look into fraud. Since Trump has come in, we are still prosecuting the people that were investigated and set up for prosecution for fraud under the Biden Administration and the Biden AG. We are not seeing the level of descriptions that they normally provide about the hardened criminals that they are picking up. What we are seeing is that they’re stopping people. They are profiling people. They are threatening those that are trying to track their movements and try to get information on what is happening to their neighbors. We are seeing dozens and dozens of citizens being arrested. This is really a chaotic situation that is avoidable. But the administration and Noem think it is a good PR tool for them to use to make Minneapolis look like it is ground zero for criminality, when all that we are seeing is our neighbors lovingly showing up for one another to protect one another.“Source: MS NOW/Grabien