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Retired NYPD Inspector Tells Minneapolis Police Chief To ‘Step Up And Be A Cop’ As City Descends Into ‘Chaos’

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Former Inspector Paul Mauro of the New York Police Department said Thursday that Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis Police Department needed to act because rioters opposed to immigration enforcement were creating “chaos.”

Riots against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis erupted after the Department of Homeland Security confirmed in a Wednesday post on X that an ICE agent who was ambushed by three people while conducting a “targeted traffic stop” shot an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Mauro said that the protesters were trying to provoke ICE into action and observed what agency was conspicuous by its absence.

“Notice who is not there. I have to do it again. I have to call out the Minneapolis PD leadership and the leadership of the Minnesota State Police,” Mauro told “America Reports” co-hosts Sandra Smith and John Roberts as video of the riots aired. “This is chaos. Part of their job is to keep order. Where are they? I really feel like Chief O’Hara has to step up and be a cop.”

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O’Hara compared illegal immigrants from Somalia to Mary during a Dec. 17 press conference  attacking ICE’s operation and apologized at a Nov. 20 press conference after he earlier discussed crime by “groups of East African kids” during a Nov. 11 interview with WCCO.

ICE deployed hundreds of agents into the Minneapolis area following revelations about welfare fraud in Minnesota prompted President Donald Trump to announce in November he would end “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis in Minneapolis in response to the allegations. Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said during an interview that aired on Dec. 7 that the local police would not support ICE enforcement operations.

Mauro said the rioters were trying to goad ICE agents into responding with force.

“They are doing everything they can to provoke. It’s on film,” Mauro said. “There will be lawyers in the crowd from the National Lawyers Guild, and they are very, very good at this. One of their funding streams, they will immediately file lawsuits. The cities always settle. The blue city settled. It’s part of the NGO-Democratic mayoralty sort of ecosystem. They settle.”

“One of the things people should take away from this is how law enforcement is almost always outnumbered. There is this canard that law enforcement comes in, they get called Nazis, they come in and they are stomping heads, it’s the reverse. Law enforcement is very proscribed about how they can react. It’s just lawyered to death,” Mauro continued. “These ICE cops have to stand there and take a tremendous amount of provocation and at the same time they are badly outnumbered. You can imagine what that feels like which is why you get incidents unfortunately like the Renee Good shooting.”

An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good during a Jan. 7 immigration enforcement operation. Video taken on a cell phone by the ICE agent who fired the fatal shots showed Good appearing to back up her car and looking right at the agent before she accelerated toward him after her wife shouted, “Drive, baby drive!” as other ICE agents attempted to detain her.