Feds launch Minnesota office on missing Indigenous cases

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mohamed Ibrahim, Associated Press/report For America
Updated 6:12 pm CDT, Monday, July 27, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ivanka Trump and Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt visited a Minneapolis suburb on Monday to open an office dedicated to investigating cold cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous peoples.

The office will be led by a special agent-in-charge from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services, and will coordinate efforts by local, federal and tribal law enforcement personnel to solve cold cases. It's the first of seven that will be opened across the country in coming weeks, including in Phoenix, Nashville, Tennessee and Anchorage, Alaska.

“Since his earliest days in office, President Trump has fought for the forgotten men and women of this country,” Ivanka Trump said. “Today is another fulfillment of that promise as this new office will work to ensure that the challenges American Indians and Alaskan Natives face do not go unseen or unresolved.”

. . .

Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the new office, waving an American Indian Movement flag and carrying signs that read “Trusting Trump = Death” and “No More Stolen Sisters.” State Rep. Mary Kunesh-Podein, who is of Standing Rock Lakota descent, joined protesters outside the new office.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Feds-launch-Minnesota-office-on-missing-15437019.php

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Hopefully, this is more than another PR con job by the Pig.

I wonder how many staff these offices are going to have and how much money has been appropriated to them to do their work.

[lostnfound]

2. Are they bringing smallpox blankets?

I wouldn’t trust them.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[Bayard]

4. "Since his earliest days in office,"

"President Trump has fought for the forgotten men and women of this country,”

Seriously? Think I'm gonna hurl.