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sl8

(17,006 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 07:40 PM 10 hrs ago

Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with ICE

https://www.facebook.com/mnfop/posts/january-8-2026for-immediate-releasefop-stands-with-iceminnesota-fraternal-order-/1337523008421118/

Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police's Post

Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police is in Minneapolis, MN.
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January 8, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“FOP Stands with ICE”
Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric

(Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them.

The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities.

When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning.

The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the facts come out.

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Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with ICE (Original Post) sl8 10 hrs ago OP
Of course they do. Chasstev365 10 hrs ago #1
Who did Nazi that coming? NotHardly 10 hrs ago #2
lol why wouldn't they? WhiskeyGrinder 10 hrs ago #3
Anyone expecting local or state police to stop ICE is dreaming. sop 10 hrs ago #4
What "attacks"? Did someone shoot them in the face? surfered 10 hrs ago #5
Of course they do. Ocelot II 10 hrs ago #6
Did they criticize TSF, Gnome, and others for lying immediately after spooky3 10 hrs ago #7
Correction : Minnesota FASCIST Disorder of Police stands with ICE Bread and Circuses 10 hrs ago #8
Do they stand with the Jan 6th insurrectists too? dem4decades 10 hrs ago #9
---and the horse they rode in on. Though, I ain't really got nothin' against the horse. 3Hotdogs 10 hrs ago #10
Domestic terrorist? Jarqui 9 hrs ago #11
Murderers of a feather . . . iemanja 6 hrs ago #12
This is a joke kacekwl 5 hrs ago #13
Scum attracts scum. SamKnause 2 min ago #14

Ocelot II

(129,171 posts)
6. Of course they do.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 07:58 PM
10 hrs ago

And yes, of course an officer who's accused of a crime is entitled to due process - but that cuts both ways. The people who are the victims of the accused officer's crime - and all the rest of us - are also entitled to a fair resolution of the officer's guilt or innocence. But apparently it's OK to accuse the officer's victim of domestic terrorism and making her death at the officer's hands her fault without even investigating what actually happened in order to exonerate the officer in advance. The statement calls for "a stop to the anti-law enforcement rhetoric . . . while the facts come out." That would be fine - if we had any realistic hope of an impartial investigation and not one conducted by the same government that has already decided the outcome.

spooky3

(38,293 posts)
7. Did they criticize TSF, Gnome, and others for lying immediately after
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 08:00 PM
10 hrs ago

the shooting?

Seems as if they would if they are truly concerned about "They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning." In fact, Dems commented and responded AFTER TSF and his minions did, to try to counter the misinformation and smearing of Ms. Good.

And I heard NO Dem say ICE agents should be denied due process (which is carried out in the courts). Anyone is free to form an opinion and express it (with the risk of potentially negatively influencing court processes), but again, they should be far more concerned about the potential tainting effect of what the President said about this than others' statements.

Bread and Circuses

(1,593 posts)
8. Correction : Minnesota FASCIST Disorder of Police stands with ICE
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 08:04 PM
10 hrs ago

Sickening. They actually are showing us who they are.

Police agencies hate the people … .

3Hotdogs

(15,046 posts)
10. ---and the horse they rode in on. Though, I ain't really got nothin' against the horse.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 08:09 PM
10 hrs ago

Jarqui

(10,826 posts)
11. Domestic terrorist?
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 09:07 PM
9 hrs ago

That is the plastic surgery of the facts that Kristi Noem crafted within hours of the mother of three's death accusing the mother of trying to run down the ICE officer rather than the reality: the mother was trying to get away from them.

President Trump said the officer was hospitalized and lucky to be alive (complete BS)

Where is the presumption of innocence?

Why is the FBI blocking local state police from investigating and the evidence?

ICE is allowed to arrest illegal aliens and those crossing the border illegally. Ms Good was neither of those.

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