Governor Walz Speaks to Minnesota: Calls for Mass Resistance: Takes Your Breath Away.

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40. Posting Gov. Walz's transcript for those who can't watch the full video

My fellow Minnesotans, what's happening in
Minnesota right now defies belief. News
reports simply don't do justice to the
level of chaos and disruption and trauma
the federal government is raining down
upon our communities. 2 to 3,000 armed
agents of the federal government have
been deployed to Minnesota.

Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are
going door to door ordering people to
point out where their neighbors of color
live. They're pulling over people
indiscriminately, including US citizens, and
demanding to see their papers.

And at grocery stores,
at bus stops, even at our schools,
they're breaking windows, dragging
pregnant women down the street, just
plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them
into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent
people with no warning and no due process.

Let's be very, very clear. This
long ago stopped being a matter of
immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a
campaign of organized brutality against
the people of Minnesota by our own
federal government. Last week, that
campaign claimed the life of Renee
Nicole Good. We've all watched the video.

We've all seen what happened. And
yet, instead of conducting an impartial
investigation so we can hold accountable
the officer responsible for Rene's
death, the Trump administration is
devoting the full power of the federal
government to finding an excuse to
attack the victim and her family.

Just yesterday, six federal prosecutors,
including the longtime career prosecutor
leading the charge to investigate and
eliminate fraud in our state's programs,
quit their jobs rather than go along
with this assault on the United States
Constitution.

But as bad as it's been, Donald Trump
intends for it to get worse. This week,
he went online to promise that quote,
"The day of retribution and reckoning is
coming." That's a direct threat against
the people of this state who dared to
vote against him three times and who
continue to stand up for freedom with
courage and empathy and profound grace.

All across Minnesota, people are
stepping up to help their neighbors who
are being unjustly and unlawfully
targeted. They're distributing care
packages and walking kids to school and
raising their voices in peaceful
protest. Even though doing so has made
many of our fellow Minnesotans targets for
violent retribution.

Folks, I know it's scary and I know it's
absurd that we all have to defending law
and order, justice, and humanity while
also caring for our families and trying
to do our jobs. So tonight, let me say
once again to Donald Trump and Kristi
Noem, end this occupation. You've done enough.

Let me say four
critical things to the people of
Minnesota. Four things I want you to
hear as you watch the news and look out
for your neighbors.

First, Donald Trump
wants this chaos. He wants confusion.
And yes, he wants more violence on our
streets. We cannot give him what he
wants. We can we must protest loudly,
urgently, but also peacefully. Indeed,
as hard as we will fight in the courts
and at the ballot box, we cannot and
will not let violence prevail.
You're angry. I'm angry. Angry is not a
strong enough word. But we must remain
peaceful.

Second, you are not powerless.
You are not helpless. And you are
certainly not alone. All across
Minnesota, people are learning about
opportunities not just to resist, but to
help people who are in danger. Thousands
upon thousands of our fellow motans are
going to be relying on mutual aid in the
days and weeks to come and they need our
support. Tonight I want to share another
way you can help. Witness help us
establish a record of exactly what's
happening in our communities. You have
an absolute right to peacefully film ICE
agents as they conduct these activities.
So carry your phone with you at all
times. And if you see these ICE agents
in your neighborhood, take out that
phone and hit record. Help us create a
database of the atrocities against
motans. Not just to establish a record
for posterity, but to bank evidence for
future prosecution.

The third thing I want to say to you
tonight is we will not have to live like
this forever. Accountability is coming
at the voting booth and in court. We
will reclaim our communities from Donald
Trump. We will reestablish a sense of
safety for our neighbors and we will
bring an end to this moment of chaos,
confusion, and trauma. We will find a
way to move forward and we'll do it
together. And we'll not be alone. Every
day we are working with business
leaders, faith leaders, legal experts,
and elected officials from across this
country. They've all seen what Donald
Trump is trying to do to our state, and
they know their states could be next.

And that brings me to the fourth thing I
want to say tonight, Minnesota. How
incredibly proud I am of the way that
you've risen to meet this unbearable
moment. But I'm not at all surprised
because this this is who we are. Motans
believe in the rule of law and motans
believe in the dignity of all people.
We're a place where there's room for everybody.

No matter who you are or who
you love or where you came from. A place
where we feed our kids. We take care of
our neighbors and we look out for those
in the shadows of life. We're an island
of decency in a country being driven
towards cruelty. We will remain an
island of decency, of justice, of
community, of peace.

And tonight, I come before you
simply to ask, don't let
anyone take that away from us. Thank
you. Protect each other. And may God
bless the people of Minnesota.