Mayor Jacob Frey has a blunt message for the people who were offended by him telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, moderator Kristen Welker asked Frey if he feels responsible “to bring down the temperature” in his city amid protests across the country in the wake of an ICE agent fatally shooting 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.
“Of course I bear responsibility to bring down the temperature. That’s part of my role as mayor. And by the way, protests here in Minneapolis are peaceful,” he responded. “We had, I don’t know, 10,000 or so people that were protesting and marching yesterday. And virtually all of it was a very peaceful expression of First Amendment rights.”
The Minneapolis mayor went on to directly speak to those who were “offended” by his explicit language, straight up telling them, “I’m sorry I offended their delicate ears.”
Frey then argued that ICE killing Good is the “inflammatory element here, not the F bomb,” adding, “I’m sure we’ve all heard [the word] before.”
