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The fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis exposed the ugly truth about Minnesota's leaders.
They're already spinning it for political gain.
And Ken Cuccinelli just accused Walz and Frey of something sick after the Minneapolis ICE shooting.
Minneapolis descends into chaos after ICE shooting
An ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday morning during Trump's massive immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security deployed more than 2,000 agents to the Twin Cities area in what Secretary Kristi Noem called "the largest DHS operation ever."
Good was blocking ICE vehicles with her car when agents ordered her to move.
Video shows an agent at the front of her SUV as she began driving forward.
The agent fired three shots through her windshield.
Good crashed into a parked car moments later and died at the hospital.
Federal officials said Good weaponized her vehicle and tried to run over law enforcement officers.
Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin called it "an act of domestic terrorism."
President Trump shared video of the incident on Truth Social and said the woman "violently, willfully, and viciously" ran over the ICE officer.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the self-defense narrative "bullsh*t" after reviewing the footage.
Governor Tim Walz posted on X that people shouldn't "believe this propaganda machine."
Both Democrat leaders demanded ICE leave Minneapolis immediately.
Frey told federal agents to "get the f*** out of Minneapolis" during a heated press conference.
Tensions exploded on the street as protesters tried to block ICE vehicles from leaving the scene.
Border Patrol agents used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Minneapolis Public Schools shut down over safety concerns.
Walz issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard for deployment.
The governor spent his press conference warning Minnesotans not to "take the bait" from Trump.
Cuccinelli exposes Walz and Frey's twisted game plan
Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ken Cuccinelli served as acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump.
He appeared on Fox News after the shooting to give his take on what happened.
And Cuccinelli didn't hold back about Minnesota's Democrat leaders.
"This mayor and this governor, they want this," Cuccinelli said on The Will Cain Show. "They want this outcome. They want tragedy. They want harm. And they want to use it politically."
Cuccinelli said Walz and Frey "don't care about the people involved."
"They don't care about the ICE officer getting home to his family tonight," he explained.
"They don't care about the citizen who was tragically killed because of her own poor decision-making, frankly."
The former DHS official accused the Democrat politicians of seeing Americans as nothing more than political pawns.
"They don't care about those people," Cuccinelli stated. "They care about scoring political points."
Cuccinelli said Walz and Frey are perfectly willing to sacrifice lives to attack Trump.
"At the cost of the blood of their fellow citizens is utterly irrelevant to them," he said.
The accusation cuts deep because both Walz and Frey have a history of letting cities burn for political reasons.
Walz and Frey let Minneapolis burn in 2020
Cuccinelli pointed out that this isn't the first time these two politicians chose politics over public safety.
"I saw this when I was deputy secretary at DHS out in Portland, for example, and Minneapolis back then as well," Cuccinelli noted.
He was referring to the George Floyd riots in May 2020.
Minneapolis exploded into five days of violence that caused $500 million in damages.
Rioters burned, looted, or damaged more than 1,500 buildings across the city.
They torched the Third Precinct police station while officers fled.
Mayor Frey called Governor Walz on May 27, 2020 asking for the National Guard.
Walz refused to deploy troops for nearly 20 hours while the city burned.
More than 500 businesses on Lake Street went up in flames as Walz hesitated.
A post office, banks, and gas stations blazed through the night.
When Walz finally activated the Guard on May 28, he only sent a small contingent.
The burning continued for a third straight night before Walz fully mobilized the entire National Guard.
By then the damage was catastrophic and at least three people had died.
Walz later admitted the response was an "abject failure" after the destruction was complete.
But he and Frey blamed each other for the delayed response while Minneapolis residents suffered.
Now they're running the exact same playbook after the ICE shooting.
Frey is demanding federal agents leave while criminals run wild in his city.
Walz is mobilizing the National Guard — but threatening to use them against ICE instead of protecting citizens.
The governor warned Minnesotans not to let Trump "deploy federal troops" or "invoke the Insurrection Act."
He's more concerned about fighting Trump than stopping the violence he knows is coming.
Cuccinelli said this pattern will only get worse unless Americans wake up.
"This is a sad direction for this country," he warned. "It's not new today."
"Unless America changes course, this is only going to get worse as the years go on."
Walz and Frey proved in 2020 they'll let their cities burn to score political points against Republicans.
Now they're doing it again.
Sources:
- Ian Schwartz, "Cuccinelli: Minneapolis Mayor and Walz Want Tragedy and Harm, They Want To Use It Politically," RealClearPolitics, January 7, 2026.
- Minyvonne Burke, Julia Ainsley and Suzanne Gamboa, "After fatal ICE shooting, DHS and Minnesota officials share contrasting accounts," NBC News, January 8, 2026.
- Max Nesterak and Nicole Neri, "An ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis," Minnesota Reformer, January 7, 2026.
- Jacob Frey, "Minneapolis responds to fatal shooting of woman by federal agent," City of Minneapolis, January 7, 2026.
- Liz Navratil and Ryan Faircloth, "Fact check: Did Tim Walz 'let rioters burn down Minneapolis'?," Minnesota Star Tribune, September 5, 2024.
