There is no reason for them to fully stop these programs. The only reason they are doing that is for P.R. purposes.

What we do not want is the level of terror, of confusion, of chaos that is being created without any results in this moment.

What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties.

It's just creating fear.

It is not acceptable for Kristi Noem and the president and the vice president to make these kind of judgments without there being a full investigation.

She was anything but a domestic terrorist.

The fact that Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning.

When do things stop being about politics and start being about actual human decency?

This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.

This was a federal agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.

We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. Just yesterday, I said exactly that.

continue to do everything in my power to oppose this brutality, ensure justice is served, and keep Minnesotans safe.

Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.

This is a time to follow the law.

politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans

They want a show. We can’t give it to them. We cannot.

We collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this, to get justice, and to make sure that there is an investigation that is conducted in full.

What I can tell you is the narrative that this was just done in self-defense is a garbage narrative. That is not true. It has no truth. And it needs to be stated very clearly, since we have already seen a video of it.