Jacob Frey Just Said He Never Incited Violence Against ICE. Here Are Times He Did.

• Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey flatly denies ever inciting violence, claiming he’s “never encouraged anything other than peace” despite his history of inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric.
• Frey previously told ICE agents to “get the f* out**” of Minneapolis and directly blamed them for a death, stating “somebody is dead. That’s on you.”
• Violent leftist protesters have assaulted ICE officers, thrown rocks, damaged vehicles, and obstructed arrests of illegal immigrants in the city.
• Frey dismissed ICE agents’ self-defense claims as “bullst**” and a “garbage narrative” after a protester was shot following an alleged attempt to run over an agent with a vehicle.
• On national television, Frey defended residents who “stand up for their neighbors” by physically blocking ICE operations, framing obstruction as legitimate community protection.
• He warned that continued ICE enforcement could turn Minneapolis into a “tinder box” where “somebody is going to get seriously injured or killed“—shifting blame onto federal agents rather than violent protesters.
• Frey insisted the city “cannot afford to lose a single Minneapolis resident” for defending neighbors against ICE, which critics see as tacit encouragement of resistance.
• Democratic leaders like Frey and Gov. Tim Walz have repeatedly labeled ICE agents as “domestic terrorists” and “Gestapo,” contributing to the escalating chaos while denying any role in inciting it.
• The article points out clear Democratic hypocrisy: outrage over an illegal immigrant being shot in the leg during an assault on an agent—after years of demanding leg shots as the “humane” alternative for police use of force.

Read the full story: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/15/frey-ive-never-incited-violence-n2669529