The city of Roseville, like other cities in Minnesota, are really struggling to find a way to make meaningful impact on what is happening out there as we see uh events happening in Minneapolis and St. call and the challenges that they are having to try to prevent those things from happening. Uh we uh are struggling with the same thing as I talk to my colleagues. Every city is trying to find a way and how they can impact for a positive way and what's happening out there and there are unfortunately limitations. Federal law and authority supersedes the power of cities and to hold the federal government accountable to our community standards and expectations.

To summarize, the Roseville Police Department does not enforce immigration law, does not inquire about the immigration status unless directly related to a criminal investigation. Our focus as a police department continues to remain on the local level for local public safety and criminal law enforcement. We do coordinate with federal agencies when required by law or related to safety needs.

During the Trump administration's invasion and occupation of our state, federal immigration agents have racially profiled our neighbors, apprehended children, killed an innocent mother of three, disappeared community members, injured people, arrested multiple US citizens without cause. Agents of the Department of Homeland Security at the direction of Secretary Gnome have weaponized the federal government against our communities across this nation and they are acting with impunity.

You can instruct police to stop and ask the masked men with guns who they are and ask them not to congregate in our parks, even if you choose not to arrest them. You can instruct police to tell ICE agents they are breaking local law by staging military operations in the places where our children play. You can instruct them to write tickets for failure to comply. You can pass a law that states all law enforcement must show their faces and self-identify and then pursue the legal battles such new laws will involve.

I pulled up next to the officer and I explained what had happened. I wasn't expecting him to confront the dangerous men I had run into. I'm not blind to the complete inaction of our law enforcement over the last two weeks. But I told him how there were others now driving in that same neighborhood, and I feared for their safety. I asked only that he drive through to try and deescalate the situation. As the officer began to tell me that there was nothing he could, or should I say would do, two large black SUVs roared into the parking lot behind us. Within seconds, I was surrounded by six federal agents pounding on my windows and pulling at my door handles... I then watched as the Roseville police officer spoke briefly with the federal agents and pulled out of the parking lot.