This week on Consider This, Minneapolis.
Are federal agents there operating with absolute immunity?
The only immunity the officer would have is
if he could demonstrate his actions were necessary and proper to carrying out his federal function.
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The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry interfered with federal immigration enforcement.
The probe centers on public statements they made during recent ICE raids across the Minneapolis region.
State Attorney General Keith Ellison says the DOJ is sending a dangerous message.
When powerful leaders use it and weaponize it, against people who are just doing their jobs.
As their voters elected them to do, that's a very sad day in America."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says both men need to quote,
get their city under control, accusing them of encouraging obstruction and even assault.
Walls and Fry have called for calm in a post on X.
Walls urged residents not to fan the flames of chaos.
Leaders from the Ogallala Sioux tribe say they're now considering whether to ban ICE agents from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
They say the move is in response to what they say was the unlawful detention of several of their tribe's members in Minneapolis by federal agents.
NPR's Kirk Sigler has more.
At a press conference in Minneapolis, Oglala Sioux president Frank Starr comes out,