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明尼阿波利斯市长沙雅各布·弗雷（Jacob Frey）在周三晚间的美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）市政厅会议上，坚定维护该市的”庇护城市”政策，并再次要求联邦移民执法人员撤离该市。
弗雷发表上述言论之际，州、地方和联邦官员正试图在两位居住在明尼阿波利斯的美国公民–蕾妮·古德（Renee Good）和亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）被杀害后，寻找缓解紧张局势的方法。
弗雷于周一与总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）进行了交谈，随后特朗普似乎软化了对市长和明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹（Tim Walz）的评论。但在周三，特朗普的语气发生了转变，他表示市长坚持当地警方不会参与执行联邦移民法的做法是”玩火”。
在市政厅会议期间，三位明尼苏达州共和党州议员也表示，明尼阿波利斯动荡局势的责任应由特朗普政府以及民主党州和地方领导人共同承担。
明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森（Keith Ellison）表示，州政府官员仍不知道参与杀害普雷蒂的联邦特工的姓名。
三位宗教领袖表示，他们正在努力带领一座悲痛的居民感到愤怒的城市。圣琼·阿卡天主教社区教堂的神父吉姆·卡西迪（Jim Cassidy）称：”我们神职人员也可能会非常愤怒。”
亨内平大道联合卫理公会教堂的首席牧师伊丽莎白·麦考利（Elizabeth Macaulay）牧师说：”我们能做的一件事就是记住自己的力量。我今天可能没有精力，但身边的人会有，我们一起可以度过难关。我对此坚信不疑。这很可怕，也很痛。”
以下是CNN市政厅会议的六个关键点：
“现状必须改变”
弗雷表示，他周一与特朗普进行的对话”富有成效”且”彼此尊重”，但在周三晚上，他对联邦移民执法人员撤离明尼阿波利斯的要求丝毫没有退让。
“我现在说的和当时说的一样。”他强调。
弗雷提出了两个具体要求。首先，他表示州政府官员应该主导对古德和普雷蒂被杀案的调查。他不信任联邦政府从一开始就认定这两起案件是”自卫行为”且古德和普雷蒂是”国内恐怖分子”的结论。
他还希望近期派往明尼阿波利斯的数千名移民执法人员的行动能迅速结束。弗雷向听众透露，他在与特朗普的边境事务负责人汤姆·霍曼（Tom Homan）会面时已表达过这一诉求。霍曼是总统本周派往明尼苏达州的，以监督政府在普雷蒂被杀后试图缓和紧张局势的行动。
弗雷表示，霍曼与州和地方官员的会面并没有承诺在任何特定时间结束联邦行动。
“但，”他说，”大家普遍认为现状需要改变。”
他希望明尼苏达州的执法人员数量能减少，并且联邦特工与当地观察者之间的暴力冲突能够结束。
“但我还是要亲眼看到才会相信。”弗雷说。
地方政府是否应协助抓捕非法移民？
特朗普在周三的社交媒体上抨击弗雷，称这位连任三届的民主党市长在周二表示明尼阿波利斯不会改变其庇护城市政策，也不会协助执行联邦移民法后”在玩火”。
但弗雷在周三晚间坚持称，该市及其警方”将做好自己的工作，而不是联邦政府的工作”。
“我希望我们的警察把时间花在保护市民上——阻止凶杀和劫车；确保暴力犯罪者受到调查和问责。”他说。
弗雷强调，这并不意味着明尼阿波利斯的执法部门不会与联邦特工合作抓捕任何罪犯。
“重要的是，当你试图抓捕凶手或强奸犯时，你首先不会问’你来自哪里？’”他说。
“重要的问题是，’他们是否实施了强奸？是否谋杀了某人？’如果是的话，我们会调查并合作处理。”他补充道。
“我不希望他们花一秒钟去追捕一个刚把孩子送到日托所、即将开始12小时轮班、恰好来自厄瓜多尔的父亲。”弗雷说，”那个人？他使我们的城市变得更美好。我们为明尼阿波利斯有他而感到自豪。”
他解释了该市的庇护政策，称明尼阿波利斯官员希望非法移民在必要时能毫无惧怕地拨打911报警，而不必担心被驱逐。他称这些政策是”安全策略”，并表示他不希望警察把时间浪费在调查未犯罪人员上。
警方局长称移民执法人员使用”可疑”战术
明尼阿波利斯警察局局长布莱恩·奥哈拉（Brian O’Hara）严厉批评了联邦移民执法人员在该市的执法手段，称社交媒体上流传的执法人员与当地民众冲突视频”显示很多方法存疑，而且战术对执法人员或社区都不安全”。
他表示，边境巡逻队和移民海关执法局特工的做法”看起来像20或30年前的警务模式”，并且这些人员似乎”缺乏协调”。
奥哈拉还试图将联邦移民执法人员的做法与明尼阿波利斯警方的做法进行对比。他称，在该市，当地执法部门一直”非常强调在可能的情况下尽量缓和紧张局势”。
“这意味着我们试图放慢节奏，平息局势，而不是无端升级冲突。”他说。
弗雷称普雷蒂冲突视频不能成为杀人的理由
在周三晚上的市政厅会议上，弗雷首次观看了普雷蒂与联邦移民执法人员之前发生冲突的视频。
新曝光的视频显示，普雷蒂在被扑倒在地前踢了执法车辆的尾灯。弗雷表示，无论视频内容如何，都不能成为普雷蒂在一周多后被杀害的理由。
“我们真的要争辩说，亚历克斯·普雷蒂应该因为11天前发生的事情而被杀死吗？”他问道，”我认为我们应该讨论的是导致杀人的环境和实际发生的事情。”
“涉及的所有人都有责任”
参与CNN市政厅会议的明尼苏达州三位共和党州议员（州议员诺兰·韦斯特（Nolan West）、埃利奥特·恩根（Elliott Engen）和参议员迈克尔·霍姆斯特伦（Michael Holmstrom））并没有免除特朗普政府在明尼阿波利斯街头发生的混乱中的责任，但他们表示州和地方民主党官员也应承担部分责任。
“涉及的所有人都有责任。”州议员诺兰·韦斯特说，”我们看到的是，没有人愿意降温，只有针锋相对，我们不能合作。”
埃利奥特·恩根议员也指责”所谓的领导人”导致了明尼阿波利斯的”绝对动荡”。他表示，民主党州长瓦尔兹本应与联邦移民官员合作，识别驱逐目标。
恩根和其他共和党人在几个关键点上与特朗普和联邦官员存在分歧。
恩根承认联邦移民执法人员在一些冲突中扮演了角色。”双方都有很多负面言论，我不会否认这一点。”恩根说。
韦斯特强调，他不主张驱逐所有非法移民，称这”从根本上不可能”且”是经济自杀行为”。
霍姆斯特伦参议员则反驳了特朗普关于普雷蒂不应携带枪支的言论：”我当然不同意总统的观点。”他强调支持第二修正案（公民持枪权）。
不过，霍姆斯特伦表示，他相信联邦政府会对普雷蒂被杀案进行公正调查：”我相信他们能进行适当的调查。”
埃利森称州政府不知射击普雷蒂的特工姓名
埃利森表示，联邦政府拒绝透露枪杀普雷蒂的移民特工姓名”感觉像在掩盖事实”。
埃利森气急败坏地强调，明尼苏达州官员正在对普雷蒂被杀案进行调查，并且该州已通过法院下令保护相关证据。但他也承认，明尼苏达州官员尚未掌握参与普雷蒂被杀事件的特工姓名。
“我们听说可能有这些人的名字存在于某种报告中。”他说，”但我还没有听到。我相信我们会得到这些名字。但我现在不知道，这是荒谬的，也说明我们得到的合作太少。”
埃利森还表示，副总统J.D.万斯（JD Vance）在古德被杀后声称联邦移民执法人员”享有绝对豁免权”是错误的。他称希望能与副总统就这一问题进行辩论。
“任何在本州犯罪的人都可以被指控并追究法律责任。”埃利森说。
本报道已更新更多细节信息。
（图注：2026年1月28日，明尼阿波利斯市CNN市政厅会议现场。奥斯汀·斯蒂尔/CNN拍摄）
（图注：明尼阿波利斯警察局局长布莱恩·奥哈拉在市政厅会议上发言。奥斯汀·斯蒂尔/CNN拍摄）
（图注：明尼阿波利斯市长雅各布·弗雷在市政厅会议上发言。奥斯汀·斯蒂尔/CNN拍摄）
（图注：明尼苏达州共和党议员诺兰·韦斯特、埃利奥特·恩根和迈克尔·霍姆斯特伦在市政厅会议上发言。奥斯汀·斯蒂尔/CNN拍摄）
（图注：明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森在市政厅会议上发言。奥斯汀·斯蒂尔/CNN拍摄）
Takeaways from CNN’s Minnesota town hall
By Eric Bradner
Updated 1 hr 7 min ago
Updated Jan 28, 2026, 10:03 PM ET
PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2026, 8:51 PM ET
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a CNN town hall Wednesday night, stood by the city’s sanctuary policies and repeated his demand that federal immigration agents leave the city.
Frey’s comments come as state, local and federal officials look for ways to tamp down tensions in the wake of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two US citizens who lived in Minneapolis.
Frey spoke on Monday with President Donald Trump, who then appeared to soften his comments on the mayor and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. But Trump’s tone changed Wednesday, when he said the mayor is “playing with fire” by insisting local police won’t play a role in enforcing federal immigration laws.
During the town hall, three Republican state lawmakers also said blame for the chaos in Minneapolis is shared between the Trump administration and Democratic state and local leaders.
And Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said state officials still do not know the names of the federal agents involved in Pretti’s killing.
Three faith leaders said they were grappling with leading a city where grieving residents feel a sense of rage. Father Jim Cassidy of the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community Church said that “the challenge is that we clergy can also get very riled up.”
“One of the things that I ask people to remember is their own power,” said Rev. Elizabeth Macaulay, the lead pastor at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. “I may not have the energy today, but someone else beside me will, and together we can get through this. I believe it strongly. And it’s awful, and it hurts.”
Here are six takeaways from CNN’s town hall:
‘The present status needs to change’
Frey said he had a “productive” and “collegial” conversation with Trump on Monday. But didn’t back down at all Wednesday night from his demand that federal immigration agents leave Minneapolis.
“I’m saying the same things now that I said then,” he said.
A CNN Town Hall in Minneapolis on January 28, 2026.
Austin Steele/CNN
Frey had two specific demands. First, he said, state officials should lead the investigations into the killings of Good and Pretti. He said he doesn’t trust a federal government that “came to a conclusion from the very beginning” that the those killings were acts of self-defense and that Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists.
He also said he wanted the federal operation that has seen thousands of immigration agents swarm the Twin Cities in recent weeks come to a rapid conclusion. Frey told the audience he said as much in a meeting with Trump border czar Tom Homan, who the president sent to Minnesota this week to oversee the administration’s efforts there in an attempt to ease tensions in the wake of Pretti’s killing.
Frey said a meeting between Homan and state and local officials didn’t end with a commitment to ending the federal effort “on any given timeline.”
“But,” he said, “there was a general consensus that the present status needs to change.”
He said he hopes that the number of agents in Minnesota will be drawn down, and the violent clashes between federal agents and local observers will end.
“But again, I’ll believe it when I see it,” Frey said.
Local role apprehending undocumented immigrants?
Trump on Wednesday attacked Frey on social media, saying the third-term Democratic mayor was “playing with fire” after Frey said Tuesday that Minneapolis would not change its sanctuary policies and would not help enforce federal immigration laws.
But Frey insisted Wednesday night that the city and its police “are going to do our jobs, not the federal government’s jobs.”
“I want our police spending time protecting the residents of our city — stopping homicides and carjackings; making sure violent offenders are investigated and held accountable,” he said.
That isn’t to say Minneapolis law enforcement wouldn’t cooperate with federal agents to apprehend any criminals, Frey said.
“Importantly when you’re trying to catch a murderer or a rapist, the first question that you ask is not, ‘Where are you from?’” he said.
“The question that’s important is, ‘Did they rape somebody? Did they murder somebody?’ And if they did, we investigate and we partner to do so,” he said.
“I don’t want them spending a single second hunting down a father who just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12-hour shift, and happens to be from Ecuador,” Frey said. “That guy? He makes our city a better place. We’re proud to have him in Minneapolis.”
He explained the city’s sanctuary policies, saying Minneapolis officials want undocumented immigrants to feel like they can call 911 when necessary without fearing deportation. He called those policies “a safety strategy.” And he said he didn’t want police spending their time investigating those who haven’t committed crimes.
Police chief says immigration agents using ‘questionable’ tactics
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks during a CNN Town Hall in Minneapolis on January 28, 2026.
Austin Steele/CNN
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara was sharply critical of federal immigration agents’ tactics in the city, saying that viral social media videos of encounters between those agents and local observers “show a lot of methods that are questionable and tactics that just do not appear safe — for agents or community.”
He said Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ approach “looks like policing 20 or 30 years ago,” and said those agents often did not appear to be working “in a coordinated way.”
O’Hara also sought to contrast federal immigration agents’ approach with Minneapolis police. He said in the city, local law enforcement has been “placing a very strong emphasis on trying to deescalate situations whenever possible.”
“That means we try to slow things down. We try to calm the situation, and not unnecessarily escalate things,” he said.
Frey says video of separate Pretti clash doesn’t justify killing
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks during a CNN Town Hall in Minneapolis on January 28, 2026.
Austin Steele/CNN
Frey watched a video of a prior altercation between Pretti and federal immigration agents for the first time during Wednesday night’s town hall.
The newly surfaced video showed Pretti kicking the taillight of a law enforcement vehicle before being tackled to the ground. Frey said regardless of that video’s contents, it did not justify Pretti’s killing more than a week later.
“Are we actually making the argument that Alex Pretti should be killed for something that happened, like 11 days prior to the shooting itself?” he said. “I think we should be talking about the circumstances that actually led to the killing and what took place and those circumstances.”
‘It’s literally all the people involved’
Republican Minnesota lawmakers State Reps. Nolan West and Elliott Engen as well as State Sen. Michael Holmstrom join a CNN Town Hall in Minneapolis on January 28, 2026.
Austin Steele/CNN
Three Republican Minnesota state lawmakers who participated in CNN’s town hall didn’t absolve the Trump administration for its role in the chaos that has played out in the streets of Minneapolis, but they said state and local Democratic officials bear a share of the blame.
“It’s literally all the people involved,” said state Rep. Nolan West. “That’s what we’re seeing, is that there is not a desire to lower the temperature. It’s immediately tit-for-tat, we’re not going to work together.”
State Rep. Elliott Engen also faulted “our supposed leaders” for the “absolute unrest” in Minneapolis. He said Walz, the Democratic governor, should have cooperated with federal immigration officials to help identify targets for deportation.
Engen and the other Republicans did break with Trump and federal officials on several key points.
Engen acknowledged the role federal immigration agents have played in some clashes. “There’s been a lot of negative rhetoric that’s been spewed both ways, I will not deny that,” Engen said.
West emphasized that he didn’t favor deporting all undocumented migrants, calling it “fundamentally impossible” and “economic suicide.”
State Sen. Michael Holmstrom broke with Trump over the president’s assertion that Pretti should not have been carrying a gun. “I certainly disagree with the president on that,” he said, emphasizing his support for the Second Amendment.
However, Holmstrom said he trusts the federal government to handle the investigation into Pretti’s killing. “I believe that they can conduct a proper investigation,” Holmstrom said.
Ellison says state officials don’t know names of agents who shot Pretti
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison during a CNN Town Hall in Minneapolis on Wedneday, January 28.
Austin Steele/CNN
Ellison said the federal government’s refusal to release the names of the immigration agents who shot Pretti “feels like a cover-up.”
An exasperated Ellison insisted that Minnesota officials are moving to investigate Pretti’s killing, and he said the state moved to secure a court order to protect evidence. But he also acknowledged that Minnesota officials do not know the names of the agents involved in the altercation in which Pretti was killed.
“We have heard some reports that the names might be — exist, in a report form,” he said. “I haven’t heard them yet. And I am confident that we will get those names. But the fact that I don’t know them yet is an absurdity, and an example of how little cooperation that we’re getting.”
Ellison also said Vice President JD Vance’s claim — which came in the wake of Good’s killing — that federal immigration agents are “protected by absolute immunity” is wrong, and said he would like to debate the vice president on that point.
“Anybody who commits a crime in this state can be charged and held accountable for that crime,” Ellison said.
This story has been updated with additional details.