“There’s still a lot that we don’t know at this time, but what I can tell you for certain is that this is not sustainable,” Frey said. “This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in, and at the same time, we are trying to find a way forward, to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order. And we’re in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street, to stand by their neighbors.”

“We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another,” Frey added. 

Frey later took to social media to echo many of his statements from the press conference. He also called for peace, saying that “everyone” can contribute to enabling that peace and sustaining it. 

“Tonight a man was shot in the leg by an ICE agent on the Northside,” Frey said in a social media post on X. “No matter what led up to this incident, the situation we are seeing in our city is not sustainable.”

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“I’m calling for peace. Everyone has a role in achieving that peace,” Frey said. He also encouraged protesters to not “take the bait.”

“I have seen conduct from ICE that is intolerable,” Frey said. “And for anyone taking the bait tonight, stop. It is not helpful. We cannot respond to Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos.”

Regarding the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security made a social media post about the incident on Wednesday night, reporting that while “conducting a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis of an illegal alien from Venezuela,” the suspect “fled the scene in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car” while attempting to evade arrest. The officer caught up to the suspect and a physical confrontation ensued in which “the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer.”

“As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick,” the Department of Homeland Security posted on its X account. “Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg.”