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Law Professor Jonathan Turley Slams Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for Wanting to be Part of Investigation of ICE Shooting (VIDEO)

by Mike LaChance Jan. 10, 2026 9:40 pm



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George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley appeared on FOX News this week to discuss the situation in Minneapolis following the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.

Turley slammed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for wanting to be included in the investigation of the shooting, noting that Frey wasted no time accusing the ICE agent of committing murder.

He also pointed out that the video of the shooting and legal precedent favor the ICE agent, who was forced to make a split second decision.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

INGRAHAM: Oh, yes, they were already convicting, they are convicting that ICE officer. Here to discuss Jonathan Turley, constitutional law expert, Fox News Contributor. Jonathan, Frey is demanding that the state be involved. Walz is accusing, though, agents of contaminating the scene, the crime scene. So what law takes precedent here — precedence here? And are they within their right to say, we must be involved?

JONATHAN TURLEY, GWU LAW PROFESSOR: No, they can ask to be involved, but they have no basis upon to insist on being involved. This is a federal investigation involving a federal shooting, and they do not have to be involved. I don’t expect they will be. And possibly the worst possible person to call for that type of cooperation is Mayor Frey, who soon after the shooting announced that this officer was a murderer and used today to say that he really wasn’t injured.

Now, I haven’t been in his kitchen, and I haven’t seen Frey’s fridge, but this does not strike me as a kitchen encounter. When you look at that video, it is a very significant collision with this officer.

And the video, most importantly captures something that’s missing on the internet as people slow down this video to the point that it seems like these officers could have gotten coffee and debated what they were going to do next. I mean, this really captures how it was a fraction of a second.

The key here is to look at this from the perspective of the officer, the motivations of Good do not matter. It’s her actions that matter.

So the question is, what did the officer see in that fraction of a second? That standard favors the officer. Now, we’re going to have a lot of investigation going forward, but people need to be clear what the standard is. To say that the officer was reasonable, does not necessarily mean that the officer was right. You could still disagree with the use of lethal force. But the question is, was this within the parameters, the discretion of the officer? That standard favors the officer, in my view, from this video.

Here’s the video:

https://twitter.com/i/status/2009785383928672378

Turley goes on after the video ends by saying that Democrats are using the left’s rage in Minnesota and that they are going to try to ride that rage all the way to the midterms. That is exactly right.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...s-mayor-jacob/