MS NOW Host Asks State Attorney General If Cops Should Be 'Arresting' ICE Agents Using 'Excessive Force'
Source: MEDIAite
Dec 6th, 2025, 12:54 pm
MS NOW’s Eugene Daniels asked Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison if there is a reality where state police are arresting ICE officers for “excessive force.” Ellison joined MS NOW’s The Weekend on Saturday and Daniels brought up Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara warning officers they will lose their jobs if they do not intervene if they see ICE going outside the law.
“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” he said when asked how police should respond to excessive force by federal agents.
“What does that actually look like? I guess I’m just having a hard time picturing, and I think a lot of people will have a hard time picturing what that looks like for a police officer to intervene in with federal, you know, immigration enforcement and what that would entail, what it would look like,” Daniels said on Saturday after reading O’Hara’s comment.
Ellison, who said ICE agents are already operating in the state, said:
Well, the chief of police is just bravely trying to maintain law and order. All he’s doing is saying that in in Minnesota, and really around the country, all officers have a duty to lend medical assistance and to intervene when they see unlawful conduct. That’s not a new thing when it comes to policing. If an officer sees somebody, a colleague, take some money or something and then not put it in the evidence locker or sees somebody using excessive force, they have a duty and obligation to say, I cannot stand by and witness you engage in unlawful conduct.
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We have very strong state governments in this country. Our constitution is pretty explicit about that. It lists the powers of the federal government, not a terribly long list, and explicitly states everything else is up to the states. Including jurisdiction on nearly all violent criminal acts within their state borders. The Supremacy Clause gives feds immunity ONLY if acting within the scope of their official duties. Beating the shit out of people, particularly US citizens, and violating their civil rights isn't within those official duties.
If they break state laws in that regard, arrest and indict them. If the regime wants to fight that, OK, we'll see them in court. In the meantime, federal thugs get prosecuted under state law. And incarcerated in state lock ups. Oh, won't that be fun. 
"But the feds will stop sending federal money!" Yeah, and they're not doing that already? Do you want us to simply lay down and let them tromp all over us? Oh, hell no.
Ever wonder why the Fugitive Slave Act failed miserably. That's because northern free states simply wouldn't have it. Sure, federal agents and others deputized for the purpose could attempt to enforce it in free states but they were hamstrung at every turn by state governments. And if they didn't like it, tough. Go pound sand. Filmore threatened federal invasion, but that was politically impossible and backed the hell off. Another blowhard, presidential failure. Southern states threatened secession over the lack of enforcement. If they want to do the same now...well...bye. You just saved us the trouble.
