Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks at a press conference alongside city officials as he urges Somali residents to call 911 on masked individuals
Police leadership in Minneapolis is urging the city’s Somali community, and other immigrant residents, to call 911 if they spot masked individuals detaining people in their neighborhoods.
At a Tuesday press conference, Brian O’Hara, Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), warned that some masked individuals detaining people “may be kidnapping people,” saying the department had received “those reports.”
He urged community members to call 911 if they were unsure whether those enforcing arrests were legitimate law enforcement — and pledged MPD would investigate and log every such call.
He did not stop at documentation, however. “If there is anything that is … a violation of someone’s human rights or civil rights, excessive force or anything like that, they absolutely have a duty to intervene as police officers,” O’Hara declared.
Brian O’Hara:
“Folks that are masked—when people aren’t sure if they’re law enforcement, or if they may be kidnapping people—we have had those reports. I want to be clear to the community: the community should know that if you see something like that and you don’t know whether someone is law enforcement, you should call 911 and provide as much information as possible. Because let’s not forget, we very recently had a tragedy in this state involving someone who was purporting to be law enforcement.
So please, let’s be clear: that is something everyone should report, and we will immediately respond to it and document it—whether someone is unsure if there’s a kidnapping happening, or unsure if law enforcement is present or not.
And that is something else that is part of the additional policy requirements we are implementing: we will document and report these types of things anytime we hear them, and we are reminding our officers of their duty to intervene. So if there is anything involving someone’s human rights or civil rights, excessive force, or anything like that, they absolutely have a duty to intervene as police officers.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says that Somalians should call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to make arrests.
He says police will “immediately respond” and “intervene.”
Interfering with immigration enforcement is a CRIME. pic.twitter.com/yTY0lFg3Sb
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Chief O’Hara’s comments come amid media reports that ICE is preparing a major enforcement operation targeting hundreds of Somali illegal immigrants in the Twin Cities region.
According to sources cited by the far-left New York Times, roughly 100 federal agents from around the country have been deployed for what officials describe as “immigration enforcement.”
During the same briefing, Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis, joined the chorus of condemnation against what local officials framed as a federal crackdown, affirming that city policy forbids MPD cooperation with ICE on civil-immigration enforcement.
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The reported planning comes just days after President Donald Trump announced via his Truth Social platform that he was “terminating effective immediately” Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali immigrants in Minnesota, a claim at odds with federal law and current Department of Homeland Security policy. Somalia’s TPS designation is formally authorized through March 17, 2026, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. As of March 31, only 705 Somali nationals nationwide are currently approved for TPS, according to Congress.gov.
In recent days, Trump has intensified rhetoric against Somali Americans, claiming without evidence that “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State” and accusing Minnesota of becoming a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.” On Tuesday, the president referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” who should “go back to where they came from,” adding, “I don’t want them in our country.”
On Tuesday, President Trump did not hold back during his last Cabinet meeting of the year.
Trump went off on the Somali migrants after it was revealed Democrats allowed a $1 billion heist to take place largely through the Somali community in Minnesota.
The massive scandal happened on Tim Walz’s watch. The GOP-led Oversight Committee is conducting an investigation into the Somali fraud ring.
President Trump said he doesn’t want Somali migrants in the US.
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