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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologized to the Somali neighborhood for a remark he made connecting “East African children” to crime.
“The Somali neighborhood right here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has proven love in direction of me, and I respect it,” O’Hara stated at a information convention on Thursday. “Over the past three years we’ve got been working collectively to try to handle among the actual critical issues that we’ve got in our neighborhood.”
“Now we have to be trustworthy at occasions with the issues that we’re having in our neighborhood, and we’d like our neighborhood to assist us repair these issues collectively as a result of it is actual and it is critical. On the similar time, if folks have taken something that I’ve stated out of context in a manner that’s brought on hurt, I apologize, and I’m sorry for that as a result of that’s not my intention in any respect,” O’Hara added.
In an interview with WCCO earlier this month, O’Hara was talking a few lethal Halloween capturing in addition to juvenile crime plaguing town when he made the remark. Alpha Information reported that the Dinkytown space, the place the capturing happened, has seen a sequence of crimes together with assaults, robberies, shootings and auto thefts.
TRUMP TERMINATES DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR SOMALI NATIONALS LIVING IN MINNESOTA ‘EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY’
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks throughout a press convention concerning the Annunciation Church capturing in Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 28, 2025. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
Throughout the interview, he said that the younger folks committing the crimes weren’t “poor children from Minneapolis,” however quite children that come from out of city who take “mommy’s Mercedes-Benz to Dinkytown, and they do not know the place they’re.”
“Teams of children, teams of East African children which are coming from surrounding communities and never only one neighborhood, type of everywhere,” O’Hara informed WCCO.
After the interview, a petition on Change.org demanded an apology from O’Hara, saying that the East African neighborhood of Minneapolis “has already been carrying the burden of unfair scrutiny for years” and that the chief’s remark would “deepen that burden.”
The Minneapolis Somali neighborhood has confronted scrutiny on a nationwide stage in current days after a bombshell report revealed a sequence of alleged monetary schemes that ended with terrorists getting taxpayer {dollars}. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute discovered that Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia, was receiving funds that might be traced again to Minnesota.
“Each scrap of financial exercise, within the Twin Cities, in America, all through Western Europe, anyplace Somalis are concentrated, each cent that’s despatched again to Somalia advantages Al-Shabaab indirectly,” a former official who labored on the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Activity Power informed Thorpe and Rufo.
Ladies stroll alongside a tree-lined avenue in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, house to one of many largest Somali communities within the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox Information Digital)
Following the report, President Donald Trump introduced he was ending Non permanent Protected Standing (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota.
The Secretary of Homeland Safety might designate a rustic for TPS if nationals can not return safely or if the nation “is unable to deal with the return of its nationals adequately.” Nations at the moment underneath TPS are Burma, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen.
“Minnesota, underneath Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent cash laundering exercise. I’m, as President of america, hereby terminating, efficient instantly the Non permanent Protected Standing (TPS program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the folks of that nice State, and BILLIONS of {dollars} are lacking. Ship them again to the place they got here from. It’s OVER!,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
Rufo, one of many authors of the bombshell report, stated Trump’s announcement was a “nice begin” however that there’s nonetheless extra work to do.
“Canceling TPS for Minnesota Somalis is a good begin. Subsequent: evaluate all asylum, refugee, and citizenship functions for any trace of fraud or technical error; then provoke denaturalizations and mass deportations as much as the furthest limits of the legislation. They need to go house,” Rufo wrote on X.
Ladies stroll alongside a tree-lined avenue in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, house to one of many largest Somali communities within the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox Information Digital)
MINNESOTA TAXPAYER DOLLARS FUNNELED TO AL-SHABAAB TERROR GROUP, REPORT ALLEGES
Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn, who praised Trump’s determination, wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. Lawyer for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen demanding an investigation. The letter was additionally signed by Emmer’s fellow Minnesota Republicans, Rep. Pete Stauber, Rep. Michelle Fischbach, and Rep. Brad Finstad.
“It’s alleged that Minnesota’s Somali neighborhood, the most important within the nation, has been sending thousands and thousands again to Somalia through the hawala community, an off-the-cuff cash trafficking community which is infamous for funds ending up in terrorist networks, and on this occasion, Al-Shabaab,” the letter reads.
Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks throughout a press convention with members of the Republican Research Committee and different members of Home Republican management, on the twenty eighth day of the federal government shutdown in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Pictures)
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The lawmakers cited the varied instances involving members of the Somali neighborhood, together with the Feeding our Future fraud scheme, fraud within the Housing Stabilization Companies program, Little one Care Help program and Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
“It’s dangerous sufficient that these people are defrauding our state, taking companies and funds away from youngsters and probably the most weak, however now there’s a good purpose to consider that Minnesota taxpayer {dollars} are going straight into terrorists’ palms. These new allegations current not solely a critical betrayal of taxpayer belief, but in addition a grave menace to our nationwide safety,” the letter states.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Walz’s workplace for remark.
