Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pandered to radical left-wing activists after the death of George Floyd. It is now being revealed to him that none of it mattered, because he is still too much of a white man for those race-obsessed radicals.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is the Democratic Party in Minnesota, did not choose to endorse Frey in his reelection campaign. Instead, the DFL endorsed his top opponent, state Sen. Omar Fateh, a destructive left-wing ideologue who wants to impose a $20 minimum wage and wants to keep violent criminal illegal immigrants from being deported from the city. Fateh is anti-police, an antisemitic propagator of the “Gaza genocide” lie, and a self-professed socialist.
The state of Minnesota has taken a hard left turn, and the result is the Minneapolis DFL making an endorsement in the mayor’s race for the first time in 16 years. Frey’s pandering to anti-police, race-obsessed activists has apparently earned him no goodwill among his fellow Democrats. Frey attended Floyd’s funeral, which featured antisemite Al Sharpton as a prominent speaker, and broke down in a performative crying fit. Frey wailed about “a hundred years’ worth of intentional segregation and institutionalized racism,” and tried to downplay Black Lives Matter riots by falsely claiming the rioters were out-of-state agitators.
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That was not good enough to protect Frey from the wrath of these anti-police ideologues. Protesters heckled him for not supporting the abolition of the city’s police department. Fateh says that policing is a “decades and decades–old system that has gotten away with murdering black men and people of color” and that police officers are purposefully killing black people, knowing that they can get away with it.” There is always a more radical fish.
Frey has no one to blame but himself for his current situation. He fed into the anti-police sentiment to try and win over the very activists and party officials who are stabbing him in the back now. He showed moral cowardice in 2020 by refusing to defend his city and police department, and he is now being outflanked to his left by a sincere, anti-police socialist. Jacob Frey let himself get swept up in the political moment, and now the very movement responsible for that moment wants to dump him for his service.