00:00We've also spent a lot of time talking last 24 hours about accountability.
00:04That means no function of government operates with impunity. It means when someone's in a
00:09position of authority and they commit any act that impacts our people, there has to be another place
00:19to turn to get justice. Checks and balances. Basic idea, the center of the formation of our country.
00:26It's the only measure that protects us from the abuse of government or federal overreach
00:33or tyrannical government. Yesterday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the BCA, spent the
00:39day yesterday attempting to get that accountability. We have learned that the Trump administration has
00:44now denied the state that ability to participate in the investigation. And I just want to make this
00:49as clear as possible to everyone. Minnesota must be part of this investigation.
00:56These are nonpartisan career professionals that have spent years building the trust of the community.
01:04There's a BCA force investigations unit that was created by the legislature, by the people of
01:11Minnesota, to provide an independent, consistent, and trusted mechanism for investigating the use of
01:18force incidents involving law enforcement officers. Minnesota has seen our share of these. And what
01:24you've seen is, and I have witnessed it during my time, that these professionals have risen to the moment.
01:30They are trusted by people. People who are not by inclination trusting of law enforcement or government
01:37have come to see the professionals at the BCA as true arbitrators that can get them justice.
01:44The unit is the result of years of scrutiny, public engagement, and bipartisan legislative action.
01:53Minnesotans have made it clear time and again they expect transparency through this process where a
01:58police officer uses deadly force. The BCA Commissioner, Superintendent Evans, have earned that trust by
02:06delivering on that expectation. I think it's clear to everyone as they saw this that it feels now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation.
02:22It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome. And I say that only because
02:30people in positions of power have already passed judgment from the president to the vice president
02:39to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate.
02:47They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn't even know don't know.
02:54They've determined that the actions are done. I don't know. I've not used inflammatory terms of what happened.
03:01I've asked us to find the answers. The only way we find the answers is a thorough investigation
03:08by non-partisan professionals. We've delivered that. We've been able to do it. We've earned the trust.
03:15And when I say that, the trust of BCA, and I tell Minnesotans the trust of law enforcement here.
03:21Everyone knows globally, certainly here, that George Floyd, who was murdered a few blocks from this site,
03:29tore at the soul of who we were. But we healed. We built back trust.
03:34Chief Brian O'Hara came in and took one of the most difficult jobs in America of building back trust in
03:39the police force in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. And he's earned that and
03:44he's level and he's fair and he's asking for that. And so Minnesotans, I will continue to press
03:52that we be part of the investigation, that we do the investigation so that Minnesotans can trust what
03:58the outcome is. I don't have a predetermined notion. Yes, I saw the video. Yes, I saw that,
04:05but a thorough investigation will see what happened before that. It will take all factors in and it
04:10will come up with a fair and just conclusion. And we will accept that. Very, very difficult for
04:16Minnesotans to think in any way this is going to be fair when Kristi Noem was judge, jury and basically
04:22executioner yesterday. That's very, very difficult to think that they were going to be fair.
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