Into civil unrest and eventually violence and rioting. This morning in minnesota, the sun came to came up as it does this time of year, bright. Trees are butted out. Flowers are up. The promise of summer after a long winter is there. I want to say thank you to all of the people of and a soda who protected their neighbors, who took an unprecedented step last that an unprecedented force of our neighbors and Public Servants were able to come together, execute the most operationblic safety in the states history. They did so in professional manner. They did so without a single lossoflife and minimal property damage. I am grateful to those folks. I am grateful for their protection of minnesota. Again to make note once that the Operational Plan and the decision to operate falls with me. When the order to do so, the actions that happen after that are my responsibility. I want to once again extend my deepest apologies to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation, were inadvertently but nevertheless detained. To them personally and to the news organizations and to journalists everywhere, it is unacceptable. I said when it happened the other day i need to do better. I take full responsibility. And will not equivocate no matter how difficult the environment is p i would ask folks to know that in restoring public order and adhering to democratic principles and having a history of welcoming that openness, it is not our intention nor is it helpful to restoring public order to have that happen. You can rest assured we will look back again at what happened, try and make those changes. Again that we will continue to dialogue with the media. It is critically important i am able to maintain or restore their trust in the necessity of them being out there to tell the story. Day filled with tension. It was a day unlike any other us in minnesota had seen. The raw emotions were on display. The said yesterday, beautiful expression of solidarity and community we saw played out by Peaceful Protesters, by that beautiful minnesota,at is indigenous dancers leaving in the middle while the crowd kneeled around in reverence in making sure justice was served. I gathered yesterday with a group of leaders, elected leaders, clergy, moral leaders. Lead with Lieutenant Governor flanagan. Senators klobuchar and smith and an array of leaders. If any of you got the opportunity to hear some of those remarks, i said for the first time in quite some time, a weight felt off my heart for what minnesota could be. We were there for dual purpose. The first was to send a message to stay home last night. To stay off the streets to allow us to execute this so we could restore order. It was very clear that was not the primary message. That message was a means to an end. Each and every one of them did to open up the space for the real conversation. A real understanding that george floyd was dead and the conditions here in minnesota contributed to that. And that we needed to deal with that. That space was created by last nights action to have us deal with the systemic issues we see exploding across the country. Before i was in elected office i am a Public School teacher by trade. One of the things i was most proud of and i think as minnesotans, any of you across the world may be getting your first look at who we are. That is unfortunate, but it is real. We will take that look. One of the things i am so proud of, our Public Schools consistently rank at or near the top. We are a state that extends from the canadian border. We have lakes so clear and pristine their 40 foot deep and you can see the bottom and drink from them. Mining that the steel was used to build the country. We are a top agricultural producer. We are home to a concentration of fortune 500 companies. We innovate. We are passionate people. Statistic, as governor i like to talk about this in the things we say. We do not just rank the top on educational attainment. We rank near the top on personal income, on homeownership, on life expectancy. One that came in while back, you rank second in a survey of 50 states in happiness. Behind hawaii. If you take a deeper look and peel it back, all of those statistics are true if you are white. If you are not, we rank new the bottom. What this week is showing us is those two things can operate at the same place. You cannot continue to say you are a great place to live if your neighbor because of this cut because of the color of their skin is not have the same opportunity. That will manifest in things that are the small hidden racisms. Will manifest itself in a child of color not getting the same a blackities or community not being able to acquire wealth through homeownership because of lending practices. Week, thesaid last ultimate end of that type of behavior is the ability to believe you can murder a black man in public and it is an unusual thing murder charges were brought days later. What i would like to say again i want to thank everyone who participated in our ability to restore trust to our streets. It was incredibly complex. It was incredibly difficult. Back to ay gets us place we were before and that place is not good enough. That place is not one that will get us the solutions. Im going to leave the details of the operation to those commanders on the ground who executed this. It does fall to myself, other elected leaders, Community Leaders and others that if we do not get to that systemic problem, eventually this will get us back to a point that led to our communities on fire. Our security and safety in question. And a searching for who we are. I could not be more proud of who we are as a state. I could not love this state more. In doing so, that tough love means things have to change. We have got to figure out how justice is served in the groups of people that asked for this, the groups of people who were part of that message with Lieutenant Governor flanagan weeding it as an indigenous woman leading it as an indigenous woman. Represented of omar on the streets begging people to come home. To receive a call last night from jayz. Not International Performer but dead. But dad stressing to me that Justice Needs to be served. That this is a place that wants to do it. This is a place that does it but we have to follow through. Im going to transition. If the chaos of this week of tension and frayed nerves two people i am grateful that have been able to weather an emotional roller coaster who i have leaned to to be candid and be able to be in a room to asking question things are the mayors of our great cities. Two Young Leaders with vision. Two Young Leaders who have been talking about the systemic issue since they were elected. It was their platforms to make these changes. I am proud of the way they have conducted themselves with mayor carter from st. Paul and now mayor frey from the great city of minneapolis. The governor mentioned just a couple seconds ago this concept of who we are. In talking about who we are and seeing who we are, it is important to acknowledge the positives as well as the negatives. For those of you that are seeing minneapolis for the first time, you saw at five you saw said five minutes at our worst followed by a week of great difficulty. However, i also want you to see some of the positives. Last night was sandwiched between a beautiful rally of thousands of people from our native community all rallying around a common cause, which is each other, which is diversity, which is everything we hold dear. It was safe. It was peaceful. It was joyous. There was singing. There was dancing. That is also who we are. On the others of that sandwich was the events we are seeing this morning, which is people coming out of their homes, walking to their business is, picking up debris, pulling out a with and showing that even the grave difficulty we have had over the last week, even though the whole world has seen us at our worst, we can still be at our best. Right tot is also acknowledge first that no mare could have ever imagined the scenes that played out yesterday on our streets. Wouldterdays activity ever be considered somehow to be more stable than the days that had preceded. Yesterday, the overarching mission was preservation of life, preservation of property, and restoration of order. To all our neighbors who stayed home and gave our First Responders the opportunity to succeed and i do mean it. They would not have had the opportunity to have any form of success without you staying at home. Monday, may 25 when an officer murdered george floyd has renewed a collective trauma in our city and our nation. Community, for for our black committee, for our young people, we are going to keep working. We are going to keep working to strive to make sure the twin cities can be better. We know there is a lot of work ahead. We know there is a long way to go. I will just talk briefly about night, which last were obviously difficult to watch, with the restoration of order in some form was important but the restoration of order in some form was important. We had no significant fires last night. Seen, just after around 8 30, there were 10 fast strike teams. 10 mobile force units. Movingre charged with people away from the fifth precinct followed by making arrest should there were about by making arrests. There were about 25 arrests. We have got a lot of work to do ahead. We have a whole lot of work to do ahead. What has happened to george floyd is indelibly etched into the soul of minneapolis. The action of one and the inaction of three officers have forever changed our city. We must become a better city. We must become a more just city. That is the task ahead of us today. That is the task ahead of us tomorrow and into the future. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Yesterday, we asked a big thing of our residents. We asked you to stay home. We asked you to clear the streets, to give our Police OfficersLaw Enforcement tofessionals the opportunity reclaim a sense of peace, a sense of calm, a sense of order in our community. At the heart of that request was an invitation. Us to an invitation for take the anger, to take the grief, to take the trauma and even the rage we have all experienced over the past week. And decide how we would channel it. We can either channel this energy towards destroying our own communities, towards burning and looting are barbershops, our restaurants, our familyowned businesses, the lives and livelihoods that have gone in all of those institutions. Or we can take this energy and channel it towards building a Better Future. I share the governor and mayor of gratitudeents and extreme appreciation for those of you who honored that gavew, who stayed home and our Law Enforcement professionals an opportunity to work. Now is ahat right moment of deep soulsearching for our community and for our nation should right now for our nation. Right now, we ought to be focused on the fact that george floyd should still be alive today. We ought to be focused on the fact that when someone takes one of our lives in such dramatic especiallye fashion, when it is as welldocumented as George Floyds murder was, that we ought to have some ability to be confident, to be sure that the people responsible, not just one at the four people responsible for his death in a democracy as great as ours, that the four people responsible for his death will of course be held to account. Community we have had a lot of conversations about whether these are insiders or outsiders, whether theyre from in town or out of town. One thing that is clear to me is those folks who would seek to act in a way that during a pandemic would deprive our Senior Citizens of the local pharmacy they need to go to to get their lifesaving medicine, who in the midst of a food shortage would to private would deprive our families of the Grocery Stores they need to go to to feed their children who in the greatest Economic Crises in our history, our workers of the opportunity to go to work and earn a living and to participate in our economy. The one thing that is clear to me is those folks are not driven, those actions are not driven by a sense of deep drive for the betterment of our community. Acknowledge that does not mean there is not real rage. That does not mean there is not real anger. That does not mean our residents are happy with what happened. I do not know a Single Police officer, i do not know a single ceo, lawyer, Accountant Community activist who is happy with what happened. Who is accepting what happened. George floyds killing is unacceptable. It is disturbing by itself. Theombination with all of other people, africanamerican people, africanamerican men who have lost their lives unarmed, ressive,ssive unagg not just over the past decade as camera phones have become the norm but over past decades and generations and centuries in our country. That anger is real. I share it with you. Today, we are asking our community for peace. I want to be very clear. We are not asking you for patience. We are not asking you for pessimism. For pacifism. We are not asking you i am not asking you to sit to the side and patiently wait while we slowly and incrementally stem the bloody tied of africanamerican men killed by Law Enforcement. We are asking you to take that energy which has consumed our country, that energy which is a new clear energy that could either destroy us or bring us together and build us up in a way we have never been together before as a country, we are asking you to take that energy and use it not to destroy our neighborhoods but to destroy the historic culture, but to destroy the systemic racism, to destroy in specific where this is ,oncerned, the Legal Precedents the police union contracts, all of the things that make it so difficult to hold someone accountable when a life like George Floyds is so wrongfully taken. If i had one thing that could stop all of this, that could help ease all of the anger we felt, it would be something in our history, some historic pattern or trend that could make us feel confident and secure. That the officers involved will be held accountable. That we as a nation are using this as a pivot point to chart a new course for our country. Sadly, we do not have the historical fact or the historical trend to show that. Seen thisergy we have week, the passion we have seen this week, the dedication for a better country and a Better Future and a better state and a better city that we have seen this week is that energy, is that tool. We are asking you to channel that energy in a way that builds us, in a way that makes us better, in a way that brings us together. To every Single Person who is frustrated, who is sad, who is angry, who is devastated, who know thisworld to can never happen again, i say we are with you. I thank her Law Enforcement professionals for serving us so valiantly, our firefighters for serving us so violently so violently over the course of the week working in challenging conditions, sometimes with bottles and rocks hurled at them. I know they have to stand as a part of this with us as we build this stronger pack, this stronger social compact in future together. Thank you, mayor. Good morning. I am commissioner of the department of public safety. We set up for a new operational approach yesterday. That the group of writers who had attacked the city of minneapolis and the city of st. Paul and the surrounding burning, salting, robbing and looting, that their numbers were great and that they and a Tactical Advantage over us in the early days of last week. Yesterday, minnesotas chiefs of group police, sheriffs, federal law analysts,t, intel fire and ems, and the Minnesota National guard all came together to take a different approach to how we were going to keep the peace, which i think is the most fundamental job of any cop. I always tell people i do not think of myself as a police officer. I think of myself as a piece officer as a peace officer. We created a different organizational model at the coordination center. We briefed that model and we set throughoutving teams the twin cities area to targets we knew were of high value and high probability of attack. We worked the intel. We worked with the community. I want to emphasize that. We worked with the community to identify where those high valued targets would be. We prepositioned staff so they would be immediately adjacent. We gave this mandate to them. Et there fast speed is of the essence. Stop the violence. Stop the criminal activity. Do not sit back and wait for enough resources to get there to have the perfect plan. Get in and get it done rapidly. That, we set up more traditional mechanisms. Mobile field forces. They are bigger. They are stronger. If you were going to confront a large crowd of committed writers , wed committed rioters needed to make sure we have those resources there. For so terribly grateful general jensens folks because they anchored critical infrastructure, freeing up Law Enforcement, freeing up peace officers, fire and others, to be that Rapid Response force that we needed. Plan was started yesterday at 4 00, roughly. Hrs, or points of contact were in place our points of contact were in place. We were already receiving information. We continued our communications throughout the night. Luminary data is preliminary data is that by 2 00 in the morning, were about 25 arrests on the Hennepin County side in the world about 30 and there were about 30 arrest on the Ramsey County side. It sounds like we have had additional arrests made. Maybe as many as another 40 or 50 arrests. We will get that information for you. Action as the governor outlined to us to safety was going to be protected. We did use the curfew effectively. Rioters toallow the get set up. We kept the rioters moving. He had every opportunity arrested the rioters for violations of curfew. A largeimportantly, number of the arrests we made over