[Video below.] Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Minnesota law prohibits concealed carry without proper identification, addressing the issue during a television appearance following a fatal shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis.
Speaking this week on FOX News’s The Sunday Briefing, Noem emphasized that concealed carry in the state is illegal “without an ID on you.”
Her remarks followed a question from host Peter Doocy, who noted that the man shot and killed by a federal agent during a protest in Minneapolis “was legally a concealed carry permit holder.”
Doocy pressed further, asking, “Is your message to people who [have] concealed carry permits, that if they’re going to go to a protest, they should leave their gun in the car?”
Noem rejected that framing and said the central issue was interference with police activity. “No, my message to individuals is don’t go impede law enforcement operations. That’s not legal, you’re breaking the law when you do that,” she said.
She then returned to the identification requirement, adding, “It’s also breaking the law in Minnesota when you conceal carry without an ID on you.”
The Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend that the man killed in the encounter was armed with a 9mm handgun and had “2 magazines and no ID.”
Minnesota’s statute governing carry permits states: “The holder of a permit to carry must have the permit card and a driver’s license, state identification card, or other government-issued photo identification in immediate possession at all times when carrying a pistol and must display the permit card and identification document upon lawful demand by a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1. ”
Noem concluded by stressing that physical interference with officers is both improper and unlawful. “You shouldn’t be laying hands on law enforcement, and getting in their faces, and trying to stop them from conducting their work. All of that is part of protocol, but it also is the law, and when people are in violation of the law there [are] consequences for that.”
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Secretary Noem:
This point is moot. The guy is dead. He will never be prosecuted of the crime of carrying without ID. And we don’t question that he should be considered a criminal. The question here is the authority of ICE agents is doing their shooting. That is unrelated to the guy’s permit or ID. Did he pull a firearm on the agents, authorizing them to take action, as they did, or not. There are different views from the videos on the scene, as there are of the ramming/shooting incident. I would sway toward the authority of the agents, and I prefer to let the investigations play out.
Better yet, I would welcome an act of Congress that anyone interfering with the conduct of a federal law enforcement officer can be eliminated with lethal force. Sounds radical, but i would welcome that. Might make Iran look like child’s play.
ICE was 100% right for shooting someone who was about to shoot them. They don’t necessarily have to wait to be dead before shooting him.
The point is not “moot”. The point is to to educate the public both about the law and about the lies (by commission and by omission) that the Demcrats are spreading to inflame the public.
Alex Pretti was right……………….dead right.