President Donald Trump is now taking credit for the immediate withdrawal of 700 federal agents in Minnesota amid his administration’s increasingly unpopular Operation Metro Surge.
Local officials were quick to criticize the move on Wednesday as too little too late, following the killings of two Minneapolis residents by agents in January and countless unlawful detainments.
Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and others say they’ll keep pushing for a complete end to the crackdown, currently in its third month and involving around 2,000 agents…