A conversation on X continued
There was a spirited discussion last evening on X about the Hennepin County Attorney race. I am very pro-Cedrick Fraizer; there were others in the discussion who were pro-Folk, some of them rather spittle-flecked. Now Tommy wasn’t spittle-flecked; he’s a friend. I am going to pick out one of his tweets posts, though, to get this story going.
My two questions to him were about Veterans Court and prosecuting federal thugs that abused their positions and the citizens they were supposed to serve.
He was clear on both and earned my support.
Obviously, your mileage differs. Oh well; I’m happy with whomever wins.
— Tommy Johnson (@TwoPuttTommy) September 10, 2026
Just prior to this post, Tommy posted a Google AI response to Tommy’s query about whether Folk would charge federal law enforcement officers. You can click on the post above and read the whole thread.
There were a lot of people on the thread who would be happy Folk won, or if Fraizer won, but not either. Tommy was really one of the more ecumenical commentators.
Tommy’s always been interested in veterans issues; Folk is a veteran, and that makes him one of Tommy’s tin gods. There are a lot of people who aren’t veterans, too, like Renee Good and Alex Pretti, although Pretti worked at the VA hospital in Minneapolis caring for veterans.
I hold the Goods- and Prettis-in-waiting (people who have not been shot by the thugs and Orcs at ICE/CBP but may or will be) up as every bit as valuable as the veterans.
Tommy’s Google AI may have confidence in Anders Folk; AI is always so full of itself; often wrong but never in doubt. If you listen to or read carefully to Folk’s answers to questions about this, though, they are always hedged in terms of we should investigate, blah, blah, blah. His statements are lawyerly, a language I understand well.
I don’t think he ordinarily brings the subject up by himself.
Folk doesn’t even say unequivocally he would charge the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti: the killer who shot the pacific Renee Good while he filmed the event, snuff film style, or the killers of Alex Pretti who shot Alex in the back of the head while he was trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground by a CBP thug.
One the other hand, Cedrick Fraizer is clear about charging federal LEOs for crimes against Minnesotans. Crystal clear.
The difference here is not merely stylistic. We have all seen so many citizen videos of Good and Pretti’s killing that it is impossible to coclude they weren’t murdered.
A strong, stated policy of bringing federal officers who commit felonies against Minnesotans to justice is important as well as a strong purgative for federal officers who listen to Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Markwayne Mullin too much.
In an op-ed in the Minnesota Reformer, managing editor Patrick Coolican said this in dismissing the candidacy of another candidate for a law enforcement position: Ron Schutz for attorney general:
The most pressing issue for the next Minnesota attorney general will be the ongoing fight to force the Trump administration to govern by the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.
This was the lede of the piece. The statement is just as servicable if you substitute “Hennepin County Attorney” for “attorney general.”
It is not just ICE/CBP agents we need to worry about. It’s also the obstructors of justice protecting these agents when they commit crimes. You will recall that the FBI and the United States Attorney gathered up the evidence at the Good and Pretti crime scenes, barred local law enforcement from access to the evidence, and then set out to invesitage Renee Good’s wife, not her killer or the killers of Alex Pretti. Mary Moriarty and Keith Ellison sued to get access to the evidence, have gotten some, but the federal government is still dragging its feet.
What if the FBI/USA just refuse in the end to deliver key evidence to state law enforcement that prevents the prosecution of these killers? What if federal agents prohibited the arrest of Christian Castro on state assault charges when he is in Minnesota for court proeedings on his federal fibbing rap? ICE/CBP has no trouble arresting people in courthouses. Turnabout is fair play.
It would be a really ugly federalism/constitutional law crisis situation, but perhaps persons in the FBI and maybe even the USA’s office, would have to be charged with the crime of obstruction of justice under state law. Here’s the operative language of Minn. Stat. § 609.50 (2025):
Subdivision 1.Crime.
Whoever intentionally does any of the following may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 2:
(1) obstructs, hinders, or prevents the lawful execution of any legal process, civil or criminal, or apprehension of another on a charge or conviction of a criminal offense;
(2) obstructs, resists, or interferes with a peace officer while the officer is engaged in the performance of official duties;
Section 2 provides a sliding scale of penalties.
Anders Folk is “conflicted out” in a prosecution like this. He worked with people in the USA’s office and the FBI and DHS. He probably went out for beer after work with them. Maybe he still does.
If you were injured in an accident, you wouldn’t hire a lawyer if you knew the lawyer was friends with the defendant.
If an obstruction charge became the last resort to obtain evidence, can we depend on Anders Folk to file it?
Be serious.
Would Cedrick Fraizer?
Count on it.
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