A month ago, the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, held an extraordinary press conference where he accused federal immigration officers of racially profiling and harassing residents of the Twin Cities suburb, including one of his own officers.
At a January 20 press conference, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley, along with two other local law enforcement leaders, complained that federal immigration agents were stopping residents without cause and demanding they show paperwork proving they were in the country legally. They even stopped an off-duty Brooklyn Park police officer.
