Minneapolis City Mayor Jacob Frey has pushed back on a suggestion made by DHS head Kristi Noem regarding designated protest areas. Frey rejected the idea, saying that people's right to free speech should not be limited to specific areas amidst ongoing protests by residents against federal officers.
Frey appeared on CBS Face the Nation, where he was asked about Noem's comments on potentially assigning certain places as protest areas. Noem appeared earlier on the programme and suggested that a specific area could be assigned as a peaceful protest zone for Minneapolis residents to exercise their freedom of speech. 'First Amendment speech is not limited to one park or one section of the city,' Frey said. 'You are allowed to protest, so long as you're doing it peacefully. And by the way, we've got tens of thousands of people in Minneapolis that are grinning down the bear, that are peacefully expressing their First Amendment rights. So no, you can't have just one section of the city'.
