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Minneapolis police chief issues apology for linking Somali youth to local crime
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologized to the Somali community for a comment he made connecting «East African kids» to crime.
«The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me, and I appreciate it,» O’Hara said at a news conference on Thursday. «Over the last three years we have been working together to try and address some of the real serious problems that we have in our community.»
«We have to be honest at times with the problems that we’re having in our community, and we need our community to help us fix those problems together because it’s real and it’s serious. At the same time, if people have taken anything that i have said out of context in a way that’s caused harm, I apologize, and I’m sorry for that because that’s not my intention at all,» O’Hara added.
In an interview with WCCO earlier this month, O’Hara was speaking about a deadly Halloween shooting as well as juvenile crime plaguing the city when he made the comment. Alpha News reported that the Dinkytown area, where the shooting took place, has seen a series of crimes including assaults, robberies, shootings and auto thefts.
TRUMP TERMINATES DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR SOMALI NATIONALS LIVING IN MINNESOTA ‘EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY’
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks during a press conference regarding the Annunciation Church shooting in Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 28, 2025. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
During the interview, he stated that the young people committing the crimes were not «poor kids from Minneapolis,» but rather kids that come from out of town who take «mommy’s Mercedes-Benz to Dinkytown, and they don’t know where they are.»
«Groups of kids, groups of East African kids that are coming from surrounding communities and not just one community, kind of all over the place,» O’Hara told WCCO.
After the interview, a petition on Change.org demanded an apology from O’Hara, saying that the East African community of Minneapolis «has already been carrying the weight of unfair scrutiny for years» and that the chief’s comment would «deepen that burden.»
The Minneapolis Somali community has faced scrutiny on a national level in recent days after a bombshell report revealed a series of alleged financial schemes that ended with terrorists getting taxpayer dollars. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute found that Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist organization in Somalia, was receiving funds that could be traced back to Minnesota.
«Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,» a former official who worked on the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force told Thorpe and Rufo.
Women walk along a tree-lined street in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, home to one of the largest Somali communities in the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
Following the report, President Donald Trump announced he was ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota.
The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a country for TPS if nationals cannot return safely or if the country «is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.» Countries currently under TPS are Burma, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen.
«Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately the Temporary Protected Status (TPS program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!,» Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Rufo, one of the authors of the bombshell report, said Trump’s announcement was a «great start» but that there is still more work to do.
«Canceling TPS for Minnesota Somalis is a great start. Next: review all asylum, refugee, and citizenship applications for any hint of fraud or technical error; then initiate denaturalizations and mass deportations up to the furthest limits of the law. They have to go home,» Rufo wrote on X.
Women walk along a tree-lined street in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, home to one of the largest Somali communities in the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
MINNESOTA TAXPAYER DOLLARS FUNNELED TO AL-SHABAAB TERROR GROUP, REPORT ALLEGES
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn, who praised Trump’s decision, wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen demanding an investigation. The letter was also signed by Emmer’s fellow Minnesota Republicans, Rep. Pete Stauber, Rep. Michelle Fischbach, and Rep. Brad Finstad.
«It is alleged that Minnesota’s Somali community, the largest in the nation, has been sending millions back to Somalia via the hawala network, an informal money trafficking network which is notorious for funds ending up in terrorist networks, and in this instance, Al-Shabaab,» the letter reads.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a press conference with members of the Republican Study Committee and other members of House Republican leadership, on the 28th day of the government shutdown in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The lawmakers cited the various cases involving members of the Somali community, including the Feeding our Future fraud scheme, fraud in the Housing Stabilization Services program, Child Care Assistance program and Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
«It is bad enough that these individuals are defrauding our state, taking services and funds away from children and the most vulnerable, but now there is a good reason to believe that Minnesota taxpayer dollars are going straight into terrorists’ hands. These new allegations present not only a serious betrayal of taxpayer trust, but also a grave threat to our national security,» the letter states.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Walz’s office for comment.
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La clave biológica que convierte a los loros en los grandes imitadores del reino animal
Los loros sorprenden por su habilidad para imitar el habla humana, un fenómeno que intriga tanto a aficionados como a expertos. Un equipo internacional de científicos, liderado por la Universidad de Duke y citado por National Geographic, identificó la base cerebral que explica esta destreza y detalla cómo su estructura cerebral los diferencia de otras especies animales.
La comunicación animal abarca una gran variedad de sonidos —desde ladridos hasta cantos—, pero la reproducción espontánea de palabras y frases completas es extremadamente rara. Solo los humanos y muy pocas especies, como los loros, demuestran un dominio notable de la imitación del habla. Estas aves no solo copian sonidos, sino que pueden incorporar fragmentos completos de lenguas humanas a su repertorio.
El comportamiento espontáneo de los loros incluye la imitación de sonidos ambientales y vocalizaciones humanas. Como ejemplo, se observó periquitos Finsch en Costa Rica intercambiando “saludos” audibles. Este fenómeno captó la atención de la ciencia, que busca descifrar por qué estas aves muestran tanta afinidad por la imitación.
La investigación publicada en la revista Plos One y reseñada por National Geographic revela que la clave reside en características particulares del cerebro de los loros. A diferencia de pájaros cantores y colibríes, estas aves presentan una estructura denominada caparazón, exclusiva de su morfología cerebral.
La presencia del caparazón significa que los loros cuentan con áreas cerebrales adicionales que potencian la recogida y el procesamiento de información sonora. Esta estructura agrega complejidad, permitiendo un grado superior de reconocimiento, decodificación y reproducción de sonidos. Dichas diferencias, según el equipo de la Universidad de Duke, explican la capacidad única de estas aves para imitar tanto palabras como patrones melódicos complejos, algo que excede las habilidades de otras especies.
El caparazón es señalado como el centro que brinda a los loros una versatilidad sobresaliente en la imitación vocal, posicionándolos como los animales no humanos más hábiles para esta tarea.
Según científicos, la imitación en los loros no depende solo de áreas cerebrales especializadas. La interacción entre el sistema auditivo y el sistema motor resulta fundamental. Estas aves logran procesar los sonidos con gran precisión y los integran, mediante movimientos musculares y respiratorios muy coordinados.
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Este mecanismo biológico convierte la información auditiva en acciones vocales concretas. La sintonía entre oído y músculo permite reproducir palabras, melodías y hasta sonidos ambientales con una fidelidad difícil de igualar. Así, la combinación entre un cerebro especializado y un sistema motor adaptado distingue a los loros entre el resto del reino animal.
Pese a la sofisticación interna, los expertos aclaran que no se hallaron adaptaciones anatómicas adicionales, como articulaciones u órganos vocales extra. No hay pruebas de que los loros cuenten con estructuras físicas distintas en su aparato vocal que expliquen su capacidad.
La singularidad de los loros radica exclusivamente en su estructura cerebral compleja y en la eficaz integración de sus sentidos. Su asombroso talento para la imitación del habla sigue siendo, por ahora, una consecuencia directa de su biología interna y no de mecanismos físicos ocultos.
Además, los estudios comparativos entre especies de loros revelan que el tamaño relativo del caparazón varía de acuerdo con la destreza imitativa de cada grupo. Especies conocidas por su gran capacidad para reproducir sonidos humanos, como el loro gris africano y el loro amazónico, presentan un caparazón más desarrollado que otros loros menos hábiles en la imitación. Este hallazgo sugiere una relación directa entre la extensión de esta estructura cerebral y el repertorio vocal disponible para cada ave, aportando nuevas pistas sobre la evolución de la comunicación compleja en el reino animal.
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Dem governor under fire after illegal alien allegedly stabs woman to death at bus stop: ‘Heinous’
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is calling on Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to ensure local law enforcement cooperates with federal immigration officials by handing over an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who allegedly killed a woman earlier this week at a Virginia bus stop.
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone earlier this week on charges of second-degree murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed a woman, Stephanie Minter, 41, who was found dead at a local bus stop with several wounds to the upper body.
The alleged suspect, Abdul Jalloh, 32, also has a criminal history of more than 30 arrests, according to DHS, including for rape, malicious wounding, assault, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault and pick-pocketing.
The request from the Trump administration comes after the newly elected Democratic governor of Virginia signed an executive order to end cooperation between federal immigration officials and state and local law enforcement, a move several Democratic Party governors have taken recently amid President Donald Trump’s move to increase deportation operations around the country.
The DHS request asking Virginia officials to cooperate with ICE also comes after an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered someone just days after being released from jail for a separate crime in December.
Abdul Jalloh, 32, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger (Department of Homeland Security/Getty Images)
«We are calling on Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Virginia’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this murderer and violent career criminal from their jail without notifying ICE,» said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
«This illegal alien’s murder of an innocent, beautiful American woman came less than 24 hours before Governor Spanberger’s demonization of ICE law enforcement. This heinous criminal is a perfect example of why we need cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions and the importance of third country removals for the safety of the American people.»
Spanberger’s representatives did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Jalloh entered the United States illegally in 2012, according to DHS, and immigration officials lodged an immigration detainer against him in 2020, whereupon he was granted a final order of removal by a judge who said he could be removed to any country other than Sierra Leone.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH PRIOR DEPORTATION SHOOTS DEPUTY IN CHEST, DIES AFTER EXCHANGE: DHS
Protesters, using whistles to alert neighborhoods to ICE activity, face off with Minneapolis police officers in Minneapolis Jan. 24, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
DHS indicated that ICE cooperation to ensure Jalloh’s deportation is evident after a case Fox News covered in December when a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, allegedly killed a man just a day after Fairfax County jail officials let him go.
The immigrant from El Salvador had been in custody on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing a gun, but police released him after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, led by George Soros-backed prosecutor Steve Descano, dropped the charges.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Fairfax County Sheriff’s office to inquire about why the man had not been handed over to ICE.
The sheriff’s office said, «ICE was aware of Morales-Ortez’s incarceration and elected not to seek a judicial warrant to ensure he remained in custody.
Marvin Morales-Ortez, who is living in the country illegally, was released from Fairfax County custody and then allegedly committed a murder the next day. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)
«The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state and federal laws when determining whether a person is subject to release from the ADC,» the sheriff’s office told Fox News Digital at the time. «Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified any time a person is booked into the ADC.»
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The same sheriff’s office did not get back to Fox News Digital’s media inquiry for this story on DHS urging officials to cooperate with federal officials.
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