Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is applauding students and staff at Roosevelt High School for standing up for freedom and America, and subtly hinted that he may once again be interested in running for the state’s top office.
“I did one term. I am owed a second,” he told reporters on Jan. 8. “I was leading a nice quiet life. You’ve injected me back into this and will probably make me the governor of Minnesota.”
Ventura spoke with TV reporters when he stopped by Roosevelt, his alma mater, in the wake of recent events that included an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman on Jan. 7, and detaining a Minneapolis Public Schools employee at Roosevelt later that day.
The chaos at Roosevelt captured on video appeared to show a confrontation on school property as classes dismissed for the day with ICE agents deploying tear gas at the scene.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement no tear gas was used but officers used “targeted crowd control.”
Ventura, a 1969 graduate of the school, said he did not see the video, but paid a visit to the south Minneapolis high school to show his support.
“I am proud of what they did in keeping ICE off this campus,” Ventura said. “We don’t need federal troops coming in here without warrants. Good for these people that stood up. They are teaching students that we have to be a country of law and a country of the Constitution. Go Teddies.”
Ventura called the killing of Renee Good a “tragedy” and did not hold back, warning that the United States is fast becoming a third-world country where the military does police work in cities.
