The MAGA xenophobia and racism blame Somali immigrants for the Minnesota fraud case. But it's "one of them", a US-Born White woman by the name of Amiee Bock who is the ringleader behind the fraud and she was put in jail by President Biden. But white supremacist hatred overrides facts.
Aimee Bock, Founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future arrives at the Minneapolis federal courthouse on March 19 in Minneapolis.
Kerem Yücel | MPR News file
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Fox Contributor Reminds Colleagues Minnesota Fraud Ringleader Is a ‘White Woman’ Who Is ‘Already in Prison’
Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pushed back on the narrative surrounding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and the alleged billions of dollars taken by fraudsters in the state that many on the right blame on Somali immigrants. Marshall joined her fellow Outnumbered panelists on Tuesday to discuss the topic, but used her time to offer some historical context on the scandal.
“Well, I looked at what he [Walz] could be doing. I looked at what he is doing,” Marshall said to her fellow panelists, who were accusing Walz of not doing enough.
“One of the things that ties his hands is this very legislature that is trying to get him to resign. Interestingly, they’re not asking for a recall. So when they say the people of Minnesota don’t want him, well, put it to a recall. Let the people in Minnesota decide,” Marshall argued, adding:
Todd, love you. Google—if you Google, actually, local Minnesota news outlets have been reporting on this for years. Speaking of years, during the Biden administration, there were 59 people convicted so far. The ringleader is not Somalian. She’s a white woman named Aimee Bock. She was found guilty on all seven counts that were brought against her. So there are people that are already in prison. And remember, some of these are not DHS or federal-related facilities. Some of these facilities were closed down for other reasons, not even fraud.
But back to your question about Tim Walz: He asked the legislature in his state to give him more authority so that he could do more, and they said no. One, two—he also has closed a number of these centers already, and not just for fraud. They were investigating them for everything else. One, for example, on that video that went out—not the one from years ago, the one just recently—they were already closed because they were a bad daycare center. There was no fraud. They were just not doing a good job of the daycare.
He hired outside firms to audit the payments to these organizations. He shut down the housing stabilization entirely, that department entirely. He has hired an overseer for this specifically, and he continues to try and get more. And I don’t think, honestly, I don’t think he should resign. I don’t think he’s going to resign. I do think it’s political, and Republicans say it’s not. One, it’s Republicans asking for him to resign, and two, he’s less than a year from re-election, and this is definitely gonna put a ding and a chink in his armor as he runs.
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ESCALATING racism against Somali-American immigrants - The beautiful ugliness of white America.
Screenshot:Ashwaubenon Dept. of Public Safety/TMZ
Body cam footage of a police officer speaking to the employee shows her claiming that the Somali couple, whom she called the N-word, was threatening her.
The Cinnabon employee who was fired after berating Somali customers on camera told a police officer that she was the one who was being harassed, not the other way around.
But TMZ obtained body camera footage from the cop who confronted the employee after the incident took place, which shows her telling him that the couple “treated me like sh*t first.”
“They came here and harassed me,” she said. “I have PTSD; they knew exactly that I was ill. It’s not the first time, [this is] not the second time. Don’t try to come at me when they’re threatening me.”
The officer then asked how she was threatened by the customers, to which she responded, “I don’t know, they started threatening me. I have no idea.”
Earlier this month, a video went viral on social media of a Somali couple, a husband and wife, visiting a Cinnabon at a mall in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. According to the person who posted the original video, who claimed to be a cousin of the wife, the exchange that started with the couple asking the Cinnabon employee for more caramel ended in a back-and-forth between the two parties. Per the caption, the couple began recording after the employee, who is white, called the wife’s hijab a “witchcraft bandana.”
The employee called the couple the N-word and proclaimed, “I am racist, and I’ll say that to the whole entire world,” to the camera.
The timing of the video was especially poignant as President Donald Trump had recently made statements attacking Somali people and saying he doesn’t want them in the country.
The release of the latest footage shows that the Cinnabon employee claimed she was the victim, even calling the entire situation a “set up.”
The officer reacted by saying that she could either cooperate and give her side of the story or she would be arrested for disorderly conduct. She complies and shares that her name is Crystal (her full name is censored).
Ultimately, the footage shows that Crystal did not share her full perspective with the officer, instead saying that two other girls had harassed her before the couple came to the store, but could not explain the connection between the separate customers. She also accuses the officer of being sent by someone named “Tom,” to which the officer replies with confusion.
After the exchange proves to be fruitless, she says that she will call a lawyer, and the officer tells her she has that right. Then he walks away and says he is coming back.
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