Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says the state must be “very vigilant” and “defend democracy” as the F-B-I reports credible threats of violence Sunday at the State Capitol. Governor Tim Walz is visiting historical monuments in Minnesota over the next three days, calling for calm, civility and peace. This afternoon at the Minnesota History Center in Saint Paul he noted, “What happened last week, what is still happening today as you see state capitols being boarded up, you see fences going up, you see talk a presidential inauguration unlike any other.”
An FBI Minneapolis report says some followers of the violent Boogaloo group attended protests in early December at the Minnesota State Capitol “to identify escape points and defensible positions if violence occurred.” The FBI report says the Boogaloo movement was not planning an attack, but was planning “to use violence” should fighting occur Sunday.