Frey, 44, is in his third term as mayor of Minneapolis, a tenure marked by an almost unfathomable series of tragedies. Two years after he took office, COVID crippled the city’s downtown. Then came George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis cop, catalyzing protests and riots, a painful fight over police reform, and a depletion in the department’s ranks. Last June, two Democratic state legislators in the Minneapolis suburbs were shot along with their spouses in what authorities called an act of targeted political violence. In August, two children were killed and more than two dozen others were injured in a shooting at a school Mass at the city’s Annunciation Catholic Church. The current Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation was preceded by a scandal involving the defrauding of social-service programs. That put the city under the MAGA movement’s microscope, which many, including Frey, believe figured in the Trump Administration’s decision to make Minneapolis the focus of the largest federal immigration-enforcement deployment in American history.