Officials blame outsiders for violence in Minnesota but contradict one another on who is responsible

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2. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey...

.... suggested that far-right white supremacists and perhaps organized drug cartels were chiefly responsible.

“We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out-of-state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region,” he said.

Walz suggested that U.S. intelligence agencies were providing the state with information about who was behind the protests, implying that the National Security Agency, which monitors foreign governments and terrorist organizations, might be playing a role.

U.S. officials dismissed those claims, noting that, by law, the NSA does not monitor domestic political activities.