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I’m proud to be right here to signify Crew USA and to signify our nation. However we’d be remiss if we didn’t no less than point out what’s happening in Minnesota and what a troublesome time it’s been for everyone. These items is going on proper, proper round the place we reside.
I’m a lawyer, as you already know, and we now have a structure, and it permits us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we now have to have possible trigger to be pulled over. And what’s occurring in Minnesota is incorrect. There’s no shades of grey. It’s clear.
— Rich Ruohonen, a Minnesota lawyer on the curling staff for Crew USA on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in feedback given during a press conference in Italy, in regards to the surprising occasions occurring in his residence state, the place Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers shot and killed two U.S. civilians, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Ruohonen is certainly one of six Minnesotans on the U.S. Olympic curling staff, and he’s hoping to make history because the oldest-ever U.S. athlete to compete within the Olympics.
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