Inside Mayor Jacob Frey’s Fight For Minneapolis

Jacob Frey had just helped his 5-year-old daughter into her ballet slippers at dance class when Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara called. Federal agents had shot someone, O’Hara told the mayor: “It was bad.”

It was Saturday morning, Jan. 24. A few miles away, an ICU nurse named Alex Pretti had been shot to death across from a doughnut shop on Nicollet Avenue, the second American citizen in three weeks killed by federal agents in this city under siege. Frey rushed for his coat, arranged...