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I’m proud to be here to represent Team USA and to represent our country. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention what’s going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it’s been for everybody. This stuff is happening right, right around where we live.
I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution, and it allows us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. And what’s happening in Minnesota is wrong. There’s no shades of gray. It’s clear.
— Rich Ruohonen, a Minnesota lawyer on the curling team for Team USA at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in comments given during a press conference in Italy, concerning the shocking events happening in his home state, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed two U.S. civilians, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Ruohonen is one of six Minnesotans on the U.S. Olympic curling team, and he’s hoping to make history as the oldest-ever U.S. athlete to compete in the Olympics.
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