Chris Madel, a Minneapolis lawyer who represented the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good, said Monday that he was ending his Republican campaign for governor of Minnesota after a second protester was killed by federal authorities.

“I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state,” Madel said in a video message he posted on social media, “nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

Madel, who has never held elected office, launched his candidacy in December as a political outsider and a fierce defender of law enforcement. One of nearly a dozen candidates in the Republican primary for governor, Madel had been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.

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    Only way that could happen would be if this guy stayed in the race and ran as an independent, which is what he is not doing and I believe is what the other commenter is saying he should have done instead

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      If so I will admit being mistaken here.

      Still though I honestly don’t feel worried about a Pro-ICE candidate winning the Minnesota governorship (possibly across the board but I don’t have that deep of a knowledge.)