Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty went on video and told the entire city of Minneapolis that Somali gangs were a lie.
Now a man is dead – shot over a Louis Vuitton bag by a Somali migrant who was already out on bond for carjacking.
The question every Minneapolis resident should be asking is how many more people have to die before someone holds Moriarty accountable.
The Mary Moriarty Video That Didn't Age Long
In December 2025, Moriarty posted a video to social media directly attacking Trump's crackdown on crime in the Minneapolis area.
"There are no roving gangs of Somali people in this community harassing, threatening, doing anything to any of our community members," she said. "Those are simply lies. It is not true."
She repeated it twice – just to make sure everyone heard her.
Three months later, Abdirahman Khayre Khayre, a 20-year-old Somali migrant, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree aggravated robbery for the February 24 shooting death of a man inside the Abbott Apartments in Minneapolis's Stevens Square neighborhood.
Khayre and three other men robbed the victim at gunpoint.
The victim refused to hand over his Louis Vuitton bag.
So they shot him dead.
What Moriarty called a lie had just claimed a life.
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Minneapolis Murder Suspect Was Already Out on Bond for Carjacking
Khayre was not some first-time offender.
He had been arrested in September 2025 for carjacking – cornering a woman near 19th Street and Nicollet Avenue, pointing guns at her, and driving off in her stolen Dodge Challenger.
A judge released him on a $75,000 bond with conditions requiring him to stay law-abiding and away from firearms.
He violated every one of those conditions the night he helped murder a man over a designer bag.
The criminal complaint shows Khayre came prepared.
He left the room multiple times before the attack – stalling, according to witnesses, while the other armed men moved into position.
The group arrived carrying two Glock-style handguns with extended magazines and an AR-style rifle.
They disarmed a witness, handed one of the stolen guns to Khayre, and when the victim refused to give up the bag – they killed him.
Surveillance footage from the building corroborated the witness account, and the witness later identified Khayre in a photo lineup.
He is now in Hennepin County Jail on $1 million bond, with his next court date set for March 9.
How Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Built the Door He Walked Through
Here is the part that should make your blood boil.
Khayre walked free on his carjacking case because Hennepin County's bail and prosecution system – the one Mary Moriarty runs – treats violent repeat offenders like scheduling problems, not threats.
In 2025 she announced her office would stop prosecuting felonies discovered during traffic stops – guns, drugs, fugitives – because she decided those stops were racially unfair.
The Hennepin County Sheriff called it putting criminals first over community safety.
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association called it a gift to criminals.
Victim families staged rallies outside her office after she handed killers plea deals of 18 to 24 months in juvenile facilities – deals finalized, in many cases, without even notifying the victims' families first.
The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into her office after she began requiring prosecutors to factor race into plea negotiations.
Every one of those decisions sent the same message to every criminal in Minneapolis: this city won't come for you hard, and when they do catch you, they'll let you go.
Khayre heard that message.
He acted on it.
And a man who refused to give up his bag is dead because of it.
The welfare fraud backdrop makes this even more enraging.
While Moriarty was on video calling Trump a liar, the DOJ had already charged 98 defendants – 85 of Somali descent – in connection with a $9 billion looting scheme that gutted programs meant to feed children and house disabled seniors.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew to Minneapolis personally to announce a federal crackdown, stating that under Tim Walz, billions had been funneled directly to Somali fraud rings.
Independent journalists Nick Sortor and Cam Higby were physically attacked by mobs while covering the crackdown – Sortor had his camera stolen on one occasion.
Moriarty watched all of it and went on camera anyway to tell Minneapolis residents the danger wasn't real.
She wasn't uninformed.
She was lying – and the man who died in that apartment paid the price for her lie.
Sources:
- Harold Hutchison, "Minneapolis' Top Prosecutor Claimed Somalis Weren't in 'Roving Gangs' – Here's How It Aged," Daily Caller News Foundation, March 3, 2026.
- "Man killed over Louis Vuitton bag, suspect was on bond for suspected carjacking, charges say," FOX 9, March 1, 2026.
- "Charges: Man killed during Minneapolis robbery after he wouldn't give up Louis Vuitton bag," KSTP, March 3, 2026.
- "Man on Conditional Release Now Charged in Minneapolis Murder," MNCrime.com, March 1, 2026.
- "Here's What the Trump Administration Is Doing to Crush Minnesota's Fraud Epidemic," WhiteHouse.gov, January 3, 2026.
- "Secretary Bessent Announces Initiatives to Combat Rampant Fraud in Minnesota," U.S. Department of the Treasury, February 27, 2026.
- "Somali Welfare Fraud in Minnesota Has Cost American Taxpayers Billions," Heritage Foundation, 2026.
- "'Deeply troubling': Law enforcement reacts to Moriarty decision limiting felony prosecutions," Alpha News, September 22, 2025.
