During an interview with NewsNation, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey addressed the murder of two Catholic school children by a transgender mass shooter.

While Frey was quick to insist that the killer's identity isn't important, earlier comments from the Democratic mayor cast doubt on his sincerity. 

Mayor weighs in with controversial remarks

"Look, villainize the person that committed this horrific act. It was cowardice. It was evil. There should be no dispute there," Breitbart quoted Frey as telling NewsNation host Elizabeth Vargas.

"But anybody that is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community has lost sight with a sense of common humanity," Frey declared.

"Operate not out of hate for any community out there, any community, operate out of love for our children," he continued.

"And when we love our children, we make the necessary change so that something like this doesn’t happen again and it’s not just lip service," the mayor stressed.

"We’ve got to stop making this about groups"

When Vargas referenced a New York Post report that the shooter wished he had not been "brain-washed" into being transgender, Frey responded with "I can’t speak to what is in a different individual’s brain or mind.

"Obviously, we love our trans community. They’re suffering. We love our Catholic community. They’re suffering. There was just [fire opened] on a church and we need to be doing everything possible to [be] supporting them," Frey stated.

"We’ve got to stop making this about groups of people every single time one of these things goes down," the mayor insisted.

"We’ve got to stop having the conclusion that we each want to arrive at and then reverse-engineering the facts to meet the conclusion that we’ve already determined," he concluded.

Hypocrisy noted

That Frey would be averse to "making this about groups of people" is odd, given the mayor's own history of public comments following tragic events.

Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the mayor went out of his way to highlight the race of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Video of my full remarks from earlier this morning.

"Being Black in America should not be a death sentence.

For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck. Five minutes.

This officer failed in the most basic, human sense." https://t.co/4cfPkSsf1A

— Jacob Frey (@Jacob_Frey) May 26, 2020

"For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck. Five minutes," Frey declared. "This officer failed in the most basic, human sense."