For more than two months, Minneapolis has been an occupied city. Masked federal agents in tactical gear flooded our neighborhoods and outnumbered our police officers on the streets. Parents stopped taking their children to school. Businesses closed their doors. People were afraid to go to the grocery store, afraid to walk their dogs, afraid to exist in their own community.
Then the violence began.
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Three weeks later, Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was filming federal agents with his phone and directing traffic when he stepped between an agent and a woman the agent had pushed to the ground. He was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by multiple agents and shot 10 times. Both were U.S. citizens. Both died in their own neighborhoods at the hands of their own government…