Andy Kim

And I looked across the field there, and I said, like, you cannot just simply plow your vehicles through a crowd of civilians.

Like, you have to try to figure out, you know, how we can try to do this without the violence.

And look, I was trying to see if there's any arrangement, but again, it shouldn't be just on me.

When it comes to de-escalation, what role are their officers supposed to play?

And that's what I think was so alarming, John, is like...

There was just, at some point, just a feeling of inevitable violence.

And it was just so jarring to me.

The ease with which ICE just went out and drove their vehicles literally through a crowd, just not even putting effort to try to avoid that circumstance.

it shouldn't be that easy to have violence in the streets of America.

Like, it shouldn't be that easy for federal agents that are supposed to swear the same oath that I swear about protecting and defending the Constitution and supporting the American people to find themselves in a circumstance.

So it's just like, you know, I saw this unfold and immediately, you know, my instinct was to run

run into it and try to put myself between the ice agents and the crowd.

I was trying to keep that physical separation because that is where we saw so much of the, of the violence escalate in Minnesota.

If I could at least keep them physically separated, you know, perhaps we could avoid the worst, but it was, it was, it was, it was so jarring.

It was, it was really scary just to see that type of violence escalate

in my state, frankly, anywhere in the country.

And to know that, you know, this is still, could very well be, you know, a problem that we see continue in my state and elsewhere.

Well, first of all, just again, I saw what I saw.

I talked to the people.

There is a hunger strike going on inside and a larger protest.