Charles Homans

And there are certainly people who are broadly supportive of removing undocumented immigrants with criminal records from the streets here as elsewhere.

You don't hear those people talking vocally in Minneapolis right now.

I think because the crackdown itself has so visibly been sweeping up a pretty wide range of people beyond the stated targets of it, that has contributed to a sense of real embattlement in Minneapolis itself.

I think that it made this much more direct and personal for a lot of the people who are involved in the response, many of whom are white liberals from these sort of South Minneapolis neighborhoods that have been most galvanized by what's happened.

And it's a city that has a long history of somewhat impersonal

liberal activism on things like civil rights by kind of white liberals who don't necessarily have a ton of skin in the game themselves or particularly direct relationships or even interactions with people of color here.

And I do think that the shooting of Renee Good changed that in a way.

And I've heard this from both people who are involved in the activism here and also some of the people who are immigrants who are targets of these raids.

They recognize that something really shifted with the shooting.

That, I think, is really the big unanswered question, and you hear it from people a lot.

Like, there's a sense that something really profoundly different is happening here, that we're sort of off the map of prior experience.

When I was in L.A.

in June when this was happening there, there was certainly a sense that

oh, you know, these agents are actually kind of making a lot of just very opportunistic arrests.

They're not necessarily targeting people they know have criminal records.

They are looking for a landscaping truck and then just grabbing everybody on the landscaping truck and seeing who they have.

And so there was a very palpable sense there that anybody could

be a target who was an immigrant or even ethnically Latino or otherwise not white.

I think that what is different in Minneapolis is that there is a more pervasive sense that not just could anybody in those categories be a target, but that there's a good chance that those people will be a target.

Because it's a small city, non-white people here tend to be very visible because it is a heavily white city.