Christopher Cann

And this all comes as the state is facing a lot of pressure regarding a fraud scandal in Minnesota.

And one of those prosecutors who resigned was Joe Thompson.

He was the acting U.S.

attorney for Minnesota.

He had been appointed by Trump, and he had led the probe that uncovered a lot of fraud within 14 state-run Medicaid programs.

Yeah.

So as you mentioned, the shooting of Good happened less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed in 2020.

And as you remember, in that case as well, it was a video of that incident that had shocked the nation, sparked large scale protests in cities across the country.

And there was a kind of a national reckoning with police brutality and use of force.

And so we have another deadly law enforcement interaction happening.

That's, again, shocked people, fueled this upswell of activism and protests there.

So you have a lot of people who've, you know, lived to that time and are currently protesting now or not.

And thinking back, and this kind of has re-traumatized them, has kind of brought them back into that headspace maybe that they were in, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

So we're seeing, of course, these large protests in Minneapolis.

They've not been, at least so far, to the scale of the ones in the wake of George Floyd, at least as far as the unrest and scenes of vandalism and things like that.

They've been kind of, activists there have talked about it being much more controlled.

So you'll have these large protests maybe outside a federal building in Minneapolis, but then there'll be also protests

demonstrators or what they call legal advisors following ICE and DHS agents around the city, blowing whistles, honking horns to notify people in the area that ICE is there, also recording on their phones and cataloging what's happened.

So you have kind of roving demonstrations, you know, along with the more stationary ones.

So many Minnesota residents say that, you know, while they feel exhausted, they still feel that they must go out and protest, decry what's happening.