Christopher Kahn

On Friday, there's just the day before Alex Preddy was shot, there was an economic boycott statewide, and that had children leaving school, people staying home from work, businesses closed across Minneapolis.

And you had thousands, again, marching in the streets.

And so then after the shooting, there's been another surge of protests in the Twin Cities.

Tim Walz deployed at least 1,500 National Guard troops to assist.

And so in the last three days or so, we've seen more marches, more demonstrations.

And while most have been peaceful, there has been tear gas and pepper spray deployed to disperse these crowds.

On Sunday night, there was a group of protesters that had gathered outside a hotel where federal agents were believed to be sleeping.

They held a rally there, kind of banging pots and pans, and eventually skirmishes broke out.

Protesters had smashed windows, attacked the building with graffiti, reading ICE out, but

The scene was eventually cleared, and there was no arrests, according to state officials.

So, attendance of these protests and Minneapolis residents across the city say that they're afraid that more shootings will happen if federal agents don't leave their city.

There's been widespread reports alleging people being stopped because of racial profiling.

Those reports even came from police chiefs in the Minneapolis area who said that their off-duty officers had been targeted.

There's been also reports of federal agents entering homes without judicial warrants and instances of them detaining U.S.

citizens for hours at a time.

So all of these things combined, along with, of course, those two deadly shootings, has really stirred fear among residents in the Twin Cities.

But people are still coming out in droves, even amid freezing temperatures, sometimes below zero.

Democrats have come out against ICE and Border Patrol and have vowed not to fund their parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.

And this is a big deal because both parties, in order to avoid a government shutdown, have to pass a funding measure that currently includes $64 billion for the Department of Homeland Security.

And $10 million of that will go directly to ICE.