Emily Witt

It's such a small target for such a large operation.

I think the biggest impact is the local law enforcement element.

This is a city where there's a police force of about 600 officers, so 600 officers to 3,000 federal agents.

You already have a city where people feel that there's still trauma between the local law enforcement and protesters and the constituents of Minneapolis.

And now...

that local law enforcement force is sort of the first line of defense in a lot of their eyes against this federal occupation.

So it's complicated.

Like, I've seen at these protests a lot of sort of anger erupting between protesters and local law enforcement.

And at the same time, the city is asking, like, how can we build empathy for our police force?

Because they're also in this impossible situation.

Well, it's an unapologetically really progressive leftist city.

And it's, you know, you've seen from the politicians that Minnesota sent to the national stage, even going back to Paul Wellstone, people like that.

You know, it's a place that really values democracy.

progressive ideals and that isn't scared to be ambitious and in its kind of social goals.

And the people here are really civic minded.

They really people are in block associations.

They're in community organizations.

The city loves its parks.

It's kind of almost like obsessed with its own community minded practices.

And