Emily Witt
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No.
I mean, I think one thing is Minneapolis saw how its anger at what happened to George Floyd was turned against it in the national political narrative.
And I think there's a sense they're not going to play...
Into any narrative that and they're being called domestic terrorists and agitators and professionals, all this stuff.
And they're refusing to present themselves that way.
They you know, I really haven't seen exceptions to that when I'm out in the streets.
Yeah.
Right.
Maybe that's also where some of the confusion comes in.
Yeah.
It was sort of remarkable, actually.
I was sitting in his office at the police, at City Hall, and to hear a police chief speak so critically, and in such a detailed way, too,
about fellow law enforcement.
You know, even though they're different agencies and they're kind of on opposite sides of this conflict, I'd never quite heard somebody be that critical law enforcement to law enforcement, right?
I thought that was kind of remarkable.
And there is tension.
There's confusion among the police about what...
these agents are trying to accomplish.
I think in that clip that we just heard, Brian O'Hara was, you know, specifically referencing that incident, but he was breaking it down sort of like movement by movement.
Like, you know, now you see one agent doing this and then they bring out knives.