Emily Witt

I think what you're hearing a little bit in that tape is Fry, the realization kind of hitting him over and over and over again that he was locked in sort of a war with his own federal government and that the city was being sort of overwhelmed by the federal government and that the federal government was...

rather than being a partner of any kind, was a hostile force that was felt all over the city.

And, you know, eventually, he himself learned that he was the subject of a criminal investigation by the DOJ.

So then he personally felt like he was being targeted by the federal government.

The DOJ is allegedly investigating whether the governor and the mayor have colluded in a conspiracy to obstruct immigration operations in the state of Minnesota.

That's pretty incredible, no?

Mayor Fry learned of this through the news, like everybody else.

And the next morning proceeded to go on about four Sunday shows, and they were all asking him, what's this about?

What's up with that?

Do you have any information?

Have you gotten served a subpoena?

What's going on?

And he didn't know anything.

It was surreal.

It was just another layer of unreality to this whole thing.

Yeah, Minneapolis is activated in all kinds of ways.

And one of them is people who go out in their cars and they'll call into a signal chat that has a dispatcher.

And they ride around their neighborhoods and look for suspicious vehicles, which are often American-made SUVs with tinted windows and out-of-state plates.

And they'll call in a license plate.

You know, the volunteers keep a database of known agents.