Emily

So she texted me that and then wrote, I have no idea how to process this with my child.

When did I learn that ice was a thing?

When did you learn that ice was a thing?

Do you remember?

No.

Do you?

And Augie, you know, Augie's nine.

And so that's been one of the really hard things here is to know what do you tell your kid.

I've been trying to talk to him about it just as honestly as possible with trying to emphasize, you know, that he's safe.

But even if he is safe, there's a lot of kids right now around this city his age who aren't.

Yes.

I first told him that a woman had been shot by ICE.

Then the next day, Julian came over and Eli, Julian's dad, said something to me about, oh, and you encountered them that morning in front of Auggie.

And so then Auggie was like, wait, what?

Yeah, I'm OK.

And we talked about it for a couple of minutes.

And then he said, OK, I think we need to stop talking about this now.

And so I respected that and stopped talking about it.

So then the Thursday and Friday after Renee Good was killed, schools were canceled across the city because it just wasn't safe.

I stayed home with Augie and some of his friends came over.