Emmanuel Malion

But in the last two weeks or so since the shooting of Rene Good, things have certainly escalated.

So the same day that Rene Good was shot here, I was responding both personally and professionally.

And then later got a call from my brother to say, hey, I'm concerned.

CBP just showed up, arrested two teachers here.

at my nephew's school.

And this is how it's been for the last two weeks.

It's been ping-ponging between taking calls, trying to respond in a professional capacity, and then honestly, every single day, getting alerts, getting calls from either family members, friends, neighbors, that ICE is spotted, that ICE is taking someone.

How do we help?

Is this legal?

All these sorts of things.

And so

Certainly, I think that for the people in Minneapolis on the ground, I cannot emphasize enough that ICE has just become this constant background presence.

And in some neighborhoods, not a background presence.

It's whistles and car horns and honking at every moment of the day.

My general advice is to both know your rights, know the extent of your rights, know that you can ask if you're free to leave, any sort of encounter so that it's not, you know, you can determine whether it's a consensual encounter, whether it's a stop, understand what sorts of questions you're obligated to answer under certain statuses, understand that you can invoke your right to silence and that should be respected.

But these are rights in theory so long as the government recognizes

is willing to acknowledge them, protect them, and obey the law.

And what we've seen here is that that's not been the case.

And so when that is the truth, then I suggest that they understand the risks involved.

They understand that if they're going to go out and observe,