Joe Barrett
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The second deadly shooting by immigration agents in less than three weeks.
So I just am getting to the scene of yesterday's shooting, and the street here is still closed off at this point.
probably 100, 200 people just coming to pay their respects.
Lots of media, lots of well-wishers.
The police are here to direct the traffic.
People are bringing their dogs out.
I saw one older couple, they had a framed photo of the victim and a candle.
Yesterday, I went to the scene of the shooting.
There were a lot of people there paying their respects.
I then went to a protest that I just happened to see in downtown near my hotel.
There were 300 people screaming their heads off and doing protest-y things, not always peacefully.
And then at the end of the night, there was a vigil I went to in a park that's just down the street from where Mr. Pretti lived.
Three different vibes in three different places.
There's a lot of anger.
There's a lot of sadness.
And people are out on the streets expressing that.
She said, you know, she really wants to get this done and that if she had a front burner in front of her front burner, that's what this would be on.
She made a really interesting comparison saying that there were 400 ICE or extra agents surged into Illinois and Chicago.
And here we're talking about 3,000 to 4,000 in a much, much smaller state.
Just really asking the government specifically, is there a point at which your enforcement is just too much?