Kat Rosenfield

And because of that, everybody is sort of following their lead.

You have local officials who are responding by...

calling ICE the Gestapo.

I think Tim Walz is the one who said that.

You have them treating them as though they're not legitimate law enforcement, talking about them as though they're not legitimate law enforcement.

You have the local governance in Minneapolis basically abdicating any responsibility for what ICE is doing in the city and any interactions that ICE might be having with Minneapolis residents, which-

Because they're not allowed to.

They were told they are not allowed to be present when ICE is doing something.

They are specifically not allowed to do crowd control when there is a protest present, which means that you have somebody like Renee Good able to drive right into the middle of an ICE operation, interpose herself into a law enforcement operation,

where men with guns are trying to apprehend a suspect.

Whether you think it's good that they're there or not, that is what they're trying to do.

And she completely misunderstood what was going to happen if she went in, antagonized these officers, got in their way, made them feel like they wanted to detain her,

and then tried to flee.

There was no margin for error for her there, and she didn't know that, and that is what is so incredibly tragic.

And I do think that local governance in Minnesota, people like Jacob Frey and Tim Walz, bear an enormous amount of responsibility for creating a situation in which somebody got killed.

I mean, I do not think that she should have been killed.

I think it's incredibly tragic and horrible that she was killed.

I don't want to try to litigate the shooting itself.

I mean, I'm a culture writer.

I'm a novelist.