Meg Anderson

That has felt much more present in the way that I'm talking with people when I'm interviewing them.

With some people, I think it has created a little bit more of a sense of ease to just be like, oh, yeah, okay, you live here.

Like, oh, you get it.

But then I think there are other people like I have noticed, you know, because I was at the site where Renee Good was shot like two hours after it happened.

And

I have watched over the last month, like people become more guarded with the media.

Oh, I think people are scared and freaked out.

And you know, as we see more reporting about like facial recognition technology, or there are, you know, rumors that I believe still are, I don't know if they're founded or not, if there's reporting on this, but like,

infiltrating signal chats, right?

Or that there's going to be more focus on signal chats and things like you can feel people kind of becoming a little more insulated and a little like, actually, I don't want to talk to you or can I talk to you anonymously?

I think it is too early to say.

What I'm hearing from people in the community is, nope, like nothing is different yet.

Wow.

There are still federal agents kind of roaming the streets.

There are still kind of these very tense clashes between observers and

And these federal agents.

Another thing I think is important context is so the surge that started at the beginning of December was about 2000 federal agents coming to Minnesota.

Then after Renee Macklin Good was shot, they escalated that number to 3000.

They added 1000 agents.

And then – so really, like, I think important context here is that this drawdown that was announced this week is still – it's like a de-escalation from an escalation, right?