Michael Simon Johnson

Well, it is very striking that this is like a sex shop, a really nice one, beautifully laid out, but also at the front there's this... Mutual aid.

Mutual aid.

Well, let's go downstairs.

I'm now walking past the sci-fi fantasy dildo section.

This is a lot.

Lots of boxes of diapers, lots of boxes of formula, wipes.

Just so I have a sense.

How many people have come by today, for example, to like pick up some... Hundreds of people.

But the goods are moving.

Wow, so they know.

What you're describing is a, at least citywide, I don't know exactly what the right word is.

I don't know if it's like...

You feel like you're doing something that is far more actionable.

Yes.

It's having, like, immediate direction.

So that same day, I went to the site where just a week earlier, an ICE officer had shot and killed a Minneapolis resident, Renee Good, in the city's south side.

I'm on the corner of Portland and 35th on one end of the block, and there is a sign on this tree that someone posted.

It says, Visitor Guide.

The block you are entering has become a space of mourning.

Remember, you are a guest in this neighborhood.