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Noel King

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Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

You see people being reallyβ€”I don't know, you see people being really brave, and I wonder which of those emotions, which of the emotions do you think is surfacing the most right now?

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

You know, you see peopleβ€”

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

doing things that I don't think they expected of themselves.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

I don't think they knew that this is something they could do.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

And that so much of it is around the togetherness of it, that we're kind of all in it together.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

And I think that can fuel people's courage there.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

But I also don't want to minimize the impact of Saturday's killing in particular.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

I talked to a volunteer yesterday who used the word demoralized.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

And that's certainly understandable and obviously frightening, too.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

It takes considerable physical courage to actually go out and do this because it's become so unpredictable what could happen, as we've seen in two weeks, as Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara pointed out on some Sunday shows yesterday.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

Let's talk about Alex Preddy and what happened this weekend.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

Most of us, I would imagine, have seen the video.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

What do we know about why Alex Preddy was shot?

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

Well, he appears to have been recording federal agents with his phone, like has become common.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

And then he seems to try to intervene after a woman was pushed down by a federal agent.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

And then he gets into this scuffle with probably a half dozen federal agents.

Today, Explained
"Abolish ICE"

He is a law-abiding concealed carry permit holder who was armed.