Noel King

Go Seahawks.

Bridger Dunnigan and David Tatasciore engineered.

And Andrea Lopez Cruzado checked the facts.

I'm Noelle King.

It's Today Explained.

Renee Good's last words, that's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you, to ICE agents, one of whom killed her.

Alex Preddy's last words, according to bystanders, are you okay, to a woman he tried to shield from Border Patrol agents.

After their deaths, federal officials painted the two Minnesota protesters as radicals.

This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.

The feds, in part because they spoke before investigations even began, have lost control of their narrative.

President Trump seems to have copped on.

He said today he's sending his border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis and that Homan will report directly to him.

Homan famously dislikes Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who has, along with Kristi Noem, become the public face of the catastrophe in Minneapolis.

Coming up on Today Explained, ice, lies, and videotape.

My name is J. Patrick Kulikin.

I'm the editor-in-chief of Minnesota Reformer, which is a small nonprofit online news outlet covering politics and policy in Minnesota.

What's it been like running cover to this story?

It's been exhausting and exhilarating and at times depressing and debilitating.

I've never quite encountered a story like this with so many moving pieces and it's evolving so quickly and then bam, you get hit with something new that is catastrophic and causes you to really shift focus.

I was watching video, you know, here in D.C.