Rachel Maddow

That also seems to have had the opposite of their intended effect.

It caused more people to commit more to being in the streets more of the time, to come out in larger numbers, to come out with more resolve and, honestly, with more emotion.

It definitely sent support for them soaring all around the country.

On Friday, you'll recall, there were huge marches and demonstrations in Minneapolis.

A day in which the whole city of Minneapolis basically shut down.

Kids home from school, people didn't go to work, people agreed that they would spend nothing that day, transact no business that day.

They instead spent the day in prayer and protest and finding new ways to stand up for each other, including these

dozens of members of the clergy who were arrested Friday morning at the Minneapolis-St.

Paul airport.

They were there urging Delta Airlines and Signature Aviation and other companies with business at the airport to stop cooperating with ICE.

Peaceful civil disobedience by members of the clergy, dozens of whom were arrested at the start of the day Friday morning in that bitter, bitter Sub-Zero cold.

It was the next day, Saturday.

when Trump's federal agents killed Alex Preti in the street.

And the streets filled instantly in response, in protest, in anger, in grief.

And by that night, there were protests and vigils all over the city and on Sunday as well, just everywhere in Minneapolis.

At the site where they killed him, at Whittier Park in that same neighborhood where they killed him,

in downtown at Minneapolis City Hall and communities all over the city, retirement homes, right?

Where octogenarians came out into the bitter minus 20 degree weather to hold candles in vigil for Alex Preddy and for their city.

I mean, still today, this was a walkout today at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

But it wasn't only Minneapolis standing up for themselves.