Rachel Maddow

But they've got whistles when they're doing this work, whistles to blow in case ICE shows up to let everybody know what's happening to give people a chance to protect themselves.

One leader of Take Action Minnesota telling the Wall Street Journal, quote, we wanted to have folks ready to respond.

Amanda Otero continuing, quote, everyone is all aligned.

We don't want ICE in our schools.

Joining us now is Amanda Otero.

She is a Minneapolis parent.

She's co-executive director of Take Action Minnesota.

Ms.

Otero, I really appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight.

Thank you.

We showed a bunch of footage in the previous segment about some of the really chaotic violence that's been carried out by Trump's federal agents in your city and the way people are responding, the way people are responding both to the killing of Renee Goode, but also responding spontaneously when those acts of violence are happening around the city.

Let me just ask you how you're doing, how your community is doing, how you think people are holding up.

In terms of folks showing up, we've heard from some nonprofit groups and some sort of recently formed activist groups saying they've seen a real surge recently in volatilism and people wanting to do this kind of ICE observation or kind of community response work, especially in the past week, especially in the week of Ms.

Good being killed by an ICE agent.

Have you seen the same surge in interest at your organization?

In terms of the kind of involvement that you're seeing, are the people who are volunteering and working with your organization doing those kind of things you just described, is it generally people who have an activist history, people who've been involved in other sorts of activist groups and other issues over the years, or are you finding that just regular civilian folks who've never really been involved in things before feel like this moment is different and this is a time to get involved even if they haven't done this kind of work in previous parts of their lives?

People who are inspired by what they're seeing in terms of the Minneapolis community response right now and by groups like yours, do you have any lessons learned or any advice for people in other cities around the country who are thinking they may wanna do that kind of work or set up that kind of organization where they live?

Off the sidelines.

Amanda Otero, Minneapolis parent, co-executive director of Take Action Minnesota.

Thank you so much for your time tonight and good luck.