Richard Carlbom

Let's hear from Richard Carlbom, who's the chairperson of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labour Party, which is affiliated with the National Democratic Party. He's been talking to my colleague Paul Henley. What we see on the ground here is more than 3,000 ICE agents violating our constitutional rights, roughing up American citizens. The morning they asked us to ramp down the rhetoric, they were throwing tear gas outside of a preschool in a suburb.

Yeah, in the last three weeks we've trained over 8000 individuals to be constitutional observers. What this means is that people understand what their rights are in a moment when federal agents are acting lawlessness. And what the result of this is, people around the world are seeing video evidence of federal agents violating constitutional rights and breaking the law. So the constitutional observers are doing really important work on the front lines, revealing the lawlessness.

Well, people can see with their own two eyes the truth. Public opinion when it comes to ICE actions and federal agents' actions in Minnesota and around the country has shifted dramatically over the last several weeks because our observers are collecting that video evidence, producing it on the internet, and people around the world are watching Donald Trump's federal agents violating rights, and people are ready to hold them accountable. Has the situation been diffused now?

Mitä sanon sinulle, että koska Tom Homan on Minnesotassa, hän haluaa, että me otamme samanlaisia tehtäviä, joita olemme olleet viime viikkoja, mutta nyt vain se, joka tekee niitä, rauhoittaa meitä. Onko protesterit tärkeitä ulkopuolelta? Jotkut pitäisivät olla. Minun mielestäni on tärkeä riski osallistua protesteihin, jopa rauhoittamiseen protesteihin.

I'm so proud of the Minnesotans who show up because it is a scary situation, but they continue to show up. What's really devastating to me is that there are American citizens, because they are black or brown, who are afraid to leave their house. I know people who are American citizens who literally, when they go get groceries, they carry their passport because they've been stopped. And that is really the devastating consequence.

You are encouraging protest, which the government says is a provocation. How do you react when people say you are provoking trouble? One week ago today, on Friday, we had thousands, tens of thousands of people peacefully protest in a march in downtown Minneapolis. And it was one of the most beautiful things. All of that was peaceful. The next morning at 9 a.m., ICE agents executed Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis in broad daylight. That is not peaceful.

Nämä ovat meidän perheemme, meidän ystävämme, jotka ovat olleet otteet ja pysyneet kuinka kauan. Ehkä me emme näe heitä viikkoja, ehkä me emme näe heitä koskaan. Tuo huoli, tuo huoli on saanut paljon ihmisiä yhdessä.