Rose Rimler

And federal agents have cracked down violently on all this.

There's reports and video of them using tear gas and smoke on crowds.

Images of agents spraying people directly in the eyes with this stuff.

And they've shot three people in Minneapolis so far, killing two of them.

The government has said that the people they've killed pose some kind of threat to their agents.

Though the evidence and videos from the scene don't back that up.

We talked to some folks who have been there, including this guy that we're going to call T, who's lived in Minneapolis for more than a decade.

We talked to him on the 24th, the day that agents killed a protester named Alex Preddy.

This man was killed just a few blocks away from where T lives.

It was the day after a big general strike in Minneapolis.

T told us about what he's witnessed in the city these past few weeks.

He's joined several protests, and he has seen things escalate.

So today, we're going to talk about what's happening there.

We're going to dive into some science around tear gas, which scientists are looking at, because it's not just Minneapolis.

The stuff is being used on people all over the world, and we're starting to find out more about what it might be doing to us, like what the long-term effects could be.

Plus, we'll talk about immigration raids themselves and what they can do to people in the community.

That is all coming up after the break.

Welcome back.

This is Rose Rimler.

And today we're talking about the stuff that people are getting exposed to amid this huge influx of ICE agents in Minneapolis.