The New Yorker:

As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.

By Emily Witt

On January 23rd, residents of Minneapolis who have been protesting the presence of ice agents in their city declared a general strike. I had spent much of the previous week there, and the strike had been talked about as the culmination of the city’s anger at the deployment of three thousand immigration agents into the region. That Friday, businesses suspended operations for the day, museums didn’t open, and people stayed home from work. Thousands gathered for anti-ice demonstrations in subzero temperatures in downtown Minneapolis. About a hundred clergy members staged a sit-in at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and were arrested.

Around nine the next morning, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old Minneapolis resident who worked as an I.C.U. nurse at a V.A. hospital. It was the third shooting of a Minneapolis civilian by federal agents this month, and the second fatality. “Not again,” says a voice in the first video I saw of the event, recorded from across the street. As with Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis resident whom an ice agent named Jonathan Ross had shot and killed during a confrontation between anti-ice activists and federal agents on January 7th, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan immigrant who was struck in the leg a week later, the Department of Homeland Security quickly asserted that the victim had posed a threat, and that its agents had acted in self-defense. Pretti “approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun,” the D.H.S. said in an initial statement. The Minneapolis police chief said that Pretti was licensed to carry a gun; it appears to have been holstered and doesn’t seem visible in his hands at any point in the video footage circulating online. The D.H.S. has said that it will lead the investigation into Pretti’s death, despite the fact that its agents have, according to the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, committed two of the three homicides that have taken place in the city so far this year.

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