…While we're on our way to a breakfast spot, we drive past a street where, minutes prior, ICE had broken down a family's front door. Two kids are inside. A woman in the house, livestreaming on Instagram, demands to see a warrant. ICE enters anyway, tazes two adults including the woman filming, and grabs a man.

when this happens to your city, and if they get away with it here they will do it in your city, everyone will do the right thing. when this violence comes to your front door, you and your neighbors will run toward men with guns and pepper spray to protect your neighbors. don’t even worry about it, just start getting phone numbers now to better coordinate. 

Folks outside of Minneapolis, call your Senators and Reps. This is a military occupation. I am shaking with fatigue and it is 7:45am. I am especially pleading with you to call if you have Republican reps of any kind, at any level.

…In the time my wife was taking me to the bus stop, ICE showed up to kidnap one of our neighbors. Block response mobilized, my daughter heard the car horns and whistles and saw masked men with guns outside. She didn't know what to do so the only emergency training she's ever gotten kicked in. She turned off all the lights in our house and went and hid in the back room. You know, like an active shooter drill at school. 

A friend said those of us who live in Minnesota should write about what’s going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you’re a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president.

Not far from where I live, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman. At first, I didn’t know her name, just the location. That morning, I received the news via text from an old friend of mine, a Latino activist and a fellow poet. The block where she was killed—34^th and Portland—is the Minneapolis neighborhood right next to mine, a little over half a mile away from where George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight by Officer Derek Chauvin in 2020.

At Hyvee by my home, ICE took a 20 year old US citizen and member of the Red Lake tribe even while he told them he was a citizen. While this happened Robbinsdale Police were present and did nothing. He has since been released.