Part 2

I’m writing this from Minnesota.

These are just a few things that may not be making the national or international news.

• When detainees are released from custody at the Whipple Building, they are released into the cold with no cell phone, inadequate clothing, and no support. A team of volunteers called Haven Watch meets them and supports them.

• A marching band called Brass Solidarity played at Alex Pretti’s memorial.

• Indigenous Tribal members performed a dance in honor of Alex Pretti’s soul at his memorial.

• Drummers, with full drum sets filled the Stone Arch Bridge in Minnesota drumming in protest.

• Potter’s Pasties restaurant fed protestors at the Whipple Building.

• Comma bookstore is collecting donations for a local family that was sent to Texas and returned and is trying to get their lives back.

• Lotus Restaurant offered free pho for an hour and served over 600 bowls.

• Modern Times, known as a “hippie diner” is now serving their food for free. All their employees are now volunteering their time. They’ve pledge to serve for free until Operation Surge is over.

• Two US citizen women detained by ICE for obstruction, aided the ICE agent having a seizure during transport to the Whipple Building. The other agents in the car didn’t know how to offer first aid. These women helped until EMTs could arrive. They were still taken to the Whipple Building and detained eventually released.

• Minneapolis Police Department is understaffed and overworked and yet they continue to show up every day, doing their best to protect, serve, and de-escalate. In the hours following Alex Pretti’s death, after the chaos died down and people started honoring the memorial in peace, MPD kept a protective perimeter several blocks from the memorial site.

Through all this, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, Kaohly Her, the BCA and the MN correctional and prison system are continuing to follow the law, even when the feds break the first, second, fourth, tenth, and fourteenth amendments on a daily basis.

We here in MN don’t believe that things are getting better. Word is now that Fort Snelling is being activated as a place to house DHS operations. They are coming in bigger.

So we need to get even bigger with our care, compassion, and pursuit of justice.

Thanks for giving a shit.

I love you all.

TeriLeigh💜