From KCRW and placement theory, this is Question Everything, Brian Reid here with a special episode off our regular schedule because of the snowballing constitutional emergency in Minnesota.

ICE has killed American citizens in the streets.

Now two journalists, Don Lemon and independent

Minnesota reporter Georgia Fort, have been arrested for covering a protest. The government is going

after people who are documenting what federal agents are doing, both quote-unquote official

journalists and ordinary Minnesota residents who have reordered their lives to observe ice agents.

Our team has been talking to Minnesotans all week, trying to understand what life is like there

right now, what people feel is important that we cover. And while doing this, our managing

editor, Kevin Sullivan, he ended up on the phone with a former colleague of his named Michael Corey.

Mike lives in St. Paul with his wife and two kids.

He's a former dated journalist.

That's how he and Kevin know each other from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Mike also worked for a while at the Minnesota Star Tribune, though these days he's a historian at a university.

Kevin was calling Mike because he'd seen a Facebook post Mike had written

hours after ICE agents shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Prettie while Prattie was

filming them a week ago today. In the post, Mike wrote about the fear he and his family were

feeling, even as a white family living in an affluent area.

He had gotten involved in some local organizing efforts himself.

And Kevin was reaching out to him to look for leads and ideas.

But as he was talking to Mike, Kevin messaged me and said, I think we should just run this phone call.

And that's what we're going to do.

Because hearing from Mike, he captures so much of what's happening on the ground right now in Minnesota.

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