Good evening from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm Chris Hayes, and I am here tonight on Nicolette Avenue.

That's the site of the brutal killing of a United States citizen by his own government.

And we're here on Nicolette Avenue, just a few hundred feet from a group of mourners who were just singing hymns.

We're here outside in the brutal cold, and it's brutal because history is being made here in Minnesota.

It's being made by the people who live here and who refuse day by day to give in or to give up.

In the aftermath of that shooting that just happened over my shoulder,

it's become clear in the last few days that something.

Something is shifting, not just here in Minnesota, but across the country.

And when the record of this era is written down,

what has happened here is likely to play some decisive role

in what kind of country we have on the other side of all this.

What happened here in Minneapolis over the last few weeks, as is so often the case in history, is

tragic. A mass man took the life of a 37-year-old mother of three and poet, Renee Good.

She was shot to death at point-blank range by an agent of her own government.

And then this weekend took the life of Alex Freddie, also 37, an ICU nurse, who was shot

repeatedly by agents of his own government in the back as he was prone on the ground.

Good and Freddie knew there was risk in what they were doing.

They knew it. I mean, certainly Alex Prattie did two weeks after Nadeghut was shot, but they did it anyway,

and they died protecting their neighbors. I think their names are going to be in the ledger

of this country's most elemental struggles. Decades from now, people will know their names are going to be in the ledger of this country's most elemental struggles.

Decades from now, people will know their names, they will be known and celebrated, there will be memorials to them, and they will rightly be remembered as martyred to our union.

But what's remarkable is that they are just two out of hundreds, thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of ordinary people who have mobilized in this moment,

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