Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, January 27. I'm Andrew Wiseman,

and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord. Hello, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew. It's a little more somber today.

Yeah, so we're going to go right into it. And we're actually going to focus,

obviously, on Minnesota. There are so much to talk about. And we're definitely going to cover the

legal aspects, but we're also going to start by talking about sort of the necessary factual

prerequisites that get you into legal issues. Mary, do you want to explain sort of how we're going to

break this up? Sure. There's so much that has happened that it's almost hard to figure out what

order to put it in. But obviously, we will start with the absolutely tragic shooting of Mr.

Pretty in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Many of us were just kind of up and about when we got the news of that.

And then I and many others, including you, Andrew, as we were texting back and forth

throughout the day, as people found new videos, new footage, you know, looking at it,

analyzing it.

Anyway, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the fact that

the federal government tried to basically block out the state and local investigators and the

Bureau of Criminal Investigation from doing its own investigation, talk about where that leads,

that spurred its own emergency motion on

Saturday to make sure that the federal government wouldn't destroy evidence. We'll talk about that.

We'll move on to so much of the other litigation that is happening in Minnesota. There have been

cases we've already talked about, like the Tinscher case where protesters on behalf of a class brought

a suit challenging the unconstitutional and unlawful and First Amendment retaliation that they

were experiencing. They got an injunction that's now been stayed by the Eighth Circuit.

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