And good evening. We are live from Minneapolis, a city still reeling less than a week after a federal agent shot and killed an American citizen, the second such killing in a month.

Welcome to our CNN Town Hall, State of Emergency, confronting the crisis in Minnesota.

I'm Anderson Cooper.

And I'm Sarah Seidner. We are here at a local community center just four days after the fatal shooting of Alex Prattie.

And three weeks since Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents.

And now President Donald Trump is saying he plans to de-escalate the situation in Minnesota,

even as he continues to go after local officials.

What that means, and when that may happen, remains an open question for the entire community here.

Yeah, and here with us tonight to take your questions is Minneapolis Mayor,

Jacob Fry, the Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O'Hara, Republican State Representatives, Nolan West,

L.A.N.N.E.N., Republican State Senator Michael Homestrom. We're also joined by Minnesota Attorney

General Keith Ellison. And our audience tonight is made up of members of this greater

Minneapolis community.

To find our questioners, we reached out to political and business groups, universities, and other civic organizations.

Now, tonight's participants will be asking their own questions covering a variety of topics.

You might see them holding a piece of paper.

That is their question on that piece of paper.

It is a question they wrote, and it has not been edited in any way by CNN. And I want to note CNN invited the White House Borders are Tom Homan, who is here in Minneapolis, to join us to take questions tonight. He declined, as did Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Nome. Governor Tim Walts was also invited to be here to answer questions from his constituents, and he declined.

We're going to get to the audience in a moment, but first, a look at the events that led us here tonight.

It began in early December.

We are here to respond to a number of credible reports from several media outlets, relaying that there are as many as

100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting

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