The Washington Post reports:

Jordan’s parents didn’t want her to become an ICE watcher.

But on Tuesday, after a single day of training, she climbed into her Jeep and joined hundreds of neighbors patrolling the streets of this embattled city, where federal immigration agents have shot and killed two people this month who were monitoring and attempting to disrupt their activities.

“I’m not really nervous, it’s more like, I want to prevent bad things from happening in my neighborhood,” Jordan, 40, said as she headed out. Her family, however, had deeper worries — that she too might get shot, or federal agents could identify and harass her. She agreed to be interviewed on the condition that her last name not be used, for fear of government reprisals.

More than 34,000 Minnesotans have signed up to be trained as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good, a poet and mother of three, after an encounter with an ICE convoy in South Minneapolis.

The killings of Good and, on Saturday, ICU nurse Alex Pretti underscore the dangers for the city’s widespread resistance movement, a loosely connected network of neighborhood volunteers who communicate on Signal, the private messaging app, as they play cat and mouse with heavily armed and masked federal agents on snowy streets. [Continue reading…]

Anderson Cooper speaks with Kayla Schultz, who recorded the shooting of Alex Pretti through a car windshield. She’s now speaking out for the first time: