The other day, I met two people who recently moved to Minnesota from a red state, bc of the civil protections that MN still has in place. Turns out they live just a few blocks from where #AlexPretti was killed, and we were having our meetup just two blocks from the memorial. I went to pay my respects. Much like the #GeorgeFloyd memorial, the sacred silence surrounding it was palpable. A few others were also walking around reading poems, looking at drawings, taking it in