Minneapolis Updates
Fallout continues in the wake of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis:
- A federal judge denied Minnesota’s request to temporarily shut down ICE-led operations in Minneapolis, saying the state didn’t meet the high legal bar for blocking the feds.
- Former CNN host Don Lemon was arrested and indicted on federal civil rights charges related to his presence at a protest inside a St. Paul church on Jan. 18; Lemon says he was acting as a journalist.
- The DOJ announced Friday that it’s opening a civil rights probe into the shooting of Pretti.
Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators gathered across 46 states Friday in a “national shutdown” to “stop ICE terror.” President Trump ordered that “under no circumstances” should DHS get involved with protests unless federal property is threatened or local authorities request support.
PRAY WITH US
Peacemaking Savior, do Your redeeming, renewing, healing, helping work in Minneapolis and in places of unrest in my own life. Stir up my zeal for Your Kingdom, my desire for Your presence, and my desperation for Your intervention so that my first instinct is to come to You in every season. You meet me, You hear, and You answer. Amen.
“You will keep the mind that is dependent on you in perfect peace, for it is trusting in you. Trust in the LORD forever, because in the LORD, the LORD himself, is an everlasting rock!”
Isaiah 26:3-4 (CSB) (read full passage)