Bearing Witness in a City on Edge

Bearing Witness in a City on Edge

With red faces and steaming breath, more than two hundred faith leaders from across the country climbed back onto the buses. Dressed in brightly colored regalia, they’d just completed a forty-minute patrol monitoring ICE in ten-below-zero weather on Lake Street in Minneapolis. After a short loving-kindness meditation and song, I invited folks on the bus to debrief. A few people posted on one corner had seen six heavily armed men in face masks em…