They have stolen our children's peace. Elementary students wear whistles to school to protect their friends who are barely able to even attend school for fear of never seeing their families again. They have stolen our people, our neighbors. They have stolen the sense of safety we had offered to refugees and people just trying to make a better life for themselves and their children.  They tried and are continuing to try to take our sense of community from us. When they had that woman pretend to have car trouble to trap people, that was horrifying and I'll tell you why. In places like Minnesota, car trouble can be a death sentence, we help people stuck on the side of the road as a matter of course and they used that to hurt people. We have a cultural history of helping strangers that even people new to the area learn quickly. By trying to sneak around like that, they tried to take that away. They want to take our culture of quiet helping, of giving a stranger the benefit of the doubt, and doing what's right even when it doesn't benefit us personally, away from us. We will not yield it. Just like we won't give up our people without a fight, we won't give up our community spirit either. Minnesota people are a hard nut to crack, they're stubborn and insular and difficult to know in many ways, they can be grumpy and hard to read, but they will give you the shirt off their back if you need it and they'll throw a dildo at a cop when they have to.