The Battle for Minneapolis examines a city in resistance. Minneapolis, where the killing of George Floyd in 2020 ignited a global reckoning with race and policing, again found itself at the center of a national argument about power and belonging when the federal government deployed thousands of immigration enforcement agents to the city in January 2026, one of the largest domestic enforcement operations in American history.

The weeks that followed saw the killing of two American civilians by federal agents, mass arrests, and a sustained confrontation between state power and a community determined to defend itself. The work moves between sites of confrontation and their aftermath, tracing the presence of grief, solidarity, and resistance in public space through vigils, marches, and the people who refused to be made invisible.

What emerges is a portrait of a community at a defining moment, one that echoes a long history of American cities forced to reckon with who belongs and who does not.

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