Since December, when federal immigration agents started pouring into Minneapolis, City Attorney Kristyn Anderson has been trying to get them out. “The future of our democracy is hanging in the balance right now,” Anderson told NOTUS. In all this, Minneapolis residents have once again grown wary of cops and sirens, something Anderson readily admits and laments. What she hopes residents realize, Anderson said, is that the Minneapolis Police Department is not siding with the federal government. At the moment, it is about striking a fine balance: maintaining the peace even as federal agents escalate violence against those trying to monitor them — and demonstrators keep showing up at hotels where federal agents are staying.