The song comes after a New Jersey performance earlier this month, at which Springsteen dedicated his song ‘Promised Land’ to Good, who was killed on January 7. Pretti was killed on Saturday, January 24; Springsteen wrote ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ the same day. “I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen posted on social media. “Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice/Singing through the bloody mist…We’ll remember the names of those who died/On the streets of Minneapolis,” sings Springsteen in the song’s chorus. At the end of the post that accompanied the song’s release, Springsteen signed off: “Stay free, Bruce Springsteen”.