Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle:

I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from the Minnesota Star Tribune that there had been a shooting. I was on assignment at a pond hockey event, and someone who was supposed to play later that evening said he probably wouldn’t be able to make it – they knew there would be protests and demonstrations happening.

I arrived a little over three hours later. Federal officers had already cleared the scene – the FBI had been there investigating – so the only law enforcement present were state and local officials: the Minneapolis Police Department, their SWAT team, the Hennepin …

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