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Viewers show overwhelming support for the gaming outlet's stance on ICE.

"You've probably heard that Minneapolis could use some help right now," MinnMax host Ben Hanson said in the most recent episode of gaming podcast The MinnMax Show.

"Everybody's on edge, everybody's really freaked out. The city is scared. It's being terrorized by ICE agents, and you can feel it everywhere you go," Hanson said on an earlier podcast two weeks ago, titled Let's Talk About Minneapolis.

"I don't think people realize how bad it is," said cohost Sarah Podzorski. "Everyone seems to think it's happening away from us. What people don't understand is there are 2,000 ICE agents crawling [over] not only Minneapolis, not only St. Paul, but in every single suburb we have. I had ICE agents this morning a block from my house going into apartments. It's literally happening down the street from me, and you hear it, and you hear the whistles of people spotting ICE agents. I go to bed and hear helicopters circling overhead."

As ICE's presence in the state has become more and more unavoidable, so has the stress and surreal nature of that reality crept into MinnMax's normal everyday gaming coverage.

"When they committed murder and then they got the 'okay' that they had immunity, it ramped up 200% in Minnesota," Podzorski said, in reference to the January 7 killing of Renee Good. "I feel very powerless. Going to protests is one thing, but I've just been trying to talk about it as much as I can. When you ask me how we're doing, I will tell you 'not well.' I've talked about it on my stream, we're talking about it here. I feel like the best thing I can do is just tell people what's happening."

At that time federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had not yet killed a second Minnesota citizen, Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse working at the Minnesota Veterans Affairs medical center. A colleague called him "a super nice, super helpful guy" and "outstanding" nurse. The government has, by contrast, referred to Pretti as a "domestic terrorist." His shooting came a day after thousands turned out in Minneapolis in sub-zero temperatures to protest ICE's presence in the city.

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Today MinnMax posted the video at the top of this article. It compiles clips from the protests, ICE agents pepper-spraying and assaulting United States citizens and questioning them based on their accents, alongs

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