NPR: How the Minneapolis killings look from Trump country

NPR: In an era when Americans on either side of the political divide are wary of talking to one another and increasingly live in separate information eco-systems, the best thing a national reporter can do is get in the car and drive. That is what I did not long after Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis. I drove to Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Caroline County, which voted for President Trump by a margin of more than 2-to-1 last year.

I walked the icy streets of Denton, the county seat, to find out what people thought of the killing. Trump supporters backed the federal agents who shot Pretti. They said protesters were obstructing agents from doing their jobs in Minneapolis, and Pretti was unwise to have brought a gun. But what really hit me during this trip was that so many people had not seen videos of the shooting, and some had no idea what I was talking about. Some said they were too busy with their own lives, burned out on news or lost in their own social media algorithms. Hear or read more about what I learned here.