We heard the whistles, heard the screaming, watched people run, and walked toward the scene before we fully understood what was unfolding. What followed wasn’t a headline for us. it was bodies in motion, armed agents in plain clothes, flash-bangs, tear gas in the air, neighbors helping neighbors, and a day that stretched into something unreal.

In this episode, we share what we know without pretending we know more than we do: the timeline as we experienced it, what it felt like to stand face to face with armed men who looked like a militia, how quickly it escalated, how the neighborhood organized in real time, and what it’s like to go back inside your own apartment afterward.

Content notes: state violence, death, protest footage described, tear gas/chemical irritants, anxiety/fight-or-flight, harassment.