More than 1,000 ‘ICE out’ protests planned across US after killing of Renee Good
More than 1,000 anti-ICE protests are taking place across the US this weekend after an agent fatally shot mother-of-three, Renee Good.
Civil liberties and migrant-rights groups will be staging events demanding an end to large-scale deployments of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
A demonstration took place on Saturday in Minneapolis, the city where the shooting occurred.
Among protesters was mother-of-two Meghan Moore.
‘Ice is creating an environment where nobody feels safe and that’s unacceptable.’
At the time she was killed, Good, 37, was participating in one of numerous ‘neighbourhood patrols’ that track, monitor and record ICE activities, according to family and local activists.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump administration officials said Good was ‘impeding’ and ‘stalking’ ICE agents all day, and that the officer opened fire in self-defense when she tried to ram her car into him in an ‘act of domestic terrorism’.
Good was shot dead just a few blocks from where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer crushing his neck into the pavement with his knee during a videotaped arrest in May 2020.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey – who called for ICE to ‘get the f*** out’ of the state in the wake of the shooting – has said any self-defence argument is ‘garbage’.
On Friday, protesters were outside a federal facility serving as a hub for the immigration crackdown that began Tuesday in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
That evening, hundreds protested outside a hotel in downtown Minneapolis, banging on pots and drums and carrying signs that said, ‘ICE Out’ and ‘Don’t Shoot'
Tensions with the federal government have escalated beyond Minneapolis after a US Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man and woman in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday.
Similar to Good’s incident, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the driver had tried to ‘weaponise’ the vehicle and run over agents.
Both shootings have sparked thousands of people to take to the streets of Minneapolis, Portland and other US cities to protest under the banner ‘ICE Out For Good’.
The rallies were being organized by a coalition of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, MoveOn Civic Action, Voto Latino, and Indivisible, some of which were at the forefront of ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump last year.
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