Anti-ICE protests across US demand justice in Good’s death: NPR

People took to the streets across the country this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Rene Judd in Minneapolis. A 37-year-old woman was shot and killed By a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week.

At least 1,000 events are planned across the United States on Saturday and Sunday, According to the indivisiblea grassroots, progressive coalition of activists that helps coordinate the movement called “ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action.”

People are coming together “to grieve, honor those we’ve lost, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for too long,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible.

“Renee Nicole Goode was a wife, mother of three, and a member of her community. She and the dozens of sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents, and community members killed by ICE should be alive today,” Greenberg said in a statement Friday. “ICE violence is not a statistic, it is connected to names, families, and futures, and we refuse to look away or remain silent.”

Large crowds of demonstrators carried signs and chanted “Get out now!” like The protests continued Via Minneapolis on Saturday. One of those protesters, Cameron Kritikos, told NPR he’s concerned that having more ICE agents in the city could lead to more violence or another death.

“If more ICE officers are deployed on the streets, especially in a place here where there is very clear public opposition to terrorizing our neighborhoods, I’m nervous there will be more violence,” the 31-year-old grocery store worker said. “I’m nervous that there will be more clashes with law enforcement officials, and ultimately I think that’s not what anyone wants.”

The night before, hundreds of city and state police officers responded to a “noise protest” in downtown Minneapolis. An estimated 1,000 people gathered Friday night, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, and 29 people were arrested.

People demonstrated outside hotels where ICE agents were believed to be staying. They were chanting, beating drums, and banging pots. O’Hara said a group of people broke away from the main protest and began damaging the hotel’s windows. He added that one of the police officers was injured by a piece of ice thrown at the officers.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the violence but praised what he said was the “vast majority” of protesters who remained peaceful. During a morning press conference.

“To anyone who causes property damage or endangers others: You will be arrested,” Frey said. “We face Donald Trump’s chaos not with our own kind of chaos, but with care and unity.” he wrote on social media.

Commenting on the protests, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told NPR in a statement: “The First Amendment protects expression and peaceful assembly — not riots, assault and destruction,” adding: “DHS is taking measures to uphold the rule of law and protect public safety and our officers.”

Judd was shot and killed the next day by DHS Launched a large-scale immigration enforcement operation Minnesota is set to deploy 2,000 immigration officers to the state.

In Philadelphia, police estimated that about 500 protesters “were cooperative and peaceful” in a march that began Saturday morning at City Hall, Philadelphia Police Department spokeswoman Tanya Little told NPR in a statement. No arrests were made.

In Portland, Oregon, protesters gathered and lined the streets outside a hospital on Saturday afternoon, where immigration enforcement agents were bringing in detainees who were injured during detention. Oregon Public Radio reported.

A A man and a woman were shot He was injured by US Border Patrol agents on Thursday in the city. The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting It happened during a targeted vehicle stop and the driver was identified as Luis David Nino Moncada, and the passenger as Yorlenis Pizzabeth Zambrano Contreras, both from Venezuela. As was the case in their assertion of Judd’s fatal shooting, Homeland Security officials claimed the federal agent acted in self-defense after Nino Moncada and Zambrano Contreras “armed their car.”