More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Portland
The Guardian••nation
Key Points:
- Over a thousand protests are scheduled across the US this weekend in response to ICE agents shooting three people, including the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and the shooting of two Venezuelan immigrants in Portland.
- The demonstrations aim to highlight ongoing ICE violence and its impact on immigrant communities, with organizers like Indivisible calling for justice and the removal of ICE from communities nationwide.
- The Minneapolis shooting of Good, a US citizen, sparked immediate outrage, leading to large local protests, political threats to defund the Department of Homeland Security, and demands from the city’s mayor for ICE to leave.
- Protests have expanded nationwide, with events planned from Hawaii to Maine, coordinated by groups including the ACLU and the National Day Laborer Organizing
