From Minneapolis to L.A., how Renee Good's death reignited calls to abolish ICE
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In downtown Los Angeles on Friday, hundreds gathered as part of a nationwide protest of ongoing immigration raids that have rattled cities and communities across the country.Labor organizers, clergy leaders and immigrant rights groups gathered at La Placita Olvera to march down to the federal detention facility where Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds detainees.They came together less than a month after a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, was fatally shot by an ICE agent, and protests have roiled the city as raids have continued.L.A.
City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez made an appearance and reiterated the common refrain to “abolish ICE.”“Look at all the people around you.This is what’s going to save us from authoritarianism,” she said, addressing the hundreds that had gathered in La Placita, a historical site of Latino organizing.
“I’m a council member, but the government will not save you.It’s the people that are standing arm in arm with you that are going to save our families, keep our families whole and repair the harm that the federal government is doing.”The protest was one of several across the country as immigration raids have continued.
This time, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and CLUE, a clergy organization, came together to organize a march to the detention center.Organizers recognized the death of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was shot multiple times by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan.7.
She had dropped off her son at school when she came upon ICE agents during a raid.Federal officials have defended ICE agent Jonathan Ross’ actions as self-defense and have accused Good of weaponizing her vehicle in “an act of domestic terrorism.” Local and state officials, citing video evidence, have rejected that claim, and calls to rein in ICE have escalated as her death has resonated across the country.
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