Commentary: Is there such a thing as a peaceful protest in today's ICE age? Friday's planned rebellion will be a test

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Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed this month in Minnesota.Silverio Villegas González was shot and killed in September in a Chicago suburb.

Keith Porter Jr.was gunned down on New Year’s Eve in front of the Northridge apartment building where he lived.

All of them were slain by ICE agents.In the past few months alone, America has repeatedly witnessed — from multiple angles and at varying playback speeds — groups of aggressive, twitchy, masked men conduct immigration sweeps on the order of President Trump and his Department of Homeland Security.The scenes are the stuff of nightmares, and even villainy.After agent Jonathan Ross shot legal observer Good three times, including once in the head, he mumbled the expletives “f— b—” as her SUV drifted into a light post.

Two weeks later, at least one ICE agent was seen clapping after Pretti was shot multiple times as he lay pinned on the ground.If the intention of the Stephen Miller-run White House was to crush the resistance with violence, it has backfired.The number of protests in cities around the nation has grown in size and frequency.

And local networks that offer instruction and training for how to legally observe ICE raids are proliferating by the day.In short, as ICE has ramped up its operations, so too has the resistance.Now, a consortium of various civil rights and advocacy groups is calling for the largest anti-ICE demonstration to date, a national shutdown.

“The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country — to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN,” reads nationalshutdown.org.“On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.”Given the sense of urgency triggered by the invasive and deadly tactics of federal officers over the past few months, Friday’s planned shutdown could be huge.

But unlike other major demonstr...