Protests against ICE planned across US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
MINNEAPOLIS– Protests against immigration enforcement are planned for Saturday in cities and towns across the country after a federal officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis and another fatally shot two people in Portland, Oregon.
The protests come as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security advances in the Twin Cities with what it calls its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation. President Donald Trump’s administration said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack the officers.
Indivisible, a social movement organization created to resist the Trump administration, said hundreds of protests were planned in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other states. Many have been dubbed “ICE Out for Good” using the acronym for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Indivisible and its local chapters held protests in all 50 states last year.
In Minneapolis, a coalition of migrant rights groups called for a protest at Powderhorn Park, a large green space about a half-mile from where Renee Good, 37, was shot to death Wednesday in a residential neighborhood. They said the rally and march would celebrate Good’s life and call for “an end to murderous terror on our streets.”
Protests in the neighborhood so far have been peaceful, unlike the violence that gripped Minneapolis following the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Near the airport, clashes broke out Thursday and Friday between small groups of protesters and agents guarding the federal building used as a base for the Twin Cities crackdown.
The Trump administration has sent thousands of federal agents to Minnesota as part of a new crackdown linked in part to fraud allegations involving Somali residents. More than 2,000 officers participated.
Some officers moved in after abruptly withdrawing from Louisiana, where they were part of another operation that began last month and is expected to last until February.
