Thousands of people in Chicago, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and other cities across the country, in addition to Minneapolis, are demonstrating in the streets after an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old American woman, Renee Nicole Good, in her car in the Minnesota city. In Detroit, dozens of people gathered in front of the ICE building on Michigan Avenue, in the city center, to protest against the agents.
The protest was organized by the Comité de Acción Comunitaria, the Detroit Community Action Committee. The main organizer, Kassandra Rodriguez, denounced “the abuse of power.” “I believe this is something that should never happen and is completely unacceptable,” she stated. “And I believe it’s up to our local administrations to take a strong stance against such a situation and not allow ICE to do whatever it wants in our neighborhoods.”
In New York, demonstrators filled Foley Square for what organizers called an emergency demonstration in response to the Minneapolis incident, then marched to 26 Federal Plaza, the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security. Protesters chanted the name “Renee Nicole Good.”
The crowd also protested outside the ICE building in downtown San Francisco, where speakers from various organizations, including Indivisible SF, took turns sharing their message with the crowd. “Minneapolis is suffering today, and we mourn her,” said one participant. Hundreds of protesters in Seattle , meanwhile, gathered outside the Federal Building. A demonstration was also held in Boston Common, the city park located in the center of the Massachusetts capital.
“The news coming from Minneapolis is horrible. This is one aspect of a year full of cruelty, and we know that when ICE agents attack immigrants, they attack all of us across the country,” said the mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani. “This will always be a city that defends immigrants in all five boroughs,” he added. “I have made it clear to all members of the city administration, including the New York City Police Department, that we will respect sanctuary city policies. We will respect them.”
For her part, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House of Representatives for the State of New York, called ICE an “anti-civilian paramilitary organization. What we saw was a criminal… a criminal who killed a woman and shot her in the head as she tried to escape for her life. What we witnessed is the manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated: “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is a blatant liar and has no credibility. The masked ICE agent who pulled the trigger should be criminally investigated with the full severity of the law for acting with depraved indifference to human life.” New York Senior Senator Chuck Schumer added: “Department of Homeland Security agents should not patrol our neighborhoods like an occupying force: their presence only creates chaos and costs human lives.”
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