"Renee Nicole Good was a wife, a mother of three, and a member of her community. She, and the dozens of other sons, daughters, friends, siblings, parents, and community members who have been killed by ICE, should be alive today," Greenberg said in a statement on Friday. "ICE's violence is not a statistic, it has names, families, and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent."
"If more ICE officers are deployed to the streets, especially a place here where there's very clear public opposition to the terrorizing of our neighborhoods, I'm nervous that there's going to be more violence," the 31-year grocery store worker said. "I'm nervous that there are going to be more clashes with law enforcement officials, and at the end of the day I think that's not what anyone wants."
Protests occurred across the United States after a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Indivisible organized an "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action" with at least 1,000 events planned nationwide. Demonstrators in Minneapolis and elsewhere carried signs, chanted "ICE out now!", and called for accountability for deaths linked to ICE. Protesters stressed that ICE-related violence affects families and communities. Some participants expressed concern that deploying more ICE officers could increase violence and lead to more clashes with law enforcement in neighborhoods already opposed to aggressive enforcement.
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