"People have been taking to the streets nationwide this weekend to protest the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week. At least 1,000 events across the U.S. were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, a progressive grassroots coalition of activists helping coordinate the movement it calls "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action.""
"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.""
Thousands of people gathered across the United States for planned "ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action" events after Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, was shot and killed by an ICE officer. Indivisible helped coordinate at least 1,000 protests to grieve, honor victims, and demand accountability from immigration enforcement. Large crowds in Minneapolis carried signs and chanted "ICE out now!" Protesters expressed fear that increased ICE deployment could escalate violence and lead to further deaths. Organizers emphasized that deaths linked to ICE are personal tragedies with names, families, and futures attached, and called for refusal to stay silent.
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