"Registered nurse Silvia Lu was working the day shift at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland when she read about the shooting death of fellow ICU nurse Alex Pretti who was protesting the ICE immigration crackdown on the streets of Minneapolis. On a routine day shift in the emergency department Saturday, where Lu often cares for children recovering from heart surgeries and car crashes, "I held my tears back the whole day.""
"She carried that pent-up emotion outside the hospital Monday evening, where she joined about 200 others, mostly nurses, in a candlelight vigil to remember the 37-year-old Minnesota nurse whose death has become the latest flashpoint in the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement surge. Just weeks earlier, videos showed an ICE officer shooting and killing Renee Good, another Minnesota protester and mother of three, as she pulled away in her vehicle."
Registered nurse Silvia Lu worked a day shift at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland and learned about the shooting death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, who was protesting an ICE immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Lu held back tears during her shift and joined about 200 people, mostly nurses, in a Monday evening candlelight vigil to remember the 37-year-old. The death joined other recent incidents including videos showing an ICE officer shooting Renee Good weeks earlier. The vigil followed scattered protests in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland and came amid federal immigration actions in Minneapolis and a threatened National Guard deployment that was later withdrawn.
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