Minneapolis ICE shooting: Anti-ICE protests held across Chicago area in response to deadly federal agent shooting of Renee Good
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Demonstrations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) erupted nationwide on Saturday, as people expressed their anger over the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The White House has stated that the agent involved acted in self-defense during the incident.

In Minneapolis, a crowd of hundreds assembled outside the federal building, passionately calling for ICE to withdraw from their city.

Similar protests unfolded in other major metropolitan areas, including various locations throughout the Chicago region.

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In Chicago, peaceful protestors once again filled the streets, uniting in response to Good’s death at the hands of an ICE agent.

Protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued Saturday as a part of an “ICE Out For Food” weekend of action following the death of the Minneapolis mother of three.

“I know we’re all out here now, but there should be more people,” Berwyn resident Jim Topczewski said. “Somebody got killed by our government… I’m old enough to remember Kent State, and I think that was our Kent State moment.”

It’s just so frustrating what is happening and it’s fascism.

Close to 100 people ignored the cold and winter weather to line a portion of Roosevelt Road for the midday rally in west suburban Forest Park.

“To see Trump warning, the Iranian government not to shoot peaceful protesters yet his own agents are doing that here in America. It’s beyond appalling,” Forest Park resident Louise Brueggemann said.

The Saturday morning demonstration was organized by the anti-postal service privatization group, The People’s Post Alliance Indivisible, national day of protest against ICE.

It’s our country, our democracy, and we have to be out here to defend it and fight for it” organizer Walter Mitchell Jr. said.

Saturday’s outrage comes just days after Good was killed, and more than a week after 43-year old Keith Porter Jr., a Black father of two, died at the hands of an off-duty ICE on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles.

The Department of Homeland Security alleges the agent was responding to an “active shooter” when he shot Porter, and that Good was trying to use her car as a weapon. Those accounts have been disputed by others.

“It’s just not about immigrants anymore, undocumented people,” west suburban resident Liz Miranda said. “It’s about everybody right now.”

One woman dressed in a penguin costume donned a sign about democracy to make a point.

“It’s just so frustrating what is happening and it’s fascism,” she said. “Honestly, we shouldn’t have to live with this. People shouldn’t have to live in fear.”

A coalition of groups held similar demonstrations in Chicago and other suburbs, like South Elgin and North Chicago.

“I want when we look back, I wanna be a person that tried to do something at least stick with others and boost our spirits,” Forest Park resident Barbara Etchingham said.

Organizers say their efforts won’t stop here. They say it’s important that the community continue to fight back against what they say is the climate of fear, lawlessness and cruelty created by ICE.

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