Several NKY residents came out to Kenton County Fiscal Court meeting Tuesday night to call for an end of the Kenton County Detention Center’s agreement to house ICE detainees.
“I love seeing families be able to walk to the park, be able to walk to church, just be able to walk around town, and I don’t want that to go away,” said RJ Johnson, a Covington resident. “I care about my neighbors. I want them to feel comfortable here.”
The meeting was well attended, and Johnson was one of five speakers who came out to ask the Fiscal Court to reconsider an intergovernmental agreement to cooperate with ICE and house ICE detainees in the county detention center. At least one of the speakers had spoken about the same topic in December.
Many of the speakers referenced recent events involving ICE agents around the country, such as the death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Good’s death was followed by nationwide protests, which included demonstrations both in Northern Kentucky and in Cincinnati. Several of the speakers who talked with LINK nky said they had been spurned to speak out after having either attended a rally or seen calls to action on social media…