ICE shooting reverberates in Eugene at demonstrations, candlelight vigil

At a hotspot for protest activity in downtown Eugene, the mood was somber under dark and drizzly skies Wednesday, Jan. 7.

Seventeen people — including Mayor Kaarin Knudson — stood at a corner of Eugene’s downtown federal building at about 6:20 p.m., with several holding electric candles to memorialize 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the Wednesday morning shooting took place in response to “domestic terrorism,” as the vehicle driven by Good moved toward the officer standing in front of the vehicle before he fired his weapon…

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