Hundreds gathered outside Nashville’s ICE Field Office on Thursday morning holding signs, candles and flowers for a vigil to remember 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Demonstrators called for the agent who shot Good to be arrested, and for the end of immigration enforcement operations in Nashville.
The vigil was organized by Music City Migra Watch, a volunteer organization dedicated to monitoring ICE activity in Middle Tennessee. Mourners sang, prayed and played the trumpet in between speeches, led by Ashley Warbington with Music City Migra Watch.
“They don’t want to be watched. They don’t like accountability. They don’t like us documenting what they’re doing. But today, just like every other day, we still show up and we say, no,” she said. “You can push us all the way to Trinity Lane and we’ll still show up.”
Demonstrators stood in the street, just outside the property line for the Tennessee Department of Homeland Security, which houses the ICE Field Office. That property line was marked by “No Trespassing” signs, and a pair of Homeland Security officers stood nearby and kept an eye on the vigil…