SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Large crowds of protestors gathered in Pioneer Park to protest ICE after a Minneapolis woman was killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Renee Good, 37, was shot and killed by an ICE agent around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday during an ICE operation in Minneapolis, in what federal officials called self-defense but what the Minneapolis mayor said was reckless and unnecessary.
Good’s death sparked protests in Minneapolis and across the country, including in Salt Lake City, where the Salt Lake chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organized an “emergency” anti-ICE protest, taking place in Pioneer Park beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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PSL described the purpose of the rally as “demand[ing] ICE out of everywhere now.” Some signs at the protest read “Abolish ICE now,” “Justice for Renee Good,” and “We need to work together to crush ICE.”
“We are very upset. We don’t know how to respond to what’s happening. We’re very upset at what happened to a woman in Minneapolis,” one protestor told ABC4. “As an immigrant myself, I feel like my nervous system is on alert constantly. I feel like no one should be feeling so threatened by so much violence right now.”…