The shooting death of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent sparked demonstrations around the country on Thursday, including one in downtown Los Angeles.
Dozens of people, including local activists, immigrant rights groups, and members of the clergy, gathered at the Federal Building where they chanted the woman’s name – Renee Nicole Good.
“Together against the terror that our communities have faced over the last six months, and today we stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis, as we remember and say her name, Renee Nicole Good,” Reverend Francisco Garcia from Sacred Resistance said. “Nicole, we stand holding the fear and the terror and the sorrow, the deep grief that has transpired needlessly. Needlessly. Murder at the hands of our tax dollars, state-sanctioned, and so this cannot be, this cannot stand, and we offer our continued witness to stand against these atrocities, against this evil, and let us gather and begin this program to bear witness to the grief and the sorrow and to the hope of collective action together.”…