Vigil, protests to be held Saturday after fatal ICE shootings in Northridge and Minneapolis

Relatives of a man who was fatally shot by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Northridge and civil rights advocates are scheduled to conduct a candlelight vigil in his memory Saturday in Carson and to honor the life of a woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Najee Ali, the director of Project Islamic Hope and one of the vigil’s organizers, said the shootings of Renee Good on Wednesday and Keith Porter Jr. on New Year’s Eve “are not isolated incidents.

“They reflect a dangerous pattern of excessive force, poor judgment, and a lack of accountability that is costing innocent people their lives,” Ali said in a statement. “We are coming together to mourn, to demand truth and to call for justice”…

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