Kim Wells from Portland holds a sign with a picture of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE officer on Jan. 7. Wells said while Good wasn’t the first person killed by ICE, she represents “Americans who don’t necessarily have to come out and speak, protesting.” (Photo by Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)
Expressing fear and resolve in the face of a heightened federal crackdown, several hundred people gathered in Portland’s Monument Square on Saturday as part of a national wave of demonstrations following the killing of a legal observer in Minneapolis by a federal agent.
The weekly demonstration organized by the local chapter of Indivisible, the national protest group, usually draws 60-100 people. But the crowd swelled after Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot during a Wednesday raid on the city’s immigrant community…