RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Dozens of people gathered in Richmond on Monday for a community vigil commemorating those who’ve been killed in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-involved shootings.
Flowers, candles and offerings lined the Maggie Lena Walker statue on Monday, July 14, as community members paid tribute to the victims while bringing attention to a pattern of deadly encounters involving federal immigration agents.
The vigil, hosted by the Virginia section of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, focused in part on the death of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who was fatally shot by ICE agents in Houston, Texas, on July 7. Federal officials have said Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of the enforcement operation.
“Today is a day of grieving, to mourn, to pay our respects,” one organizer told the crowd…