About 250 people packed the corners of Redlands Boulevard and Orange Street on Jan. 25 for a “We Stand with Minnesota” protest that condemned federal immigration enforcement tactics after the death of 37-year-old Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti — and called on Redlands leaders to do more to protect residents on local public property.
Organizers and speakers pointed to recent local-government efforts elsewhere — including a Jan. 15 action by the Jurupa Valley City Council adopting a resolution that denounces masked, unidentifiable federal agents and seeks to restrict the use of city-owned spaces for staging civil immigration enforcement operations — as a model they want Redlands to consider.
Kristin Washington, chair of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party, said the protest was organized quickly after the Minneapolis incident and still drew strong turnout…