A near-constant cacophony of car horns issued from the core of Maple Avenue in Vienna yesterday afternoon (Sunday), and this time, it wasn’t an expression of frustration with congestion.
Instead, passing drivers were honking in support of protestors lining both sides of the town’s main street in response to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shooting poet and mother Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday (Jan. 7).
Organized by volunteering local residents, the Vienna “ICE Out for Good” rally was one of hundreds assembled across the U.S. in the days since Good’s killing to “honor the life lost, demand accountability, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions,” according to the grassroots activist network Indivisible, one of several organizations that helped mobilize the protests…