ICE protest and vigil held in Montgomery
Protests and vigils have popped up across the nation after video was released of a federal ICE agent shooting and killing a woman protester inside her car in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Yesterday, more than 100 people came to the plaza next to the Court Square Fountain in downtown Montgomery with anti-ICE signs to show their support for Renee Good who was shot while protesting ICE raids in Minneapolis last week.
The people said they are frustrated with ICE’s presence in cities across the nation as well as in their local community.
“We are standing here today in the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, and that has inspired my generation, the generation before me and the generation after me, and they taught us that we have to be persistent if we respond to violence with peace, then eventually we will overcome the troubles that are holding us down today,” Rachel Turner, a member of Alabama Resistors’ Chapter of Indivisible, said.
Federal officials, including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, characterized the shooting as an act of self-defense on the part of the ICE agent who fired the weapon when Good “attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.”
An investigation into the fatal shooting is continuing.
