"Senior Trump administration officials have justified Good's killing, saying she weaponised her vehicle and threatened the life of the ICE officer who shot and killed her. But video footage from the scene showed Good attempting to drive away before being shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. The incident has renewed scrutiny of Trump's push to deploy heavily armed law enforcement officers to carry out an anti-immigrant crackdown across the US, with local authorities demanding that ICE agents leave their cities."
"Indivisible, a social movement group, said hundreds of demonstrations were scheduled in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other US states on Saturday. ICE's violence is not a statistic, it has names, families, and futures attached to it, and we refuse to look away or stay silent, Leah Greenberg, Indivisible's co-executive director, said in a statement. Steven Eubanks, 51, said he felt compelled to attend a protest in Durham, North Carolina, because of what he called the horrifying killing of Renee Nicole Good by the ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday."
Protests erupted nationwide after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis. Indivisible and local organisers scheduled hundreds of demonstrations across multiple states under the banner ICE Out for Good to mourn victims and demand accountability. Video footage showed Good attempting to drive away before being shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, while senior administration officials said she had weaponised her vehicle and threatened the officer. The killing intensified scrutiny of a large DHS enforcement operation in the Twin Cities and renewed calls for ICE to leave local jurisdictions.
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