Minneapolis ICE shooting: Southern California joins protests over killing of Renee Nicole Good
Southern Californians are joining nationwide protests after a 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
Dozens gathered at Olvera Street Wednesday night to protest the shooting that claimed the life of Renee Nicole Good. Many said they were devastated and fear it will happen again.
"The impunity with which this administration is coming after people who are living earnestly and honestly in their communities is really scary," said Maxwell Cabello of Boyle Heights.
More demonstrations are planned for Thursday outside the federal building in downtown Los Angeles.
In a post on X, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called the shooting a "senseless killing of an innocent and unarmed wife and mother" that "should never have occurred."
Good's killing in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis Wednesday was recorded on video by witnesses, quickly drawing a crowd of angry protesters .
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, while visiting Texas, described the incident as an "act of domestic terrorism" carried out against ICE officers by a woman who "attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him."
In a social media post, President Donald Trump made similar accusations against the woman and defended ICE's work.
Hours later, at an evening news conference in Minnesota, Noem didn't back down, claiming the woman was part of a "mob of agitators." She said the veteran officer who fired his gun had been rammed and dragged by an anti-ICE motorist in June.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blasted Noem's version of what happened as "garbage" and criticized the federal deployment of more than 2,000 officers to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul as part of the immigration crackdown.
"What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust," Frey said, calling on the immigration agents to leave. "They're ripping families apart. They're sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people."
"They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is bullshit," the mayor said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
