MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) — Demonstrators continue to demand an end to ICE operations and are rallying for justice after the killing of 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good.
Sunday’s demonstration in Manhattan was peaceful, and it was not just against the shooting death of Good in Minneapolis, it was against Donald Trump’s domestic and foreign policies that have started off 2026 with so much alarm.
Many of those marching shouted and held messages against ICE. They protested ICE’s rounding up of immigrants who have not committed violent crimes as well as ICE’s clashes with the neighbors and communities and other Americans who don’t want to see those immigrants arrested and deported.
There have been clashes in New York, but nowhere so violently to date as there were in Minneapolis this past week where Renee Good was sending a message that ICE was not welcome in her neighborhood, and was shot and killed by an ICE officer as she tried to get away from the officers who confronted her.
“Renee was killed by the state because she defended her neighbors. She was killed because she defended our collective sense of humanity,” said Manolo Santos of the People’s Forum.
“Even when ICE or the border patrol are used for a supposedly legitimate function, deporting an undocumented worker, that’s paid for by taking food from the hundreds of children because of the snap benefits that they’ve gutted by the attacks on workers’ rights, and the gutting of the National Labor Relations Board by all the attacks on housing and equity, and all the ways in which this government has been completely repurposed for the billionaire class at the expense of workers,” added Chris Dols of the Federal Unionist Network.
As they marched down Fifth Avenue on Sunday past Trump Tower, they denounced the killing of 80 civilians in Venezuela in order to remove Nicolas Maduro las week, saying the Trump administration violated international law. The messaging accused the Trump administration of waging wars at home and abroad that they cannot support.
No arrests were made on Sunday.
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