Dramatic video captures immigration arrest in city on edge after ICE shooting
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents a region with a growing immigrant population, said residents are closely monitoring information from chat groups about where agents are operating.
An ICE officer pepper sprays a protester as agents prepare to make an arrest Sunday.Credit: access point
A woman is consoled on the street after immigration officers broke down the door of a house to arrest one of her relatives on Sunday.Credit: access point
On Sunday, in the neighborhood where Good was killed, whistling people positioned themselves on street corners in the freezing cold, watching for signals from federal agents.
Luis Argueta, spokesman for local civil rights group Unidos MN, said more than 20,000 people have attended various trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election.
“This is a role that people voluntarily choose to take on because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests were largely peaceful, but citizens remained uneasy. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will begin offering remote learning for the next month, responding to concerns that children may not feel safe going to school at a time of high tensions.
Many schools closed last week following Good’s shooting and the ensuing riot.
Questions about who should conduct the investigation
As enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said the investigation into Good’s shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said state officials should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
The photo of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, was displayed in a small memorial at a protest and rally in Seattle on Sunday.Credit: access point
“How can we trust the federal government to do an unbiased, objective, unbiased investigation when they’ve already stated at the beginning of the investigation exactly what they saw, what they thought happened,” Smith told ABC. he said. this week.
The Trump administration defended the officer who shot Good in his car, saying he was protecting himself and his fellow agents and “weaponized” Good’s vehicle.
Acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons defended the officer on Fox News Channel Sunday Briefing.
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“That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not brief, to decide to save his own life and the lives of his fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota would not be necessary “if local jurisdictions work with us to extradite these illegal aliens who are already considered a public safety threat by local residents.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two men by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, sparked dozens of protests over the weekend in cities across the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
