More than 150 people gathered Thursday evening at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, some holding candles and flashlights, to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good after family identified her as the woman an ICE officer shot the day before in Minneapolis.
Demonstrators, organized by Centro CSO and Legalization 4 All Network, gathered in prayer along with communities across the country in cities like San Jose, Denver and Minneapolis.
Centro CSO Immigration Committee Co-Chair Verita Topete was “shocked and heartbroken” to hear news of Good’s death. She and many other Legalization 4 All Network members received live updates from Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee members on the ground in Minnesota as events unfolded.
“My immediate thought was, ‘We need to organize an emergency action,’” Topete said. The vigil was deliberately hosted at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood that welcomed immigrant communities for decades.
Organizers called for an end to federal immigration raids. Legalization 4 All Network Co-Chair Sol Marquez told the crowd that federal agents had shot and injured two people in Portland, Oregon, hours earlier. Mariachi music played as the vigil ended and protesters marched to the Metropolitan Detention Center.
“We are so proud that people here in this cold weather are ready to march, and we’re honored we brought up Renee Good’s name here in Los Angeles,” Marquez said. “I couldn’t be prouder of Los Angeles.”
Earlier in the day, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Federal Building in Downtown L.A., and around 80 demonstrators gathered the night before at a protest in Placita Olvera to call for the arrest of the officer who shot Good.
Shootings involving ICE officers have also drawn attention in Southern California in recent months.
An off-duty ICE officer killed a man whom activists identified as Keith Porter Jr. in Northridge on New Year’s Eve. Los Angeles police responded to the apartment complex at 17701 Roscoe Boulevard after reports of someone firing shots into the air. The off-duty ICE officer, who also lived at the complex, also responded and fatally shot the man.
Carlos Jimenez, 25, of Ontario was charged with assaulting a federal officer in November after prosecutors said he reversed his car towards immigration officers and one of the officers shot and injured him. Jimenez’s lawyer said he was following commands from officers to drive away from the area and not trying to attack federal officials.
The shooting left Jimenez with a broken shoulder blade and a bullet still lodged in his shoulder, his lawyer said.
Charges were dropped against TikTok creator Carlitos Ricardo Parias, whom an ICE officer shot during a traffic stop in October. Officers surrounded Parias’ vehicle and fired their weapons shortly after he left his home, striking his elbow. A ricocheting bullet also hit a U.S. deputy marshal in the hand. Parias remains in immigration custody.
Immigration officers smashed Francisco Longoria’s driver’s side window and shot at him as he drove away during a standoff in August in San Bernardino. Later that month, immigration officials arrested Longoria at his home on suspicion of assaulting a federal officer, but a judge dismissed the case later that day, saying there wasn’t evidence to support the charge. Immigration officers then detained him outside a Riverside courthouse and put him in immigration detention.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the shooting of Good, who was driving at the time, unnecessary and denied federal officials’ characterization of the shooting as an act of self defense. He also called on federal officials to leave the Twin Cities amid the Trump administration’s latest immigration operation.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem accused the woman of trying to hit federal officers with her car and said the officer was protecting himself and others from an “act of domestic terrorism.”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation planned another protest Saturday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m. in Pershing Square.
This story includes reporting from City News Service.
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