Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Carrboro Saturday afternoon to take part in a national weekend of protest against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department, an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman, and President Donald Trump’s administration’s mass deportation efforts.
Community members lined the sidewalks of West Weaver Street to hold signs and walked a roughly half-mile loop from Carrboro Town Commons to Weaver Street Market in solemn protest of the agency’s recent actions and lack of accountability for their violence. The group stayed peaceful and attempted to not interrupt traffic, meaning the lines would queue as people waited at crosswalks to cross the road’s intersections with West Main Street and North Greensboro Street. A volunteer at the march told Chapelboro she counted roughly 480 people who took part in at least one lap of the road.
The event, organized by the Orange County chapter of Indivisible, aligned with other demonstrations held in the wake of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good from point-blank range in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. The grassroots, national, anti-Trump organization described it as the “ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action,” which follows in the footsteps of Indivisible’s “No Kings” and “Hands Off” national days of protest against the Trump administration’s policies and in support of both democracy and progressive ideals.
Participants in Saturday’s demonstration line the sidewalk of Weaver Street waiting to cross at the North Greensboro Street intersection. (Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
Two participants of Saturday’s vigil sit on the sidewalk with signs as others across the street line up to begin the loop from Carrboro Town Commons to Weaver Street Market and back. (Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
Saturday’s demonstration in Carrboro followed several other impromptu gatherings in the Triangle decrying ICE’s actions. Protests in downtown Durham happened on Thursday and Friday nights, briefly shutting down traffic, while a weekly protest at the corner of East Franklin Street and Elliott Road in Chapel Hill drew many more participants on Thursday night than normal.
Trisha Lester, who is the founder of Indivisible’s Orange County chapter, led the line of marchers on Saturday and held an Indivisible sign alongside another volunteer. The long-time Chapel Hill resident said she joined a national Indivisible Zoom call after more details emerged from Good’s death that was scheduled to mourn her and channel emotions into a plan of action to speak out against ICE.
“There were 35,000 people from across the country on [the call],” Lester said. “And given the events of the last week, which were all pretty horrendous, people were upset and wanting to know what they could do. And Indivisible [leaders] said, ‘We need to be mad. We need to take our anger, nonviolently to the streets.'”
Those walking in the “procession of unity,” as described by organizers, held signs with messages like “Abolish ICE,” “No Secret Police,” “Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Racists,” and “Renee Nicole Good was good.” Orange County resident Brian Cunningham-Rhoads held a handmade sign that said “Apply Heat, Melt ICE” as he walked. While finishing his third lap and beginning his fourth, he said he believes “applying heat” includes reading independent news sources about national, flashpoint issues and events as well as being active in every single election.
“It just feels like there’s so much at stake right now,” said Cunningham-Rhoads, “and there’s so many voices that don’t feel comfortable being in this space right now because they feel like they’re under attack, or they’ll have their human rights violated or have their freedom taken away. Honestly, I feel like it’s the very minimal that I could do to raise up those other voices and be another body in the streets to defend a total attack on everything we love.”
Lester said Good and others who have died at the hands of ICE agents recently were top of her mind while marching. She said their brutal tactics and cruelty toward those they were detaining and bystanders alike reflected a bigger problem with the Trump administration and trends she believes threatens the country’s future.
“The fact that ICE is unaccountable to no one is not right,” the Chapel Hill resident said. “We’re a democracy — or, we were a democracy — and what’s happening in this country is Trump seems to think he’s accountable to no one. And, by God, our Supreme Court made it so he [effectively] isn’t.
“We have some Democrats who are standing up with courage, and others who are not doing what they’re supposed to be doing,” Lester added. “It’s the people in the streets that are really commanding attention and saying, ‘This isn’t right, and we won’t stand for it.'”
The ICE agent who shot Good has since been identified as Jonathan Ross and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed Ross activated in self-defense because Good “weaponized” her vehicle. While videos show Good driving her car forward, several aspects of Noem and the federal government’s claims around the incident appear to contradict video footage shared from the scene.
In addition to the national protests, Minneapolis has experienced daily protests against ICE’s actions in the wake of Good’s death — which came as Minnesota was the latest Democratic-led state as the site of major federal immigration enforcement operations. ICE and Border Patrol agents similarly targeted North Carolina in November to do widespread immigration enforcement, which led to dozens of arrests in Charlotte and in the Triangle.
Featured image via Associated Press/LM Otero
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