Protests against ICE scheduled across Texas this weekend
Source: The Hill
01/09/26 8:43 PM ET
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are scheduled across the largest metro areas in Texas this weekend following the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
The video of the shooting shows a woman, identified as Renee Nicole Good, park her car in the middle of a road where ICE agents were located. Two ICE agents confront Good and one tries to open the driver side door. Another agent steps in front of the car while recording the encounter on his cell phone. As Good moves the car, the agent in front fires his gun three times at close range, killing Good.
Federal leaders defended the officer’s actions as self-defense. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good a domestic terrorist. “This goes to show the assaults that our ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every single day,” Noem said on the day of the shooting.
Protests erupted in Minnesota and across the country in reaction to the shooting and responses to it from the federal government. In Texas, a group of protesters chanted outside of an ICE facility in Pflugerville. Some spray-painted and banged on the outside of the building. The Austin Immigrant Rights Action Committee (AIRAC) announced it is holding a protest outside the south entrance of the Texas Capitol building on Friday at 7 p.m. Jake Holtzman, one of the organizers of the group, said AIRAC was formed this month, and Friday night will be its first-ever protest.
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