Anti-ICE Protests Are
Spreading to Small-Town
America
واركلال
COUNTY
COURT LICUSE
NO ICE
'¡CE OUT' FOR GO OB
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Anti-ICE demonstrators hold placards during the "ICE
Out for Good" protest outside of the Columbia County Courthouse in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 10.
The demonstration was part of a national weekend of protest in the United States after a federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis.
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The anti-ICE protests sparked by the killing of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent are spreading beyond major cities to small-town America.
Protesters took to the streets of communities
from Black Mountain in North Carolina to Fort Bragg, California, as well as Minneapolis, Port-land, and other big cities over the weekend, days after Renee Nicole Good—a U.S. citizen and a mother of three-was shot and killed by an ICE officer in the Minnesota city.
While federal officials have portrayed the shooting as an act of "self-defense," accusing Good of trying to run over the agent with her car, video footage of the incident appears to contradict that account, and local leaders have strongly disputed the Trump Administration's claims. The incident, and the shooting of two other people in Portland by Border Patrol agents just a day after Good was killed, have renewed public outrage over the Trump Adm
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