On January 7, a 37-year-old woman named Renee Good was fatally shot by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer while trying to leaving a protest in Minneapolis. The Trump administration claims the shooting was in self-defense and that Good was a “domestic terrorist,” which is disputed by multiple videos (including the cell phone video taken by the shooter who was filming with one hand while firing his weapon with the other), eyewitnesses, journalists, and family and friends of the victim.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest, and communities are also resisting in other ways: “Know Your Rights” trainings to inform immigrants and refugees as well as allies how to be prepared and what their legal rights are, whistling and blowing car horns to alert neighbors of ICE’s presence, or simply filming and observing ICE encounters – actions which are all constitutionally protected.
Ali Velshi sits down with Minnesota State Representative Aisha Gomez about the killing of a citizen, how the state is responding, and what each of us can do to respond to ICE in our communities.
“We are in a critical moment for our country, for our democracy, and I personally — and the community that I’m a part of — we are committed to showing up for our neighbors, and showing up for each other,” says Rep. Gomez. “This is an authoritarian regime on the march. They are using tactics of intimidation and violence and murder — extrajudicial murder in the streets in order to try and control us, and in order to try and scare us. And we are called on to be courageous, in the face of that threat.”
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