A big hen puppet crafted at Within the Coronary heart of the Beast Puppet and Masks Theatre in Minneapolis is carried down Lake Avenue throughout a march demanding ICE’s elimination from Minnesota on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026.
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Individuals have been taking to the streets nationwide this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement techniques following the dying of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old girl who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this week.
At the very least 1,000 occasions throughout the U.S. had been deliberate for Saturday and Sunday, in accordance with Indivisible, a progressive grassroots coalition of activists serving to coordinate the motion it calls “ICE Out For Good Weekend of Motion.”
Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of Indivisible, stated persons are coming collectively to “grieve, honor these we have misplaced, and demand accountability from a system that has operated with impunity for much too lengthy.”
“Renee Nicole Good was a spouse, a mom of three, and a member of her group. She, and the handfuls of different sons, daughters, mates, siblings, mother and father, and group members who’ve been killed by ICE, must be alive at this time,” Greenberg stated in a press release on Friday. “ICE’s violence shouldn’t be a statistic, it has names, households, and futures connected to it, and we refuse to look away or keep silent.”
Massive crowds of demonstrators carried indicators and shouted “ICE out now!” as protests continued throughout Minneapolis on Saturday. A type of protestors, Cameron Kritikos, informed NPR that he’s fearful that the presence of extra ICE brokers within the metropolis might result in extra violence or one other dying.
“If extra ICE officers are deployed to the streets, particularly a spot right here the place there’s very clear public opposition to the terrorizing of our neighborhoods, I am nervous that there is going to be extra violence,” the 31-year grocery retailer employee stated. “I am nervous that there are going to be extra clashes with regulation enforcement officers, and on the finish of the day I believe that is not what anybody needs.”
Demonstrators in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026.
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The night time earlier than, a whole bunch of metropolis and state cops responded to a “noise protest” in downtown Minneapolis. An estimated 1,000 folks gathered Friday night time, in accordance with Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, and 29 folks had been arrested.
Individuals demonstrated outdoors of inns the place ICE brokers had been believed to be staying. They chanted, performed drums and banged pots. O’Hara stated {that a} group of individuals break up from the principle protest and started damaging lodge home windows. One police officer was injured from a bit of ice that was hurled at officers, he added.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the acts of violence however praised what he stated was the “overwhelming majority” of protesters who remained peaceable, throughout a morning information convention.
“To anybody who causes property harm or places others in peril: you can be arrested. We’re standing as much as Donald Trump’s chaos not with our personal model of chaos, however with care and unity,” Frey wrote on social media.
Commenting on the protests, Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin informed NPR in a press release, “the First Modification protects speech and peaceable meeting — not rioting, assault and destruction,” including, “DHS is taking measures to uphold the rule of regulation and defend public security and our officers.”
Good was fatally shot the day after DHS launched a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota set to deploy 2,000 immigration officers to the state.
In Philadelphia, police estimated about 500 demonstrators “had been cooperative and peaceable” at a march that started Saturday morning at Metropolis Corridor, Philadelphia Police Division spokesperson Tanya Little informed NPR in a press release. And no arrests had been made.
In Portland, Ore., demonstrators rallied and lined the streets outdoors of a hospital on Saturday afternoon, the place immigration enforcement brokers deliver detainees who’re injured throughout an arrest, reported Oregon Public Broadcasting.
A man and girl had been shot and injured by U.S. Border Patrol brokers on Thursday within the metropolis. DHS stated the capturing occurred throughout a focused automobile cease and recognized the motive force as Luis David Nino-Moncada, and the passenger as Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, each from Venezuela. As was the case of their assertion about Good’s deadly capturing, Homeland Safety officers claimed the federal agent acted in self-defense after Nino-Moncada and Zambrano-Contreras “weaponized their automobile.”
