Photos: Rally for Renee Good in Carson City
Community members gathered to protest ICE, federal immigration policy, and the human cost of enforcement.
One week ago, a federal immigration agent shot and killed American citizen Renee Nicole Good, during ongoing immigration raids in Minneapolis. Just a few days later, the community in Northern Nevada gathered to voice their opposition to the killing and the actions being taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the Trump administration.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told NPR’s Morning Edition this about Good:
“She was a compassionate neighbor trying to be a legal observer on behalf of her immigrant neighbors. That’s what she was doing at the moment of her death. And she was a poet. She was a mom. She was a daughter. And I am deeply saddened by what happened to her and her family.”
More than 1,000 people gathered in Carson City, bringing signs, stuffed animals and empty shoes. The stuffed animals were being collected for charity and chosen because stuffed animals were found in Good’s car after she was killed. The empty shoes represent people who have been disappeared due to ICE’s actions.
Sierra Nevada Ally contributor Mike Escobar attended the rally in Carson City, attended by more than 1,000 people, and shared these photos.
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