'It's wrong.' Protesters hit the streets after deadly ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis
The shooting may have happened hundreds of miles away, but New Haven officials say some Connecticut residents have also experienced violent enforcement tactics used by ICE.
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There are calls for justice after a 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by an Immigration Enforcement Officer in Minnesota.
Thousands of people hit the streets across Connecticut Thursday to protest.
An event organized by the New Haven Immigrants Coalition outside New Haven Superior Court began with a prolonged moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was killed.
Outraged protesters, fueled by anger and frustration, chanted and held up signs calling for ICE to be abolished.
"I think it's outrageous," said Nancy D'Amico, of Branford. "I can't believe where we're at."
Phill Campbell, of the Party for Socialism & Liberation, compared the shooting to the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
"A lot of people are making the correct comparison to the murder of George Floyd that we saw a few years ago," Campbell says. "Only a couple blocks away from where this women was murdered."
The shooting may have happened hundreds of miles away, but New Haven officials say some Connecticut residents have also experienced violent enforcement tactics used by ICE.
"ICE officers are going around with masks; they don't appear to be following a lot of rules here, and there's no one that's interested in holding them accountable," Mayor Justin Elicker says. "That's a problem. We need to come out as a community to say it's wrong."
New Haven says it will continue to push back against what Mayor Elicker calls government overreach and remain a welcoming city for all.
"The way that we're going to stop this kind of activity...is by having hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets saying 'this is just wrong," said Mayor Elicker.
Organizers say more protests are planned for this weekend.
