Minneapolis, Minnesota — Tear gas filled the air outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on January 9 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers led two demonstrators away in handcuffs. For hours on Friday, caravans of ICE vehicles passed in front of the pop-up protests, carrying immigrants to be processed for deportation. Amid a mass influx of federal immigration agents to…
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Speaker 1:
Tonight we’re out marching against ICE injustice for Renee Goode and all those who have been unjustly killed and undustly detained. We stand with our neighbors and we stand with one another knowing that the people united will never be defeated. I stand for my friends in Minnesota who are out protesting there and knowing friends that are all around the country speaking out. We can do more than we are doing now. And this is just the bare minimum.
Speaker 2:
We are currently marching through downtown Baltimore. There’s hundreds of us and the police have barricaded the streets to prevent traffic from coming through because we are here to demand justice for Renee Goode and demand that ICE never do what they did to her to anyone else ever again.
Speaker 3:
Well, what happened yesterday in Minneneapolis was disgusting. The Trump administration has this goon squat ice that is out after our own citizens. That’s insane. We’re at war with the Trump administration. So I’m protesting the actions of Trump and the actions of ICE. And I’ll be out here until Trump’s gone. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4:
So we’re marching in Baltimore against the Nazi occupation of ICE in America, stealing our neighbors, taking away vital community members that we really need and love very much. Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized. Teach even your non-political friends about how important this is and just ways to protect each other because we outnumber the fascist completely. And if we
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