Roughly 1,000 demonstrators marched by way of downtown San Antonio on Saturday afternoon to protest final week’s killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis mom Renee Good by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross.
“After they come for one, we’ve to grasp that they’re coming for all of us,” San Antonio Get together for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organizer Ruby Jimenez instructed the group that gathered in Important Plaza earlier than the march. “We’re not going to let that occur.”
Saturday’s protest, organized by progressive teams together with the PSL and the anti-Trump 50501 motion, was a part of a nationwide day of motion that sparked an tons of of protests in cities nationwide. Extra are anticipated Sunday.
Good was killed by ICE officer Ross on Wednesday after he approached her in her car. President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem have labeled the useless girl a “home terrorist” and accused her of making an attempt to hit Ross along with her automotive.
Video of the incident raises critical questions concerning the truthfulness of these claims. Others who witnessed the taking pictures, together with Good’s spouse and mom, preserve she was merely making an attempt get round ICE brokers and was not a part of a broader protest, as White Home officers alleged.
Aspiring progressive politicians, together with Kristin Hook, a scientist who’s working to symbolize Texas’ twenty first District in Congress as a Democrat, additionally spoke at San Antonio’s demonstration. They and native activists raised considerations about Trump’s weaponization of ICE in U.S. communities.
“No mom ought to should worry being murdered in chilly blood by federal brokers on U.S. streets,” Hook stated, receiving loud applause from the group.
Saturday’s demonstration didn’t focus solely on Good’s loss of life, nonetheless. Those that spoke and carried indicators additionally aired grievances about Trump’s more and more authoritarian conduct, the army’s operations in Venezuela and Israel’s ongoing occupation of Gaza.
One other anti-Trump protest is deliberate for Tuesday, Jan. 20, to mark the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration.
Photographs by Stephanie Koithan, Michael Karlis and Sanford Nowlin.
