Demonstrators took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to stage a protest rally against the nationwide operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The protesters gathered near Pershing Square at 2 pm local time, holding signs and denouncing the ICE Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good earlier in the week.
The demonstration is part of more than 1,000 rallies planned nationwide this weekend against the US government’s widespread deportation of immigrants.
The fatal shooting of the mother of three by an ICE agent on Wednesday has triggered mass protests in major cities and some towns across the United States.
The shooting came soon after some 2,000 ICE agents were deployed in Minneapolis-St. Paul area in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called its largest operation ever.
In a similar DHS-related incident, a US Border Patrol agent in Portland, Oregon, shot and wounded a man and woman in their car after an attempted vehicle stop on Thursday.
The incidents escalated existing tensions over the US government’s violent anti-immigration policy.
A coalition of progressive and civil rights groups, including Indivisible and the American Civil Liberties Union, took action against the move on a nationwide scale, planning more than 1,000 protest events under the banner “ICE Out For Good” on Saturday and Sunday.
Source: Press TV
