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Police arrested astatine slightest respective demonstrators Saturday (February 7, 2026) extracurricular a national gathering successful Minneapolis, breaking up a protestation marking the one-month day of a Minnesota woman's death astatine the hands of an migration officer.
Renee Good was killed connected January 7 arsenic she was driving distant from migration officers successful a Minneapolis neighbourhood. Her decease and that of different Minneapolis resident, Alex Pretti, conscionable weeks aboriginal person stoked outrage nationwide implicit President Donald Trump's migration crackdown.
Scores of protesters gathered crossed the thoroughfare from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building astir midday, throwing bottles and enactment toys astatine a enactment of constabulary guarding the property. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that officers arrested a fistful of protesters aft the assemblage starting throwing chunks of ice. A lawman was deed successful the head, and a squad vehicle's windshield was smashed, according to a connection the paper obtained from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.
Police declared the gathering unlawful and ordered protesters to leave. Many complied, the Star Tribune reported, but astir 100 remained successful a standoff with deputies, authorities troopers and authorities conservation officers.
No 1 from the sheriff's bureau responded to email, voicemail and substance messages from The Associated Press connected Saturday day requesting a transcript of the connection and inquiring astir however galore radical were arrested, whether anyone was injured and what led up to the arrests.
Meanwhile connected Saturday (February 7, 2026), hundreds gathered connected a snow-covered tract successful a Minneapolis parkland to honour Good and Pretti. Event organisers echoed caller criticisms of the migration crackdown crossed Minnesota, characterising it arsenic a national occupation.
A Lakota spiritual leader, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, led a ceremonial astatine the beforehand of the assemblage filled with radical holding signs and American flags. Others shared euphony and poesy to honour the 2 radical who person go cardinal figures successful the polarizing migration statement successful caller weeks.
A national migration serviceman changeable and killed Good, a 37-year-old parent of three, successful her car successful Minneapolis connected January 7. Three agents surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV connected a snowy thoroughfare a fewer blocks from Good's home. Bystander video amusement an serviceman approaching the SUV stopped crossed the mediate of the road, demanding the operator unfastened the doorway and grabbing the handle.
The conveyance began to propulsion guardant and a antithetic ICE serviceman lasting successful beforehand of it pulled his limb and instantly fired astatine adjacent range, jumping backmost arsenic the conveyance moved toward him. The Trump medication has painted Good arsenic a home violent who tried to tally implicit an serviceman with her vehicle. State and section officials person rejected that characterisation.
Pretti was killed connected January 24 during a scuffle with migration officers connected the street. Bystander video shows a half-dozen officers took Pretti to the ground. One spotted Pretti's gun, which helium was licensed to carry, and shouted “He's got a gun.” Two officers past opened fire.
The Trump administration's borderline czar, Tom Homan, connected Wednesday announced the medication would propulsion 700 migration officers from Minnesota — astir a 4th of the officers deployed to the authorities — aft authorities and section officials agreed implicit the past week to cooperate by turning implicit arrested immigrants. Homan did not accidental erstwhile the medication would extremity its crackdown successful the state, however.
Good's wife, Becca Good, issued a connection Saturday saying that the migration effort is hurting radical successful Minneapolis and nary 1 knows their names.
“You cognize my wife's sanction and you cognize Alex's name, but determination are galore others successful this metropolis being harmed that you don't cognize — their families are hurting conscionable similar mine, adjacent if they don't look similar mine,” Becca Good said successful the statement. “They are neighbors, friends, co-workers, classmates. And we indispensable besides cognize their names. Because this shouldn't hap to anyone.”
