Key Highlights
- In snow-covered Minneapolis, crowds reached into the thousands, chanting: “Fuck ICE, ICE out!” and Renee Nicole Good’s name.
- With planned actions in all 50 states, events will continue into Sunday. Earlier on Saturday, US representatives Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig had attempted to enter a Minneapolis ICE facility, later accusing the agency of unlawfully denying them entry. The Trump administration has sought to claim that Good was part of a shadowy “leftwing network” who was trying “to incite violence” against federal agents, and was probably a “paid agitator”. Here are the key stories at a glance:Protests condemn ICE killing and ‘regime that is willing to kill its own citizensOn a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center.
- They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup, but both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to what they see as Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter. Read the full storyIlhan Omar and two other House members blocked from visiting ICE facility in MinnesotaThree Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota, including House representative Ilhan Omar, were blocked from entering an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center located near Minneapolis on Saturday morning. The incident took place near the Whipple federal building in the Twin Cities as clashes and demonstrations continued after the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis earlier in the week. Read the full storyUS urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitariesThe United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. In a security alert sent out on Saturday, the state department said there were reports of armed members of pro-regime militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence that the occupants were US citizens or supporters of the country. Read the full storyPardoned January 6 defendant runs for Florida political officeA Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and posed for photographs with it during the US Capitol riot is running for county office. Adam Johnson filed to run as a Republican for an at-large seat on the Manatee county commission on Tuesday.
- That was the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riot, when he was photographed smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi’s lectern after the pro-Trump mob’s attack in 2021. Read the full storyTrump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to MinnesotaThe Trump administratio.
