Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the White House on Saturday to condemn President Donald Trump’s expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations after an agent in Minneapolis fatally shot Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three.
The protest, organized by Refuse Fascism as part of the nationwide “ICE Out for Good Weekend of Action,” began at 1 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House before demonstrators marched along Constitution Avenue to the south side of the complex. Speakers and chanting protesters called for the abolition of ICE and the removal of Trump from office, with demonstrators denouncing the agency as the “new Gestapo” and the administration as a “fascist regime” in the wake of the fatal shooting of Good by an ICE officer during the Trump administration’s latest immigration enforcement operation.
“In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America,” protesters chanted. “Trump must go now. ICE must go now.”