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More than 50 observers from the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County lent their voices Thursday morning in San Jose to criticize the action of ICE agents that led to the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Protestors said that Good was doing what they do every day, observing ICE in action, which they assert is constitutionally protected.
Protestors added that they’ve seen a video that shows the moments before Good’s death, reaffirming that, to them, it appeared as if ICE agents were overreacting instead of deescalating. Good was shot while behind the wheel of her SUV.
Yesenia Campos said she experienced that same kind of escalation on Oct. 13 when an ICE agent charged at her before detaining her while she was documenting ICE activity in San Jose.
While the network’s legal counsel advised limiting details, their social media page showed there was activity that day at a San Jose Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Blossom Hill.
“I have experienced unpredictability of these people and we can be as trained as possible as responders but we can’t predict what they will do and what their intentions are,” Campos said. “It definitely puts us at risk but it’s a risk I and many others are willing to take for our community.”
The same message was shared in San Francisco Wednesday night, while people protested outside the city’s ICE headquarters.
Protestors are calling Good’s death a murder, though Homeland Security asserts that the officer acted in self defense.
Another protest is planned for 5 p.m. on Thursday in Pleasanton, where “Indivisible Tri-valley” will gather at Delucchi Park.
The Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara County has about 2,000 trained observers. They said they will continue documenting ICE activity even though they fear that agents are getting more aggressive.
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Kris Sanchez
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