On Thursday evening in Manhattan’s Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after an agent fatally shot a woman at close range on Wednesday.
Earlier that day, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan sparked protests outside the building. The day before, Noem had described Good’s actions as an “act of domestic terrorism.” The public video footage, in which Good appears to wave agents past her car and then begin to drive away, paints a starkly different picture.
The moment when an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis was captured on video from multiple angles, prompting widespread outcry and public protests. The shooting occurred about a mile from where George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020.
Thursday’s rally in New York began in Foley Square, followed by the crowd marching west and heading uptown, toward Washington Square Park, then onto the front of the New York Immigration Court at 201 Varick Street. Signs declared, “Silence is compliance,” “ICE out! Feds out!” and “ICE murders! Hands off our cities!” All the while, protesters chanted, “Whose streets? Our streets!”
The Verge’s senior photo editor was there to capture images of the protest.
