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Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City

Hundreds gathered to peacefully protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good.

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Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City

Hundreds gathered to peacefully protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good.

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.

A protest sign depicting ICE shooting victim Renee Good with the text “Murdered by Trump and ICE.”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Signs say “Abolish ICE” and “Shut down ICE detention camps.”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Signs say “ICE murders! ICE out! Feds out!” and “ICE, get the FUCK out of NYC.”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Signs say “Stand up! Fight back!”, “This is not normal,” and “Selective justice is injustice. Due process now!”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC. Signs read: “NYC teachers say you won’t take our kids away!” “No to fascism,” “Immigrants are New York!” and “Chinga la migra.” A partially cut-off sign says “Stop the deportations!”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC. One sign reads, “ICE out! Feds out!” Another protester’s sign features an image of an angry-looking Hello Kitty and reads, “My father was imprisoned for being Japanese-American. Shut down ICE detention camps”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
A protest sign that reads “Protect each other”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC. One protester’s sign reads, “ICE murders! Hands off our cities!”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. A sign reads, “Renee Nicole Good.”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. A sign reads, “Fuck ICE”
A group of protesters at an anti-ICE protest in NYC following the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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