• Triangle Residents Protest ICE
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  • Requiem for a Hoop Dream
  • What’s the Hype About Buc-ee’s?
  • Cary Town Councilmember Responds to Mayor’s Comments
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Good morning, readers.

Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last Wednesday, protests against the agency and the federal government’s immigration policy erupted across the country. 

In the Triangle, those demonstrations began on Thursday night, with rallies in downtown Raleigh and in Durham’s CCB Plaza, where, Justin Laidlaw reports, hundreds of people gathered before marching downtown. 

Good’s killing, said a Durham speaker who organizes with the Party of Socialist Liberation—an activist group with chapters across the country—is “one of the worst crimes committed during the Trump administration.”

Protests continued over the weekend in nearly 1,200 cities and towns across the country, according to a press release from ICE Out for Good, a national coalition of organizations, including Indivisible and the ACLU, that’s grounded in “moral witness, public accountability, and collective care,” and committed to nonviolent organizing.  

The coalition’s goals with the protests include honoring those whose lives were taken by ICE, demanding transparency, accountability, and an investigation into Good’s shooting, calling attention to ICE violence, and pressuring the government to get agents out of communities. 

Read Justin’s story below.

—Jane

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