Roughly 1,000 demonstrators marched through downtown San Antonio on Saturday afternoon to protest last week’s killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Renee Good by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross.
“When they come for one, we have to understand that they’re coming for all of us,” San Antonio Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organizer Ruby Jimenez told the crowd that gathered in Main Plaza before the march. “We’re not going to let that happen.”
Saturday’s protest, organized by progressive groups including the PSL and the anti-Trump 50501 movement, was part of a national day of action that sparked an hundreds of protests in cities nationwide. More are expected Sunday.
Good was killed by ICE officer Ross on Wednesday after he approached her in her vehicle. President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have labeled the dead woman a “domestic terrorist” and accused her of trying to hit Ross with her car.
Video of the incident raises serious questions about the truthfulness of those claims. Others who witnessed the shooting, along with Good’s wife and mother, maintain she was simply trying get around ICE agents and was not part of a broader protest, as White House officials alleged.
Aspiring progressive politicians, including Kristin Hook, a scientist who’s running to represent Texas’ 21st District in Congress as a Democrat, also spoke at San Antonio’s demonstration. They and local activists raised concerns about Trump’s weaponization of ICE in U.S. communities.
“No mother should have to fear being murdered in cold blood by federal agents on U.S. streets,” Hook said, receiving loud applause from the crowd.
Saturday’s demonstration didn’t focus solely on Good’s death, however. Those who spoke and carried signs also aired grievances about Trump’s increasingly authoritarian conduct, the military’s operations in Venezuela and Israel’s ongoing occupation of Gaza.
Another anti-Trump protest is planned for Tuesday, Jan. 20, to mark the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration.
Photos by Stephanie Koithan, Michael Karlis and Sanford Nowlin.
