Thousands turn out for protests against ICE around Southern California on Saturday – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Thousands of protesters against President Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics took to the streets across the nation and in Southern California on Saturday, Jan. 10 after a federal officer shot and killed a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis and another agent shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon this week.

Federal officials have said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack officers.

Witnesses and videos posted on social media however, indicated that Renee Good, the woman who was killed in Minneapolis, seemed to be slowly turning her Honda Pilot SUV away from the officers to leave the scene when one officer fired at her through her windshield.

Beaumont residents, from left, Deysi Reyes, Domic, Jordan, Darin and Daxton protest at the intersection of Third and D streets in San Bernardino on Saturday, Jan. 10. The group gathered in response to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good, 37, of Minneapolis. (Photo by Israel J. Carreón Jr., The San Bernardino Sun/SCNG)

The demonstrations held on Saturday were mostly peaceful, but passions ran high. At just before 5 p.m. in downtown Los Angeles, about a dozen protesters who got too close to the gate of the Metropolitan Detention Center along Alameda Street were pepper-sprayed by security officers. More than 100 people remained outside the detention center, and various streets were blocked to traffic.

LAPD issued a dispersal order shortly after 6 p.m. When that failed, officers in riot gear formed a skirmish line and pushed the crowd down Alameda Street. “Several” people were arrested, the police department said on X, including one for alleged battery on a police officer. The details were not immediately available.

In Pasadena, several hundred protesters gathered at the corner of Garfield Avenue and Colorado Boulevard earlier in the day, chanting, “No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!” to the accompaniment of car horns and cheers.

“Only Murderers in the White House,” read a sign.

Pasadena teacher Cynthia Macias, 49, of Altadena said she took to the street to assuage feeling helpless in the face of the Trump administration’s actions. “What can we do? And like Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘We stand together.’ ” It’s what I teach my first graders, be kind and respectful and resolve conflicts with words.”

Jose Madera, director of the Pasadena Community Job Center, led the crowd of protesters demanding “ICE out” of U.S. cities in the shadow of City Hall. Members of the Clergy Community Coalition read the names of 36 people documented to have died in ICE custody and encounters, and led hundreds in a moment of silence.

ICE seems like a secret police force that President Trump is using against his own people, said Pasadena resident Candice Rogers.

“I am hopeful when I engage with others, like today,” Rogers, 53, said. “Other times, I’m laced with anxiety and fear. The decisions this government is making are not being made for the American people.”

State Sen. Sen. Sasha Renee Perez tells the crowd in...

State Sen. Sen. Sasha Renee Perez tells the crowd in Pasadena they need to continue Renee Good’s mission of observing and documenting ICE raids. “Take photos, take videos, because we know the federal government is willing to lie through their teeth to protect their agents. We must fight back,,” she said. (Photo by Anissa Rivera/SCNG)

An Edkins holding up a sign saying “Trust Your Eyes Not Their Lies” during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Tim Rich speaking during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Judy Chu speaking during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

The crowd in attendance during ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Donna Sider, Thomas Dupre, Braden Hoffman, Aidan Rajowski, Sadie Cowing, Jennifer Freund, Susan Wong and Kate Bangs holding up signs of White House members during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Noel Rhodes cosplaying as Donald Trump during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Debra Lemonds holding up a “ X Out Fascism” sign during an ICE protest at One Colorado Blvd in Pasadena California on Jan.10th 2026. (Photo by Connor Terry, Contributing Photographer)

Demonstrators gather in Pasadena on Saturday, Jan. 10, to protest the fatal shooting by an ICE officer of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, in Minneapolis. (Photo by Anissa Rivera/SCNG)

Protests were held across the country on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, including in San Bernardino, where people came out to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in front of the San Bernardino City Hall. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Protests were held across the country on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, including in San Bernardino, where people came out to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Angela Wilkinson protests on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in front of the San Bernardino City Hall. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

Monte and Lisa Butler take a selfie in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, where people came out to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations by the San Bernardino City Hall. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

A protester makes a sign on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in San Bernardino, where people came out to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations by the San Bernardino City Hall. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

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Indivisible, a social movement organization that formed to resist the Trump administration, said hundreds of protests were scheduled in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other states. Many were dubbed “ICE Out for Good” using the acronym for the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Indivisible and its local chapters organized protests in all 50 states last year.

In downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, thousands of people converged on Pershing Square at the corner of 5th Street and Olive Street and then marched through the streets.

Demonstrators held both American and Mexican flags and signs, among them: “Money for people’s needs. Not the war machine,” “From Los Angeles to Minneapolis stop ICE terror,” and “Abolish ICE.” Chants included “No Justice, No Peace. no ICE on our streets,” “Whose streets? Our streets,” and “No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here.”

Marisa Oste of Whitter, holding an American flag, said she was alarmed that the U.S. is forgetting how the country was founded.

“It was founded by immigrants, built by immigrants, improved by immigrants, and that immigrants are integral members of our community,” said Oste, 46. “Their rights are not being respected, their work is not being respected.”

A recent video that moved Oste showed two young men working at a Target in Minneapolis who were detained by federal agents at their job.

“They were U.S. citizens, and they had their passports on them, but ICE had them face-first into the dirty ground, handcuffed behind their back, dragged into detention, and they wouldn’t even stop to look at their paperwork,” she said. “The only reason was the color of the skin. That was it, that was it.

“And I feel like we’re a little bit of the frog in the pot of water, like they’re turning up slowly, slowly, slowly, to the point where two citizens can be snatched off the street who have all the right paperwork, they won’t even be considered,” she said. “And so we’re sliding into that boiling water.

“People are not awake,” she added. “It should be everybody here. For every one person here, there’s 100 at home.”

A protester gestures during a demonstration calling for an end...

A protester gestures during a demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations and U.S. attacks on Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly)

Protesters gather during a demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations and U.S. attacks on Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly)

A protester stands during a demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations and U.S. attacks on Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly)

A protester speaks during a demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations and U.S. attacks on Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly)

A woman holds a sign depicting an image of a weeping statue of liberty during a protest outside the Tesla showroom against immigration enforcement and U.S. oil interests, in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

People protest outside the Tesla showroom against immigration enforcement and U.S. oil interests, in San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Protesters chant during a demonstration against ICE and the recent killing of Minnesota resident Renee Good on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at the corner of Crown Point Drive and Ingraham St. Pacific Beach. About 250 people joined the protest. (Sandy Huffaker / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Hundreds protest the killing of Renee Good and the policies of the Trump administration on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026 in El Cajon, CA. (Zoë Meyers / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

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With San Bernardino City Hall as a backdrop, a group of some 100-150 protesters occupied the intersection of Third and D streets.

The gathering was organized by Andy Fuentes, 14, a San Bernardino High School freshman and member of Indivisible.

“It just keeps getting worse day by day,” the teenage leader said. “When we see ICE kill American citizens, that’s not right. That’s what we’re here to say. We’re here saying ICE needs to get out for good.”

Beaumont residents Deysi Reyes, her husband, and her three sons joined the protesters so they could be the “voice” of immigrants, the couple said.

Deysi Reyes herself, at one point in her life, was undocumented and lived in a constant state of fear, she said. She said she sees Good’s death at the hands of an ICE officer as a failure of justice and law, and as an extension of the same fear she felt as an undocumented person.

Despite this, she said she believes younger generations should learn to practice empathy toward all — a lesson she hopes her children take to heart.

“It’s important for them to know that there are people that need help. We could be their voice for them. We have to change the world, but we start within ourselves,” Deysi Reyes said.

San Bernardino Council member Treasure Ortiz, who was among the protesters, said ICE’s actions in Minneapolis affect every American.

“Anytime American citizens are being shot and killed on our streets, it affects all of us, regardless of your status. It’s a human rights issue not to be murdered for standing up for other people,” Ortiz said.

Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin have said the officer who shot Good was justified in firing his gun.

“Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman,” Vance said. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense.”

In addition to observing that videos have indicated otherwise, some law enforcement officials and experts around the nation have stated publicly that an officer should not position himself in front of a moving vehicle or shoot into one. But exactly where the officer was positioned remains in dispute.

Also on Saturday, relatives of a man who was fatally shot by an off-duty federal agent in Northridge and civil rights advocates planned to conduct a candlelight vigil in Carson in his memory, as well as to honor Good’s life.

Keith Porter, 43, was fatally shot shortly after 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 in the 17700 block of Roscoe Boulevard, near White Oak Avenue, by an unidentified agent. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying the agent “bravely responded to an active shooter situation” and “exchanged gunfire with” Porter.

Local activists, however, said Porter was not an active shooter, although he had been firing a weapon into the air to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Najee Ali, the director of Project Islamic Hope and one of the vigil’s organizers, said the shootings of Good and Porter “are not isolated incidents.

“They reflect a dangerous pattern of excessive force, poor judgment, and a lack of accountability that is costing innocent people their lives,” Ali said in a statement. “We are coming together to mourn, to demand truth and to call for justice.”

The vigil was set for 5 p.m. in Carson Park.

At least two protests were held in Orange County on Friday night, in Santa Ana and Fullerton, and other protests were held earlier this week in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

In Santa Ana, KTLA obtained footage showing DHS officers advancing towards the group of protesters before taking two men from the crowd by force. The officers fired what appeared to be pepper balls or rubber bullets at the crowd.

To see where other anti-ICE demonstrations are planned around Southern California this weekend, check the 50501movement website.

The Associated Press and City News Service contributed to this report.

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