Supporters of the family of a man shot dead by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Northridge on New Year\u2019s Eve plan to take their concerns to the Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Keith Porter Jr., 43, was fatally shot shortly after 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 in the 17700 block of Roscoe Boulevard by an unidentified ICE agent. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying the agent \u201cbravely responded to an active shooter situation\u201d and \u201cexchanged gunfire with\u201d Porter.<\/p>\n
The LAPD continued to investigate the shooting of Porter and now his family would like to loop in the the five-member police commission, which sets policies and oversees LAPD operations, working with the police chief, who acts as the board\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n
Local activists said Porter was not an active shooter, although he was firing a weapon into the air to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve \u2014 a practice routinely condemned by law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n
The shooting has led to increased criticism of the ICE presence in the city, and calls for a thorough investigation and the release of the name of the agent who shot Porter.<\/p>\n
Discussion of Porter\u2019s death was renewed following Wednesday morning\u2019s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis by an ICE agent who fired into her moving Honda Pilot SUV during an immigration operation.<\/p>\n
During Friday\u2019s Los Angeles City Council meeting, several members discussed Good\u2019s shooting, with Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez saying Porter\u2019s death should not be forgotten.<\/p>\n
Najee Ali, director of Project Islamic Hope and one of the vigil\u2019s organizers, said last week the shootings of Renee Good on Wednesday and Keith Porter Jr. on New Year\u2019s Eve \u201care not isolated incidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey reflect a dangerous pattern of excessive force, poor judgment and a lack of accountability that is costing innocent people their lives,\u201d Ali said in a statement. \u201cWe are coming together to mourn, to demand truth and to call for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porter\u2019s relatives joined civil rights leaders on Saturday in Carson Park for a candlelight vigil in memory of Porter and Good, a mother of three.<\/p>\n
Indivisible Westside Los Angeles also held a protest Saturday on an overpass over the San Diego (405) Freeway as part of a larger movement called Ice Out For Good. A similar organized action was led by San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible on Garfield Avenue and Colorado Boulevard across from the Paseo Mall in Pasadena.<\/p>\n
The organization previously participated and led protests for No Kings Day on June 14, 2025.<\/p>\n
Multiple protests have been held in downtown Los Angeles in response to Good\u2019s shooting in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Federal officials said an ICE agent fatally shot Good in self-defense, and they accused her of trying to \u201cweaponize\u201d her vehicle and run over law enforcement officers after interfering with an immigration-enforcement operation. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Good\u2019s actions an \u201cact of domestic terrorism\u201d and part of an escalating trend of assaults and attempted attacks on immigration agents nationwide. She said an ICE agent was injured by Good\u2019s vehicle and treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump also defended the actions of the agent who opened fire.<\/p>\n
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Los Angeles stated, \u201cFederal agents are justified in using deadly force to defend their lives. A vehicle is considered a deadly weapon. Do not drive at an officer. It\u2019s dangerous and you will also be charged with a felony.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local officials have condemned the Minnesota shooting. Protests were held Wednesday night and Thursday in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe senseless killing of an innocent and unarmed wife and mother by ICE agents today in Minneapolis is shocking and tragic and should never have occurred,\u201d Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement Wednesday night. \u201cAnd it happened because of the brutal and racist policies of the Trump administration that unleashed these agents in Minneapolis to go after a specific population \u2014 Somalians.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hearts go out to the family of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was the mother of a 6-year-old child. Make no mistake, this new wave of ICE agents descending on American cities is a purposeful campaign of fear and intimidation by the administration meant to distract from Trump\u2019s cruel policies that have tanked the economy and are impacting everyday Americans who can no longer afford basic needs like health care, rent, utilities, medicines, and groceries. Violence like this does not exist in isolation \u2014 it undermines public safety and strikes at the very foundation of our democracy. It\u2019s atrocious, it\u2019s dangerous, and it\u2019s un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called for an immediate investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cOversight Democrats are demanding answers on what happened,\u201d Garcia wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Rep. Derek Tran, D-Garden Grove, called Good\u2019s killing \u201ca profound failure of justice and a grotesque violation of the values we claim to uphold.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am sickened, though tragically no longer surprised, by this display of lethal incompetence,\u201d Tran said in a statement. \u201cUnder this administration, we have seen a consistent, disturbing pattern: the escalation of force.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has nothing to do with the rule of law and everything to do with a culture of cruelty that threatens our communities rather than keeping us safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES (CNS) \u2013 Several more demonstrations against federal immigration authorities are scheduled in the Southland Monday, one day after thousands of people staged marches and other events to protest the recent shooting deaths of a Minneapolis woman and a Northridge man by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIce Out For Good\u201d rallies were scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday in West Hollywood at 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. across from the Pacific Design Center, at noon in Los Angeles at the Home Depot at 2055 N. Figueroa St., and 1 p.m. at Hollywood Boulevard and North Vermont Avenue in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
In Orange County, events were scheduled for 11 a.m. in Laguna Hills, noon in Seal Beach at Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street, 1 p.m. in Huntington Beach in front of City Hall, and 2 p.m. in Irvine at Col. Bill Barber Memorial Park, 4 Civic Center Plaza.<\/p>\n
Further details about the individual events can be found at mobilize.us\/indivisible\/.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, protesters marched through the downtown LA area to City Hall and past the Edward Royball Federal Building. It led to the closure of streets in the area, including Alameda, Temple and Aliso streets.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department issued a dispersal order about 6:30 p.m. for Alameda Street from Aliso to Temple streets, and a police skirmish line moved a group of demonstrators south on Alameda to Temple. One suspect was detained for suspicion of battery on a police officer, the LAPD stated.<\/p>\n
Other demonstrations were held around Southern California, including Long Beach, Woodland Hills and Pasadena.<\/p>\n
As the downtown L.A. protest wound down, relatives of a man who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent in Northridge on New Year\u2019s Eve and civil rights advocates held a candlelight vigil in his memory in Carson that also honored the life of Renee Good, the woman killed in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supporters of the family of a man shot dead by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[33260,1431,67129,62122,48,52,51,47,50,49,66470,4592,67130],"class_list":["post-130627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-anti-ice","tag-family","tag-jr-s","tag-keith","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-outrage","tag-porter","tag-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}