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 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 was continuing to investigate the shooting of Porter and now his family would like to loop in the five-member commission, which sets policies and oversees LAPD operations, working with the police chief.<\/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
Porter\u2019s mother, Franceola Armstrong, spoke to the council and described her son as a man with a wonderful soul and big heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve this,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cHe was on his way back. He didn\u2019t even get to pop the champagne. He didn\u2019t get to say goodbye. I just want to touch my baby one last time, kiss his face and hold him. I don\u2019t have him. His life was snatched from us. Lord, please, I just wish you could get justice for my child.\u201d<\/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 Porter on New Year\u2019s Eve \u201care not isolated incidents.\u201d<\/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
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","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":131704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[67496,1586,410,48,52,51,47,50,49,236,5250,67497],"class_list":["post-131703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-activists","tag-commission","tag-fatally","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-police","tag-shot","tag-speak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131703","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=131703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}