{"id":110225,"date":"2026-01-08T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:24:24","slug":"orlando-protesters-rally-after-deadly-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110225\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando protesters rally after deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 40 protesters demonstrated outside city hall in Orlando after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The protesters said they felt like they had to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The peaceful rally lasted about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; A few dozen people in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/orlando\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Orlando;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Orlando<\/a> protested the deadly shooting of a woman in Minnesota involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators said they were outraged. Protesters said they wanted the Trump Administration and ICE to hear their message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Difficult to ignore&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corey Hill was one of the organizers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is a moment that\u2019s very difficult to ignore, and it\u2019s pretty impressive to see people mobilizing so quickly both here and in cities all around the country,&#8221; Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the rally in Orlando came together in about an hour\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I\u2019m very happy to see so many people here coming out on basically like an hour\u2019s notice to stand up for basic principles of human decency,&#8221; Hill said.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters held signs calling for the abolition of ICE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#039;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened today in Minneapolis can happen anywhere,&#8221; Fidel Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is going on in our country where this is allowed,&#8221; Charlene Westman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to be out here even more,&#8221; Rachel Gardiner said. &#8220;Even more often. Louder. And just never give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The other side<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Department of Homeland Security said the agent followed training and said it was a justified shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DHS posted the following statement online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them\u2014an act of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Protesters in Orlando said they will return to the streets as necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FOX 35 News spoke with protesters and used information from DHS to file this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief About 40 protesters demonstrated outside city hall in Orlando after an ICE agent shot and killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56311,56313,11611,35833,139,141,140,56312,8834],"class_list":["post-110225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-corey-hill","tag-ice-officer","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-minneapolis","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-peaceful-rally","tag-protesters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}