{"id":93457,"date":"2026-01-08T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:19:31","slug":"speaker-addresses-manhattan-crowd-protesting-deadly-ice-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93457\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Addresses Manhattan Crowd Protesting Deadly ICE Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTOvxCcjowg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thousands of New Yorkers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thousands of New Yorkers<\/a> gathered on the night of Wednesday, January 7, to protest in solidarity with Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old woman by an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Kevin Whelan shows a huge crowd of protestors gathered at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan. A speaker is heard talking to the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBut we have to be clear that Renee\u2019s killers weren\u2019t just the ones wearing ICE uniforms today. Renee\u2019s murder is state-sanctioned murder!\u201d the speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators can also be heard jeering US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a statement posted to social media, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/2008958123092979817?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>: \u201cICE 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. An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QABt2PLIG14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:called;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">called<\/a> the DHS version of events \u201cbulls***t\u201d and said the woman was shot by an ICE agent \u201crecklessly using power.\u201d Frey <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MayorFrey\/status\/2008945355925364762?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:demanded;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">demanded<\/a> that ICE leave Minneapolis immediately. Credit: Kevin Whelan via Storyful<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of New Yorkers gathered on the night of Wednesday, January 7, to protest in solidarity with Minneapolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[153,44011,44012,44010,9198,44009,359,75,84,83,4801,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-93457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-foley-square","10":"tag-ice-agent","11":"tag-ice-officer","12":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","13":"tag-kevin-whelan","14":"tag-lower-manhattan","15":"tag-manhattan","16":"tag-manhattan-headlines","17":"tag-manhattan-news","18":"tag-minneapolis","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}