{"id":91158,"date":"2026-01-19T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:03:07","slug":"mlk-day-in-philly-protesters-decry-ice-raids-custody-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91158\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Day in Philly: Protesters decry ICE raids, custody deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/politics\/articles\/53878-more-americans-view-ice-shooting-minnesota-unjustified-than-justified-january-9-12-2026-economist-yougov-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll<\/a> from the Economist and YouGov found that the vast majority of people had heard about an ICE agent killing Good, and 50% think it was unjustified, as opposed to 30% who found it justified. The online polling firm Civiqs found that <a href=\"https:\/\/civiqs.com\/results\/abolish_ice?uncertainty=true&amp;zoomIn=true&amp;annotations=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">support for abolishing ICE<\/a> has risen to 43%, the highest it has been since the firm started asking the question in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Torres, a 74-year-old Philadelphia resident who was born in Mexico City, came with a sign that said \u201cVoting will melt ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we vote, we can cut the funds to ICE and save our neighbors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said he attended his first protest when he heard King<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/#new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> speak in Philadelphia in 1967<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-728459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-01-19-e-lee-philadelphia-8th-and-cherry-ice-protest-march-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Bundled against the cold, protesters march through Center City from the Philadelphia Immigration Court at 9th and Market streets to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ofices at 8th and Cherry streets.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Bundled against the cold, protesters march through Center City from the Philadelphia Immigration Court at 9th and Market streets to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices at 8th and Cherry streets. (Emma Lee\/WHYY)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-728458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-01-19-e-lee-philadelphia-8th-and-cherry-ice-protest-embrace-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Protesters embrace in a show of unity during a protest against ICE raids on MLK Day in PHiladelphia\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Protesters embrace in a show of unity during a protest against ICE raids. The protest took place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day outside the ICE offices at 8th and Cherry streets. (Emma Lee\/WHYY)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent poll from the Economist and YouGov found that the vast majority of people had heard about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2443,40857,69,71,70,724],"class_list":["post-91158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ice","tag-mlk-day-of-service","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trump-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}