Another anti-ICE protest planned for downtown San Antonio this Saturday

Demonstrators protest at San Antonio City Hall on Wednesday following the shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good by a masked ICE agent. Credit: Michael Karlis

Another anti-ICE protest will take place in downtown San Antonio this Saturday in the wake of the slaying of 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Renee Good by a masked agent.

The demonstration will get underway at 2 p.m. at San Antonio City Hall and is expected to wrap up around 4 p.m, according to a Facebook post for the event. The rally and march is taking place in coordination with actions across the country.

The protest is organized an array of local progressive groups, including the anti-Trump 50501 organization, the Bexar County Democratic Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Dozens of people have confirmed plans to attend since the event was announced Friday morning.

A similar protest, put together Wednesday by the PSL’s San Antonio chapter, drew about 40 people, who held signs, gave speeches and chanted anti-ICE slogans at San Antonio City Hall.

San Antonio’s protest this Saturday comes as demonstrations erupt nationwide to voice outrage at the slaying of Good, who was fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathon Ross on Wednesday while she was behind the wheel of her vehicle.

On Thursday, the FBI blocked Minnesota state law enforcement from investigating the shooting, while Vice President JD Vance has declared that Good was at fault, calling on ICE to go “door to door” to conduct immigration enforcement — a suggestion critics have compared to 1930s Nazi Germany.

In the fallout, Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, blasted ICE as a “rogue agency,” while Democratic State Rep. James Talarico, during a New Braunfels town hall for his U.S. Senate campaign, called for a full investigation into the agency’s operations.

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Another anti-ICE protest planned for downtown San Antonio this Saturday

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