{"id":127441,"date":"2026-01-17T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127441\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:30:06","slug":"hundreds-of-protesters-in-plano-condemn-recent-ice-shootings-amid-unrest-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127441\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of protesters in Plano condemn recent ICE shootings, amid unrest in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of protesters gathered on the corner of Preston and Parker roads in Plano <\/a>on Saturday afternoon in frigid weather, brandishing signs against ICE and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Protesters waved U.S. flags and cheered as cars honked on the busy intersection. Signs read \u201cICE out,\u201d \u201cAbolish ICE\u201d and \u201cWe have no king.\u201d <\/p>\n

Some donned inflatable costumes: a unicorn, teddy bear and dinosaur.<\/p>\n

Collin County Democratic Party Chair Jeremy Sutka said the protest was originally planned as a No Kings demonstration, but organizers added efforts to speak out against ICE following the fatal shooting of Renee Good.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Good in Minneapolis. The 37-year-old woman was shot in the head in front of a family member in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis. <\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a>, President Donald Trump<\/a> and others in his administration have repeatedly characterized the Minneapolis shooting<\/a> as an act of self-defense and cast Good as a villain, suggesting she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance said the shooting was justified<\/a> and Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was a \u201cvictim of left-wing ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, a federal officer shot another person in the leg<\/a> in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest. <\/p>\n

More than 250 people signed up for the event, according to Sutka, and hundreds huddled in jackets and scarves at the busy Plano intersection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the America we want to live in,\u201d Sutka said. \u201cWe need to make a change. That\u2019s why people are angry. They\u2019re upset.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes a week after hundreds gathered in Fort Worth<\/a> to protest the administration\u2019s deportation push. This is a part of an array of nationwide demonstrations after recent shootings<\/a> involving federal immigration <\/a>officers. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of protesters gathered on the corner of Preston and Parker roads in Plano on Saturday afternoon in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,8042,1724,223,160,162,161,1750],"class_list":["post-127441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas-protests","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}