WARSAW — Residents have organized a protest for Saturday in Warsaw over the shooting death of a woman in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

The Kosciusko County Democratic Party is organizing Saturday’s 2 p.m. protest outside of the Warsaw Community Public Library at the corner of Center and North Detroit Street.

The “Justice For Good’ protest is in response to the killing of a 37-year-old Renee Good who was shot in the face and died while attempting to drive away from ICE agents during a protest.

More than 1,000 protests were reported across the country over the weekend in response to Good's death, and more unrest was reported Monday in Minneapolis.

The Associated Press reports that days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday, a day after federal authorities used tear gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists and state and local leaders sued to fight the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

Confrontations between federal agents and protesters stretched throughout the day and across multiple cities on Monday.

Representatives of the Trump Administration defended the shooting of Good while many others contend the ICE agent was not in imminent danger.

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Indiana leaders on Friday met with Vice President JD Vance for the third time as they work to secure support for mid-cycle, partisan redistricting. They remained tight-lipped about the meeting’s contents as protesters rallied in opposition.

Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, called it a “productive” and “fruitful” discussion. He said his caucus hadn’t yet made a choice, but hinted an answer to the redistricting question could come soon.

“Obviously, the conversation was about redistricting,” he told reporters. “We talked a lot about that — pros and cons — and so, no decisions were made. But we’re going to work on that and hopefully have a decision very soon.”

President Donald Trump is pushing GOP-led states like Indiana to redraw maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections to ensure a Republican majority in the U.S. House for the rest of his second term. Redistricting is typically only done after the decennial census.

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Indiana’s current map, drawn in 2021, is 7-2 Republicans. Democrats hold seats in northwest and central Indiana

House Speaker Todd Huston declined to talk to reporters but released a statement thanking Vance “for again talking with our caucus members and facilitating an open dialogue on this important topic. It means a lot to us that he is willing to spend time in our state, personally communicating with and answering questions from Hoosier lawmakers. We had another productive conversation today and we’ll keep discussing this within our caucus and with the Hoosiers we represent as we come to a decision soon.”

Upon leaving the Statehouse, Sen. Mike Gaskill, R-Pendleton, shared that he was fully in support of new maps, regardless of consequences or constituent opposition.

“I would rather be courageous and take a stand and do something that I know a fair amount of voters are going to say, ‘You know what? We’re not going to vote for you.’ I would rather lose my seat than my grandkids lose their country,” he said.

Gaskill said he doesn’t feel pressure from higher-ups. He knew the debate was coming when Texas and California moved to change their maps.

“We ought to do our part … if one side’s fighting the other side can’t be doing ‘rock paper scissors,'” Gaskill said. “You’re going to get run over.”

When asked about the Senate Republican caucus’ delay, Bray said his members like to be “thoughtful and contemplative and understand the issue very well” before coming to a decision.

He declined to share meeting specifics and didn’t say whether there were enough votes to support new maps.

“We’ve been working on this for a while, so we’d like to come to a resolution fairly shortly,” he concluded.

Senate Minority Leader Shelli Yoder, D-Bloomington, offered a more blunt analysis.

“They don’t have the votes, currently,” she said during a joint news conference with House Minority Leader Phil GiaQuinta.

“There’s something happening here because (otherwise) the vice president wouldn’t have to come here — twice now — in order to twist some arms,” said GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne.

Protesters bring props to VP’s visit

The Democratic leaders spoke following another energetic rally at the Indiana Statehouse.

Protesters lined the dual marble staircases and filled the space in between, raising anti-redistricting signs and following speakers’ chants. One protester — in drag as Trump — puppeteered drag versions of Vance and Braun, who writhed upon the marble floors.

Some assembled earlier at the library, jeering as Vance’s motorcade rolled in. Law enforcement officers urged them away from the security perimeter.

Other protesters arrived even sooner.

A quartet of Hoosiers set up a reclining couch early Friday morning on the sidewalk in front of the Indiana Statehouse as a “gift” to the vice president, who was subject to a false claim involving couches based on a passage from his memoir.

Indiana resident Cassie Jackson said she hoped the prop would stop Vance from pressuring state lawmakers further on the topic of redistricting.

“You can have the couch as a gift,” Jackson said. “But please, don’t come back.”

She said the group transported the couch on a car roof and set it up before lawmakers arrived. The group recounted how one Republican senator, on his way in, privately told them that he wouldn’t be voting in favor of new maps.

Jackson’s friend was unconvinced, saying, “These guys lie to us all the time.”

“They’re here to be persuaded so they can go back to their constituents and say, ‘Oh, we were going to say we’re Indiana boys and we’re tough. But then JD came in and he told us what’s what,’” Charlie Spears said. “… I can’t believe a guy from Ohio is going to come in here and tell Indiana how to vote.”

It was Vance’s second trip to Indiana in about two months, as the map-drawing push stalled.

At least two Hoosier congressmen joined: U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, who flew with Vance on Air Force Two, and 3rd District Rep. Marlin Stutzman.

Vance also met with Braun, who thanked the vice president for taking the time to visit Indiana in a statement posted to X.

“I appreciated the thoughtful discussion about how our state is serving Hoosiers through common-sense and strong leadership,” he wrote. “We discussed redistricting and the importance of ensuring fair representation for every Hoosier. I look forward to continuing our partnership to keep Indiana — and America — moving in the right direction.”

The meeting was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at the nearby Indiana State Library. Lawmakers began streaming into the underground tunnels of the government campus center — and underwent security scans by Secret Service agents — just after 9 a.m.

Members of the Braun administration exited the tunnels at 11 a.m. Indiana Senate Republicans began filtering out from their gathering at 12:20, while the House GOP caucus left at 1:40 p.m.

Some lawmakers were enthusiastic about the visit, including Rep. Ryan Lauer, R-Columbus, who extolled Vance’s virtues and called him an “absolutely wonderful family man.”

The vice president last visited Indiana in August to meet with Braun, Bray and Huston and rally support for early redistricting. Neither the governor nor legislative leadership signaled any firm commitment to the proposal at the time.

Later that month, dozens of GOP lawmakers from Indiana’s House and Senate traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Vance and other federal officials about a variety of topics, including redistricting. Bray and Huston met in person with Trump during that visit.

Braun has since repeatedly floated the idea of a November special session for early redistricting. The next regularly scheduled legislative session will kick off in January, around the same time that Indiana’s window to file congressional bids opens.

Multiple polls — including one released in August and one this week — have found that the majority of Hoosiers oppose early redistricting.

Editor Niki Kelly contributed to this report.

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WARSAW — Numerous supporters of Donald Trump on Saturday tried to disrupt the No Kings protest, which turned out to likely be one of the biggest protests organized in Warsaw in decades.

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Several hundred people lined up along both sides of North Detroit Street, and eventually rally-goers could be seen at all four corners of the Detroit-Center intersection while more then staked out spots at the Main Street intersection to the south.

The rally was excessively boisterous as horns blared approval to the responders' signs, which decried what many see as Trump’s autocratic tendencies.

The Warsaw protest was one of hundreds of No Kings rallies that drew huge crowds and coincided with a

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massive military parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the US Army's 250th birthday and happened to fall on Trump’s 79th birthday.

85-year-old James Miller, a military veteran visiting from Florida, arrived with his cane and a protest sign along with his wife, Barbara.

“Myself, I’m a veteran and I feel very strongly that what’s happening in Washington is not right. It’s not what I fought for, I’ll tell you that,” Miller said. “So to heck with them.”

“If you see what’s coming out of there in Washington in this day and age, it makes an old man cry,” Miller said.

The protest was organized online by Thomas Skeens, an area resident.

“It’s a great turnout. I wanna say thanks to Donald Trump. He made it possible. Everything he’s doing is making people come out. It’s not me, it’s not Democrats. It’s not anybody. People are sick of it,” Skeens said.

Elizabeth Coquillard, an area resident who serves as the outreach director for the Indiana Libertarian Party, was among the protesters. 

She is upset with Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops into Los Angeles to quell protests over the ongoing immigration crackdown

“I wish there were more National Guard people out here today asking the National Guard not to break their oath. I truly believe that’s what they're doing. I don’t feel Trump has a good reason to send in the National Guard, especially without the governor’s consent,” Coquillard said.

“We’re here for the little guys,” she added

For the first 90 minutes, many motorists created a near-constant flood of honking horns and many offered a thumbs-up as they drove past. But there were also an occasional few who displayed a middle finger in disapproval.

The raucous, noisy environment continued for nearly three hours.

But eventually, a few pickup trucks carrying Trump signs began circling the protest area, a tactic seen at previous protests earlier this year in Warsaw.

That coincided with two small groups of Trump supporters on foot who then began parading along the sidewalks with Trump flags in an attempt to agitate rally-goers.

Shortly before 5 p.m., numerous police cars arrived in the adjacent CVS parking lot, and two groups — mostly teens — with Trump flags were urged to disperse. One officer told the counterprotesters that it was clear they were trying to agitate the crowd and urged them to use the vacant corner on Main Street in order to keep the peace.

Another group of counterprotesters stood on the southeast corner of Detroit and Center. Those included a couple who wore shirts supporting Trump and and former presidential candidate, Ross Perot. Another guy held a sign reading "Idiots."

As the protest began to thin out, a dozen or so Trump supporters, one carrying a vulgar Joe Biden flag, stood along the west side of Detroit Street alongside No Kings protesters.

Aside from a few terse words, the two sides appeared to remain civil as several police officers continued to watch from across the street.

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