By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WARSAW — Well over 100 people braved Saturday’s 18-degree temperature for an hour in Warsaw to honor the memory of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a protest in Minnesota recently.
The rally, like many in the past year in Warsaw, was a boisterous event with many motorists honking their horns as they drove past the Warsaw Community Public Library in support of protesters who were lined up along North Detroit Street near Center Street.
Good, who died on Jan. 7, was quickly demonized by the Trump administration as a domestic terrorist while many supporters, pointing to online videos, claimed the ICE agent who shot her multiple times was not in imminent danger as Good attempted to drive away from the Minneapolis protest.
Her death has sparked multiple days of protests in Minneapolis and across the country.
While numerous signs at the Warsaw protest attempted to lighten the mood with puns about ICE, Robert Vermillion’s assessment on the killing of Good was sobering.
He said he’s watched the videos available on social media.
“It’s obvious to me that that guy killed her on purpose. He purposely killed her,” Vermillion said while holding a large American flag.
“They keep trying to hijack this narrative. “We know what happened on Jan. 6, too. We all witnessed it go down … they want to rewrite history, they want to send troops into our cities to attack us,” Vemlliion said. “That’s why I’m here.”
Protest signs also called attention to Trump’s authoritarian proclivities and his actions in Venezuela, as well as his ongoing demands to seize control of Greenland despite strong opposition from most Americans and the North American Trade Organization, which represents much of Europe.
The event included continual patrols by Warsaw police, and it remained peaceful.
Below are photos of Saturday’s protest by News Now Warsaw’s Dan Spalding.
