About 150 people held a vigil in Cortez on Saturday in remembrance of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman shot dead in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Her killing by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spawned more than 1,200 protests across the country, according to published reports.
At the Cortez vigil, organizers read the names of 38 people they said have been killed by ICE, and some people in the crowd came forward to denounce the aggressive immigration crackdown nationwide. Participants, most of whom were wearing black, then stood along Main Street. Many held signs with messages such as “Renee Good, ICE Bad” and “Stop ICE Terror.”
Since her killing, demonstrations have been held in a number of Colorado cities, including Denver, Aurora, Boulder, Steamboat Springs, Grand Junction, Montrose, and Durango, where the Durango Herald reported some 500 people protested on Friday.
Two other, earlier protests in Durango that were held in front of the ICE facility there prompted federal agents to use pepper spray and pepper bullets against the demonstrators. The larger incident took place last October and was triggered by the detention of a family of asylum-seekers. The more recent one was on Jan. 2 in response to apprehensions of a longtime Durango resident and a resident of Mancos.
