A few hundred people rallied near Cleveland’s West Side Market Friday evening to call attention to the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot Wednesday morning by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer near her home in Minneapolis.
The rally was one of several organized across Greater Cleveland over the last few days by various groups. Longtime Cuyahoga County Democratic Party activist Cindy Demsey, who organized the “No Kings” rally in June to protest Trump administration policies, led the event. Other speakers included civil rights lawyer Subodh Chandra, who argued the videos taken by bystanders in Minneapolis show she was killed for nothing more than exercising her right to protest actions by ICE.
Good’s family acknowledged in a public statement Friday that she monitored and supported protests of immigration activity in her neighborhood. Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, have argued that Good’s actions amounted to stalking and that she endangered ICE officers with her car when she was shot.
Demonstrators at Cleveland’s event on Friday mocked that assertion. However, the tone of the event, which included a short march and a reading of the Good family’s statement about her, was intentionally low-key because organizers said it was meant to be more of a vigil.
