{"id":263264,"date":"2025-09-29T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:39:49","slug":"dont-be-afraid-vigil-held-in-fort-worth-for-victims-of-shooting-at-ice-facility-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263264\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t be afraid:\u2019 Vigil held in Fort Worth for victims of shooting at ICE facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Candles flickered against the sunset at Marine Park on Friday as local activists gathered for a vigil for the three surviving victims of Wednesday\u2019s shooting at a Dallas ICE facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Mexican flag pinned to a nearby tree flapped in the breeze alongside a sign that read, \u201cSay their names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vigil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2025-09-26\/immigration-advocacy-groups-vigil-victims-dallas-ice-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:was the second one held in Dallas-Fort Worth;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">was the second one held in Dallas-Fort Worth<\/a> this week by the North Texas Brown Berets, an immigrant advocacy group. Activists gathered outside Dallas\u2019 Parkland Hospital on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On one table at Friday\u2019s vigil, candles and flowers sat atop a bed of Brown Beret flyers bearing the instructions for how to report sightings of ICE agents in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAll the narrative that\u2019s being pushed is that it\u2019s agents that are being affected and ICE agents that are being targeted,\u201d said Daniel Matallana, a member of the Brown Berets. \u201cOur people constantly get targeted, they constantly live in fear of even going outside and this is furthering that attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As much as the vigil was in support of the wounded, Matallana said, it was also to show the community that immigrants are not afraid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid,\u201d Matallana said when asked what he\u2019d like the world to know. \u201cThe powers that be are just keeping us down and trying to have us afraid and listening to their lies. The only thing we can do is stand up and stand with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candles flickered against the sunset at Marine Park on Friday as local activists gathered for a vigil for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,137617,137618,137621,137619,7371,7372,15565,137620,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-263264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brown-berets","10":"tag-dallas-ice","11":"tag-dallas-parkland-hospital","12":"tag-daniel-matallana","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-ice-agents","16":"tag-mexican-flag","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115286456594079872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}