{"id":507365,"date":"2026-01-11T00:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/507365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:53:38","slug":"downtown-fort-worth-protest-draws-over-300-to-condemn-ice-mourn-renee-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/507365\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Fort Worth protest draws over 300 to condemn ICE, mourn Renee Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT WORTH \u2014 More than 300 people gathered downtown Saturday afternoon to protest the Trump administration\u2019s deportation push, joining demonstrations that have spread nationwide after two shootings this week involving federal immigration<\/a> officers.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good<\/a>, 37, in Minneapolis. A day later in Portland, Ore., a Customs and Border Protection agent shot and wounded two people during a vehicle stop, prompting fresh scrutiny of federal tactics.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> and other administration officials have described the Minneapolis shooting as self-defense, arguing Good used her vehicle as a weapon. Minneapolis\u2019 mayor rejected that account. Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, have condemned the Trump administration\u2019s posture on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

The crowd, bundled in layers against the chilly downtown wind in Fort Worth, carried handmade signs and placards denouncing Trump and immigration authorities. Others held signs celebrating immigration or memorializing Good. <\/p>\n

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Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cFreedom\u201d played over a sound system as people trickled in.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People hold a banner as a speaker talks during an \u2018ICE out of Fort Worth\u2019 protest in downtown Fort Worth, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n

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A coalition of progressive activist groups and immigrant advocates reacted to the shootings by coordinating Saturday\u2019s demonstration \u2014 billed as \u201cICE Out of Fort Worth\u201d \u2014 at General Worth Square, where the group <\/b>started their <\/b>march. <\/p>\n

Oliver Boyett, 21, stood outside the Main Street shop where he works and watched marchers stream through downtown. The crowd looked smaller than at recent \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests he\u2019d seen from the storefront, he said, but he was glad to see people organize quickly and turn out on short notice after the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an abuse of power,\u201d he said, tucked into his shop\u2019s recessed doorway to shield himself from the wind. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing people suffer from this abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sgt. Paul Vega, a department spokesperson, said police would be monitoring the demonstration and additional officers were assigned to the area to assist with traffic management, crowd safety and coordination.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations this week in Dallas<\/a> and Fort Worth come as immigration enforcement has picked up in North Texas under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

A Dallas Morning News analysis<\/a> of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that agents arrested about 12,100 people from Jan. 20 to Oct. 16, 2025, in the Dallas area of responsibility, which spans 128 counties in North Texas and all of Oklahoma. That is a 108% increase from the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2014 More than 300 people gathered downtown Saturday afternoon to protest the Trump administration\u2019s deportation push,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":507366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,69,7371,7372,409,7375,358,3187,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-507365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115873736575782436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507365","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=507365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}