PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two to three thousand people gathered at Philadelphia City Hall Thursday evening for a vigil to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good, a woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
The 37-year-old mother of three was shot in the head by an ICE agent in front of a family member around 9:30 Wednesday morning. The killing was recorded on video and quickly spread across social media bringing nationwide outrage.
In Philadelphia, Jessica, one of the thousand or so attendees, said her heart was broken to learn about Good in the news.
"She did not deserve to die, there is no reason she is dead," said Jessica.
Attendee Pam Albright said Good's killing angered and scared her.
"None of us are safe if that kind of thing can happen to anyone who’s protesting, much less anyone who’s an immigrant or person of color," she said. "Our lives are not worth anything to this administration."
The rally at City Hall, organized by Juntos, No ICE Philly, Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Immigration Coalition, honored Good and called for the end of ICE amid rising incidents of violence against communities involving ICE agents.
Erika Guadalupe Nunez, executive director of Juntos, said the violence of ICE is something immigrant communities have experienced long before the efforts of President Donald Trump.
"The anger many of you are feeling tonight is born into all of us," said Guadalupe Nunez.
Aniqa Rahan with No ICE Philly said city officials need to do more to protect residents from ICE.
"We really want to see our elected officials go from this stance of 'we don’t collaborate with ICE' to 'we are standing against ICE,'" she said.
In response to the outcry, Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called the shooting of Good an act of self defense by the ICE agent.
Noem went on to call the incident an act of domestic terrorism.
Randy Libros, who attended the vigil, said what he saw in the video online was just a woman trying to drive away.
"We hear from Kristi Noem that this agent, he was just doing what he was trained to do. Well, that’s pretty disturbing," he said. "If that’s what they’re training people to do, that is really, very disturbing."
The vigil and speeches ended after a little more than an hour.