DETROIT (WWJ) -- Local leaders and community members came together to demonstrate in Downtown Detroit Tuesday morning, protesting the killing of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.
They call the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good "murder" and "unjustified" — and they're calling on Detroit's mayor and City Council to limit ICE activities in Detroit.
The group gathered at the Spirit of Detroit, just hours before President Donald Trump was set to deliver an address to the Detroit Economic Club, down the road.
Among those to speak was Reverend Paul Perez of Central United Methodist Church in Downtown Detroit. She said her parishioners have been deeply affected by the president's hardline anti-immigrant policies.
"We have seen firsthand as our community members stop attending church, as they delay seeking needed services and care, and are even afraid to go the the grocery store," Perez said. "We have comforted people who afraid and who are grieving the loss of family members and loved ones who have been detained or deported. Enough is enough."
Also presents was Michigan Sen. Stephanie Chang of Detroit who said, even though there haven't been widespread ICE operations on the city, there have been many instances were agents are in neighborhoods.
"There are people that we know of that are being apprehended by ICE and detained here in Michigan for long periods of time," Chang said.
This comes as The Associated Press reports confrontations between federal agents and protesters stretched throughout the day and across multiple cities on Monday, in response to Good's killing.
The federal government and ICE official justify the shooting, saying Renee Nicole Good was a "domestic terrorist," and that the officer killed Good in self-defense.
Detroit Police Commissioner Victoria Camille has concerns about how officers would handle a similar situation in Detroit. She had a message for city leaders: "Make sure that our Detroit residents are protected and our civil rights are preserved. And so that means that any type of agency, at whatever level, that is in the city needs to following the guidelines that are set for our law enforcement here. And anyone who can't follow that can't be here. Period. Including ICE."
Camille said she supports a recent memo from Detroit City Councilwoman Gabriela Santiago Romero to Police Chief Todd Bettison asking about how local law enforcement would cooperate with ICE if they did come to the city for a widespread operation.
There was no immediate response from the Detroit mayor or city council.
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