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United Nations.- The UN expressed its "concern" on Thursday over the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis (Minnesota), after a federal agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) shot her to kill, and hopes that those responsible "will be held accountable for it".
In a press conference, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, stated that "anyone who has seen the video (of Renee Good's death) will have been concerned", and emphasized that the UN expects those responsible to "be held accountable for it".You may be interested in: http://Woman who died at the hands of an ICE agent in the US was not an activist, according to ex-partner
This Wednesday, an ICE agent killed 37-year-old American Renee Good after shooting her several times while the woman was trying to maneuver her car amid protests against the federal body's presence in the northern city of the country. Public schools in the city have canceled classes for the rest of the week for safety, while hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Minneapolis with protests accusing federal anti-immigration agents of ICE of "murderers". The United States government has sent about 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis since the beginning of last December. The most populous city in the state of Minnesota has already witnessed protests against police violence. In fact, in 2020, he was the protagonist of the murder of George Floyd, a mile from where Good's occurred, at the hands of a police officer, which unleashed a wave of anti-racist protests across the country. In 2003, the U.S. created the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency in charge of identifying, detaining, and deporting undocumented immigrants, as well as investigating crimes such as human trafficking or transnational smuggling. Since its creation, it has accumulated numerous criticisms and complaints of discrimination and racism that have skyrocketed since the beginning of Donald Trump's second term, which has made it the fundamental tool of his policy of mass deportations. In addition to the increase in personnel for raids on businesses, associations, and workplaces, ICE benefits from a more restrictive interpretation of immigrants' rights that allows agents to make arrests and deportations without judicial control.
