We’re on the Ground in Minneapolis as Tensions Flare After ICE Shooting |
A protester outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Thursday, the day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Nicole Good.Tom Baker/AP
Amanda Moore is a journalist who has been covering the rise of ICE across the US for months, writing news articles and posting clips of confrontations to her social media feeds and, in the process, becoming one of the most prominent chroniclers of Trump’s immigration crackdown from the front lines. Amanda will be filing stories for Mother Jones over the coming weeks and months about ICE and its operations, and I spoke to her as she arrived on the ground in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of Renée Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, sparking mass protests.
Below is our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.
James West: Tell me exactly where you are, what you’re seeing, and what the mood is like on the ground.
Amanda Moore: I’m here outside of the Whipple Building. It’s a federal building. It’s where ICE has been staging since they got here. As you can see, there are now a bunch of federal Border Patrol agents. This morning, there were some protests that were larger than the previous ones that have been at the building, and protesters actually worked to block the driveway. So now we can see all of the Border Patrol agents are here because they came out to........