East Meadow protesters decry fatal shooting of woman in Minneapolis by ICE

Protesters in East Meadow on Thursday evening decried the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis by an agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — about 80 people demanding answers for the mother of three's killing and an end to ICE raids on Long Island and anywhere else in the country.

The demonstrators, young and old, bundled up against the evening chill, met on the sidewalk outside the Nassau County jail, where migrants arrested by ICE have been detained. President Donald Trump's return to office included a vow to ramp up the deportation of migrants in the United States illegally.

"Enough is enough," said Saul Linares, 37, who lives in Uniondale, adding he came out to the East Meadow rally to protest the shooting Wednesday on a Minneapolis residential street that claimed the life of Renee Good while she was in an SUV.

"It doesn’t matter, even if you are an American citizen, if you are Latino, if you speak Spanish, if your accent is Latino, if you speak broken English ... you’ll be arrested," Linares, holding a lit candle, told Newsday, adding that he is from El Salvador and living in the U.S. under temporary protected status.

The peaceful but vocal protest followed other demonstrations in Manhattan and nationwide Thursday over the shooting, which was captured from multiple angles on cellphone cameras.

Good was driving home after dropping her 6-year-old son off at school when she encountered federal agents on a residential street, according to her ex-husband. She was a U.S. citizen with no past charges beyond a traffic ticket.

Videos show one officer approaching her on the SUV's driver's side and grabbing the door handle, while another, standing in front of the vehicle, immediately shot at her in close range at least twice. 

In lower Manhattan on Thursday, scores of protesters took to the streets outside One World Trade Center, where Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a news conference and urged New York lawmakers to work with ICE agents.

"There’s a cold-blooded murderer in a press conference on the 50th floor," one protester shouted. "Kristi Noem, whose hands are not even dry yet from the blood of our sister Renee."

At a news conference, Noem doubled down to defend the ICE agent who fatally shot Good, claiming the woman had hit an ICE agent with her car in "an act of domestic terrorism."

In an interview Wednesday with The New York Times, President Donald Trump said of the shooting Good by the ICE agent and what led up to it: "She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over."

An analysis by The New York Times shows the SUV appearing to drive away from, not toward, the officer who pulled his gun.

On Thursday, Noem called out Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected officials, saying they should tone down the political rhetoric and "work with us rather than opposing us."

Gordon Tepper, a spokesperson for Hochul, said New York can't be made safe "by targeting families, children and hardworking New Yorkers."

"As Secretary Noem already knows, this administration is committed to working with federal law enforcement to crack down on gang members and violent criminals, but we will not support attacks on New York's communities," Tepper added.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey disputed the government’s description of what happened and demanded that ICE leave the city. Gov. Tim Walz called it a "propaganda machine," describing the shooting as "totally avoidable."

Noem on Thursday suggested that additional federal law enforcement could be heading to Minneapolis,

"We’ve got thousands of officers there," she said, "and I’m not opposed to sending more."

Noem was in Manhattan in to unveil the results of a joint operation by federal law enforcement and prosecutors stemming from the July shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer.

More than 70% of those arrested by ICE were already facing criminal charges or convictions, Noem said at the news conference. But data shows the opposite is true: As of November, nearly 74% of detainees had no criminal convictions, according to the Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

In East Meadow, Daniel Lozano, 27, of Bethpage and a member of the Long Island chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, said the videos that captured the shooting don't lie.

"First and foremost, we are here to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good, and an end to ICE’s reign of terror across the country," said Lozano, whose group was one of the organizers of the protest.

"Trump’s administration is now smearing her name as a ‘domestic terrorist.’" he said. "We all saw the video and what truly happened for ourselves and it paints a grimmer truth, one where ICE agents can do whatever they want and get away with it. Shame on them."

Linares noted he stood out among Thursday’s crowd of folks young and old bearing the cold.

"My family they are afraid, they don’t want to come [to the protest]," he said Thursday evening. "If you see most of the people [at Thursday’s protest] are not Latinos because the Latino community is afraid."

The Associated Press contributed to this story.