The fatal shooting of an unarmed U.S. citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis Wednesday is fueling protests and fiery reactions across the country, including in Oregon.

The woman who died has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

Video of the shooting has spread on social media, drawing strong reactions from many viewers, while ICE officials have attempted to defend the shooting as self-defense. Leaders in Minnesota strongly dispute that characterization.

“To Americans who are watching this — if you’re in Portland, or you’re in L.A., or you’re in Chicago, or wherever they’re coming next — stand with us,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said at a press conference Wednesday. “Stand with us against this.”

Plans are already underway for a protest in downtown Portland Wednesday night. A regularly scheduled weekly protest in Eugene shifted focus to the Minneapolis shooting, once word spread of it, as reported by OPB’s news partner KLCC.

At the protest outside the Eugene Federal Building, Jacob Griffin with Trans Alliance of Lane County said the shooting made him sick.

“I have seen the video, and there’s just no excuse for what happened. That could have been any one of us here that come down here to protest. It could have been any citizen in Eugene.”

Eugene resident Kim Leval said she was heartbroken for the woman’s family.

“Coming down to protest was, in a way, honoring her life for the sacrifice that she probably wasn’t when she got up this morning thinking that she was going to give.”

U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore., was among the first members of the state’s congressional delegation to respond to the shooting in Minneapolis, calling it a “preventable tragedy that was the direct result of ICE’s violent and inhumane treatment of immigrants and U.S. citizens.” Salinas went on to say Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and “other Trump officials tried to lie and spin this story.”

Fellow Democrat Rep. Val Hoyle voiced similar sentiments in a video posted to X, as reported by KLCC.

“We just had ICE apparently murder a legal observer,” Hoyle said, “and the President and the head of DHS and Homeland Security are blatantly lying about what happened.”

The state’s largest farmworkers union, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, or PCUN, also condemned the fatal shooting in Minneapolis. In a statement, Reyna Lopez, president and executive director of PCUN, said ICE “executed” someone who was “exercising her right to peaceful assembly.”

Several of those publicly condemning the Wednesday shooting had a bottom line similar to what Lopez said: “ICE is not making our cities any safer.”

Leaders of the Oregon Nurses Association, which has been outspoken previously in its criticism of ICE tactics, also condemned the fatal shooting. ONA called for “an immediate end to ICE’s operations in our communities.”

KLCC’s Nathan Wilk contributed to this reporting.

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