Michelle Hackman
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There was a huge protest on Friday.
Thousands of people peacefully going down the streets to protest ICE's involvement in the city.
And, you know, everybody was feeling pretty good about the response and how well managed the whole thing was.
They also closed down many businesses.
Hundreds of businesses were shuttered just for the day in sort of what they were calling a general strike.
And then Saturday morning, everybody woke up to another ICE shooting.
I mean, you know, people are angry.
They kind of feel like they've been saying something like this could happen.
I mean, two weeks ago, it was Renee Good, another person trying to observe ice who was shot in the head by an ice agent.
And now it happens again.
So, yeah, people are very upset.
Just sadness and anger.
I mean, I saw a lot of people in tears.
I spoke with people and it just doesn't take long for them to get to a real sense of hopelessness and sadness that somebody who had dedicated his life to helping other people and was, you know, a gun down in the street.
The cooperation is still just not happening.
And so the state's trying to launch their own investigation, but it's very difficult when they don't have access to the evidence like body cam footage or any of the forensics or anything else.
I mean, the integrity of the crime scene has been completely lost, but they were there right in front of a business is where it happened, and they were knocking on the door to see if anybody inside had any information.
There was a man being interviewed on TV, and one of the investigators asked to speak with him afterwards and had the guy walk over and point where he
had seen blood on the day of the shooting.