Leonard Witt: Conway vigil part of movement to end ICE intimidation

To The Daily Sun,

On Sunday, Jan. 11, more than a 100 people came to Conway to mourn the death of Minneapolis’ Renee Nicole Good. There were 1,000 similar gathering and vigils nationwide.

Good was shot in the face by an immigration office sent by the Donald Trump administration under the pretense of making Minneapolis safer. That’s like the twisted logic the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei uses in Iran when his own beat up and gun down Iranians who oppose him.

How could anyone feel safe when after murdering Good in the morning, masked ICE agents, acting like roving armed and brutal gangs in Haiti, showed up at Minneapolis’ Roosevelt High School in the afternoon as students were leaving at the end of the school day?

The school administrators rightfully closed the Minneapolis schools Friday for fear that the ICE agents might not stop at killing moms and start shooting teenagers too, and then make up some false story the ICE agents were in fear of their lives.

To make everyone safer, ICE should leave Minneapolis and allow the moms of 6-year-olds and everyone else to feel safe again under local governance and local policing. That’s the Minnesota way, that’s the New Hampshire way and that’s the American way. Each of us must call and encourage our local, state leaders and especially Gov. Kelly Ayotte to follow the lead of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who told the equivalent of the American Gestapo to get the f*** out of his city.

Leonard Witt

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