WASHINGTON (RNS) — A group of more than 50 faith leaders gathered outside the White House Friday (Jan. 9) morning to mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by a federal agent Wednesday on a residential street in Minneapolis. The interfaith gathering also called for accountability for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“This is what fear as policy looks like. It confirms what too many already know — that systems with enormous unchecked power can take life and then move on as if nothing has been broken,” the Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, senior minister at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, and an advisory board member of Hindus for Human Rights, said to the crowd, after describing the chest tightness and shortness of breath that he said many in immigrant neighborhoods are feeling.
The group, assembled by interfaith organizing network Faith in Action, echoed the demands of ISAIAH, their Minnesota affiliate: that Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot Good, be charged and prosecuted, that federal authorities allow Minnesota investigators to take part …
