Federal officers cannot retaliate against, detain, or attack people who are peacefully protesting and observing immigration enforcement operations in the Minneapolis area, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
The ruling comes a little more than a week after =Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed legal observer Renee Nicole Good, supercharging protests against an immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities that the Department of Homeland Security claims is its largest ever.
“This is an important preliminary win for all Minnesotans exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest and witness,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wrote on social media in response to the ruling. “Thanks and congratulations to the ACLU and the plaintiffs for standing strong for this bedrock principle.”
