A group gathered outside of the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building on Michigan Avenue and marched to downtown Detroit on Friday, July 24, to oppose the killings of two people shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers earlier this month.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican father, was killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer the morning of July 7 during a traffic stop in Houston, USA TODAY reported.
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot and killed on July 14 in Biddeford, a city about 15 miles south of Portland, Maine, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He was authorized to work in the United States and was the father of a 3-year-old daughter, USA Today reported.
The protest
also acknowledged a third person, Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, who was killed on July 14, after he and three others in a vehicle fled on foot during an encounter with federal immigration officers in a gas station parking lot near St. Augustine, Florida, USA Today reported.
The Detroit protest included El Comité de Acción Comunitaria, Detroit Will Breathe, MIStudentsDream, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Detroit Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Detroit Peoples Assembly, and more.
Chants included "Money for jobs and education, not for war and deportation" and "Say it loud, say it clear immigrants are welcome here."
Ryan Garza contributed to this reporting. USA Today contributed to this reporting.
Contact Natalie Davies at ndavies@freepress.com.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Groups protest killings of 3 by ICE in Detroit
