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Hundreds of people met at Teralta Park in City Heights for a rally Friday afternoon, chanting and holding signs saying “Stop ICE Terrorism,” “Justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti” and “Defund Trump.”
The demonstration was part of a nationwide series of strikes that saw people stay home from work and school and avoid shopping Friday in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, and in particular the recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
In San Diego, protest attendees said that they were angry, but that joining together gave them hope.
The group — about 400 strong — marched through the neighborhood, down Orange and Fairmount avenues before circling back along University Avenue. Residents cheered the marchers on from the windows of their homes.
Clairemont residents Matt and Erin Levy pulled their son out of school to join the rally. “We don’t want to have to teach him these things,” Erin said as the family walked down Fairmount Avenue, but said she wants him to be able to learn from them and ask questions.
Matt works for the Pentagon and said it’s a challenge to work for a government he feels at odds with, calling the immigration arrests and enforcement “state terror.”
“If people like me leave there and don’t work there, then it’s just gonna get worse,” he said. “Otherwise it’s left in the hands of people who play with big guns like toys.”
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