Minnesotans leave their ‘I Voted’ stickers at Renee Good, Alex Pretti memorials

Minnesota voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at the memorial sites for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two people killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minneapolis earlier this year.

The state was the site of one of the country’s largest immigration enforcement operations called “Operation Metro Surge.” The controversial initiative led to Good and Pretti’s killings, and rising disapproval of the Trump administration’s handling of immigration.

“I knew Alex Pretti,” a retired physician who placed a sticker at Pretti’s memorial site told The Guardian . “I just knew that he was a competent nurse — a really, really liked guy. And he was assassinated.”

“The country has humiliated itself by putting in a bad man, a very, very bad character … Today is a chance for America to say whether they support this kind of thing,” he continued, referring to President Trump.

Pretti, 37, was killed in January while filming ICE agents during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Last month, his family accused the Justice Department of protecting the ICE agents involved in the shooting along with refusing to provide evidence for ongoing investigations.

“Share the evidence now so prosecutors can follow the facts and hold these men accountable,” Pretti’s father, Michael Pretti, said. “Do your job and stop shielding Alex’s killers.”

“I felt like my vote felt a little bit more in touch with some of the things that happened earlier this year in the city,” a voter who placed his sticker at Good’s memorial site told The Guardian.

“So, I felt like it was just the right thing to do — to come pay some respects and attach my vote to what happened here,” he continued.

Good was killed in the beginning of January; a bystander captured on video the moment ICE agents fired multiple shots into her vehicle at close range. Her family and partner have filed lawsuits against administration officials, alleging in one filing that the operation was “designed to be a violent and discriminatory campaign targeted at Minnesotans on the basis of race and national origin.”

“Renee was one of those casualties,” the lawyers for Good’s family said.