Minnesota ICE protests live: Nationwide rallies continue over fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti

More than 300 “Ice Out of Everywhere” protests are expected across the U.S. today, according to 50501, a national grassroots organization.

“ICE has been ravaging our communities and targeting civilians, but every time they invade a community, we will keep teaching them the same lessons: that there are more of us than there are of them, and that We the People have the power,” said Logan Keith, a veteran and the organization’s communications coordinator.

Outrage is growing nationwide after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents this month in Minneapolis.

Protesters will gather in downtown Boston today for an “ICE Out of Everywhere” rally, according to NBC Boston.

The protest will be one of many “ICE Out of Everywhere” events planned nationwide this weekend.

Protesters in Boston are reportedly calling on local and state officials to end cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The organizers told NBC Boston the rally will focus on community protection, nonviolent resistance and mutual aid.

Demonstrations have been ongoing in Boston and other cities nationwide after federal immigration agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents earlier this month.

Wearing sunglasses and a scarf obscuring his face, the armed ICE agent gets out of the SUV, approaches the vehicle and tells the activists that if they keep tailing him, they will be arrested.

“This is going to be your very last warning,” he says, as a fellow agent, his face also covered, begins filming us on his phone.

“You are impeding our operation,” he continues, adding as an apparent afterthought, “and traffic.”

Unperturbed, Will Stancil, 40, a local civil rights lawyer, responds calmly: “I have a constitutional right to follow you. I am not impeding the traffic.”

President Donald Trump shared a Truth Social post late Friday praising border czar Tom Homan just days after sending him to Minnesota, where he now oversees ICE operations.

Trump wrote: “Border Czar (Plus!) Tom Homan is doing a FANTASTIC JOB. He is one of a kind. Thank you Tom!!!”

Homan said Thursday “massive changes” are coming to Minnesota, which includes plans to reduce the number of federal agents int he area.

If embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is penning any thank-you notes to express her gratitude for not having been summarily sacked this week after plunging the Trump administration into crisis over Minneapolis, she might want to start with Michael Flynn.

Flynn is the disgraced former U.S. Army general who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser for a whopping 22 days at the outset of Trump’s first term eight years ago.

A conspiracy theorist and uber-Trump loyalist, Flynn lost his job three weeks into Trump’s presidency after it became known that he’d lied to both the FBI and then-vice president Mike Pence about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.

Amid a torrent of negative press and questions about his campaign’s alleged ties to the Russian government’s efforts to help him win the 2016 presidential race, Trump fired the retired military officer in a futile effort to put the story to bed. It became one of his biggest regrets from his first stint in the White House.

Trump posted on Truth Social about a video filmed 11 days before Customs and Border Protection officials in Minneapolis shot and killed Pretti. The video showed Pretti kicking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV, breaking its taillight before being tackled to the ground.

“Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday morning. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

Tillis, who is retiring at the end of the year, said that there was evidence that Pretti likely agitated.

“If you look at the video the week before, he was agitating, by definition,” he told The Independent. “You don’t go in and kick anybody’s car, let alone a truck full of ICE agents, and not view that as an agitating event.”

At the same time, he criticized Trump for saying Pretti’s “stock” went down.

“Stock going down?! My God, we’re talking about a man who died on the street, which, you know, we’ll let the investigation come out,” the Republican said. “It’s just no place for that. I don’t think the American people are going to like that. “

Actress Jane Fonda, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said outside a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Friday in support of independent journalist Don Lemon, “They arrested the wrong Don.”

Lemon was arrested in connection with a protest against ICE activities that disrupted a Minnesota church service, which he covered.

“Don Lemon is a professional journalist. He and his producer were doing their job, nothing more, nothing less. And he’s been arrested, and they’ll make up all kinds of defamatory things to say about him,” Fonda said. “We can’t fall for it. We have to speak up. When a red line is crossed like this, we cannot be silent.”

Comedian Ben Bankas’ shows were canceled at a small club in Minnesota after he made fun of Renee Good’s death.

Laugh Camp Comedy Club said the shows, scheduled for Friday and this weekend, were canceled because of “heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder.”

“The people in Minnesota who are normal and are good people deserve to f***ing laugh,” Bankas said, reacting to his shows being canceled during a stand-up routine posted on Facebook Thursday. “It’s cathartic to laugh at some f***ed up s***.”

The Independent has reached out to Bankas for comment.

Nationwide protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are being held on Friday.

Organizers of the mass protests had called for a “national shutdown” where people would skip work and school and refuse to shop.