The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.

Speaker 1:

Sistance is are occupied,

Speaker 2:

Resistance is justified. I’m Becky. I’m a lifelong Baltimore resident and I’m out here today because we’ve got a real crisis in this country with ice. We’ve all seen what the goons are doing in Minnesota, and we definitely don’t want them to come here to Baltimore though they’re really actually already here. They’ve been seen at the Towson Mall, they’ve been seen in Waverly, and they’re breaking the law every single day. They’re killing people. Renee good here. They are acting in a completely lawless manner. They have to be stopped. It’s sort of amazing that they still are allowed to do what they’re allowed to do. So we just got to get out here and show our anti-ice sentiment strongly. They cannot do this to Baltimore.

Speaker 3:

My name is Guard Marquee Deba. I am a member of the DC Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. I am here with my fellow sisters and the citizens of Baltimore, Maryland and it’s surrounding communities and cities. Because we are here with the People’s Power Assembly in protest of the ice occupation in Baltimore and all over our country. You should get involved because we know our city better than these fascists ever will. They come in, they think they know us. They think I know their space. They don’t. We are here to spread love. And Baltimore is not about that hate. Good people are occupied, good people

Speaker 1:

Are occupied, is justified on everywhere.

Speaker 4:

Dowhere. We are downtown Baltimore right now marching on Pratt Street. We are marching against ice and the takeover of our streets and the complete disrespect of our constitution, every human right that people are supposed to have. I’m out here because originally I was born in Minneapolis, south Minneapolis. I have a twin brother is still in Minneapolis. Lives very close though where Renee good was murdered and all my friends back home are feeling very terrorized, especially any friend with melanin. Any friend who has a shade of pigment or melanin is very afraid to go anywhere, even walk their dogs, get food from the grocery store. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not. It doesn’t matter if you’re born here or not. They’re just terrorizing communities. There’s actually more ICE officers in Minnesota right now, for example, than police officers and they have more guns and everything. So it’s a complete takeover of our streets and our country. I support everybody’s right to be here. I don’t really care how you came over here because most white immigrants did not come over here with any papers. Let’s be honest about who the original undocumented colonizers or immigrants in this country were.

Speaker 5:

I feel what’s happening now with the administrations, especially ICE is awful and they really are fascist, and I don’t say that lightly because my mom was from Nazi Germany. Jewish fled for her life or I wouldn’t be here. But this is a lot like what happened in Nazi Germany and it’s very frightening, almost unbelievable that it could happen in the US and so quickly. I think what’s happening in Minneapolis is awful, horrendous ice by itself, but the killing of Renee, good, really just shocked me. People are being swept up. Children are being swept up. The tactics of ice are really like the secret police, possibly Hitler’s brown shirts or someone said the fugitive slave catchers. We need to end this madness as soon as possible before our democracy just crashes completely.

Speaker 6:

It’s important for all of us to speak right now. A lot of injustice, a lot of terrible things happening, so we need to be out on the streets all the time as a group, as individuals, however it is, we’re going to do it. We need to be out hearing, having our voices heard.

Speaker 7:

I think this is an important tipping point moment. We’re either going to build a global community that’s more united and equitable and everything, or we’re going to fall the way of division again. So this is a moment for people to really express themselves and kind of hold to our democratic values. This is not America. Power to the people,

Speaker 8:

Power to the people. My name is Sam. We’re in Baltimore, Maryland right now. Right now, we are protesting against ice and what they are doing to the immigrants in our country. We stand with the immigrants. We stand with all of the people that ice is affecting right now. Human rights are human rights. It doesn’t matter where you come from, the color of your skin, your gender, anything like that. Human rights are human rights. People deserve to be treated with respect, and we as people who are not immediately affected need to stand up and use our voice and show the other people in the country that are being affected that we are here for them and that they are not alone. What’s happening is not okay, and we’re just here to say that.

Speaker 9:

I’m Amy Lee with Free State Coalition. It’s important to be out here because it’s important that our neighbors know that we support them who can’t come out. It’s important that we make sure that everyone knows that ices injustices cannot be tolerated. There are a lot of actions to get involved with, including ice watch groups and escort groups. For people who are going to court hearings, check out free state coalition.org and fill out a volunteer form and we’ll get you started. There have been hundreds

Speaker 10:

Of people out here protesting. First and foremost what is happening in Minneapolis and the killing of Renee Goode. And we’re showing solidarity not only with Minneapolis, but also with all the people around the country who have been incarcerated and deported and terrorized by ice. We say abolish ice.

Speaker 11:

I’m Shannon. I’m in Baltimore. We’re out here protesting ice in solidarity with our friends in Minneapolis and just the horrible, horrible situation with killing people, going into people’s homes without warrants. Many of us are families of immigrants and immigrants are just trying to live a free life in the USA, and this has been a shit show with ice and we’re ready to fight back. No

Speaker 7:

More violence, no more fear, no more violence, no more fear. We want ice here, here.

The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.

Speaker 1:

No. On our no, no peace, no our no peace, no ice on our streets, no justice, no peace, no ice on our streets, no justice, no peace, no ice on our streets, no

Speaker 2:

Justice, no peace, no ice on our streets. We’re down here at Patterson Park protesting the presence of ice. Just because ice has the word enforcement, that doesn’t mean it has anything to do with law. Under the so-called President and those who voted for him, ICE has turned into a right wing paramilitary organization whose purpose, sole purpose is to enforce the unconstitutional policies of this particular administration. And we’re here to protest this. This is not 1930s Germany. This is 2026 United States, and we’re not going to have any of this.

Speaker 3:

I’m 82. I have marched in many a demonstration and march, and I never thought I would have to vote for this. I can’t believe that we have to stand up and fight for things that we’ve been taking for granted for so long. My family

Speaker 4:

Is being torn apart by ice. Her father was deported in October. My brother-in-law, which is her uncle, was also deported in September. So they’re targeting a lot of our people that are hardworking men, women, even the children. This is getting outrageous. They need to get the fuck out of here. Ice, ice,

Speaker 1:

Ice, ice,

Speaker 5:

Ice. Everywhere. Since January of last year, ice has had its deadliest year on record. And since then, we have seen moral failing after moral, failing with our leaders, avoiding the responsibility of their position, and allowing evil to slowly corrupt every facet of this country. Many people believe the lies that Trump told them about emus, that they were simultaneously lazy thieves and also mastermind criminals. But we know that these are lies. Remember his claim about the Haitians eating cats and dogs? Those lies aren’t harmless. Idiotic stories like that would lead to Trump’s mob harassing Somali businesses in Minnesota, and now someone is dead. Putting aside the fact that Donald Trump spends his days distracting from the release of the Fing files and departing criminals who de departed billions from American citizens, ice must be removed from Baltimore City. Their services are not required. Ice as an institution is rotten to the court. And when we allow these government thugs to abuse one of us, we allow them to abuse all of us. If these malicious losers seek to deny justice to the people, then the people are compelled to get justice by any means necessary. No kings

Speaker 6:

Means no gangs. As you all know, the Baltimore County entered a deal with the DOJ to be removed from the list of sanctuary jurisdictions with Baltimore County government collaborating with fascism, it falls on us, the people to create sanctuary conditions all throughout Baltimore. I want to know everything about these masked men coming into our city. I want to know where they sleep. I want to know where they eat. I want to know every move they make, and I want to confront them every step of the way. I want to make the job of being an ice agent in Baltimore, impossible

Speaker 7:

Every day. Ice kidnaps another person in Highlandtown right where we are right now. On top of the daily violence of these abductions. On the morning of Christmas Eve, ice agents opened fire in a residential area of Glen Burnie shooting Tiago Alexander Suso Martin, and leaving him hospitalized. Shay Minneapolis has shown us that when the working class decides to, we have the power to shut it down

Speaker 8:

On this horrible one year anniversary of Donald Trump being our president. Across this country, brothers and sisters, brown, black, white are standing together city to city, demanding more demanding justice and demanding freedom. But every time there’s another rally, every time there’s another protest, every time there’s another march, there’s much more new faces that I meet. The rallies are getting bigger and bigger and that cannot stop.

Speaker 9:

They’re repeating their history with a different approach. They did it to the Indians, they did it to us during reconstruction and ice was the Ku Klux Klan, alright? And the Ku Klux Klan was judges and lawyers and politicians in the day and hanging the lynching at night. And they’re doing the same thing. Now. Your politicians are failing you because racism don’t go without black cooperation or it ain’t going to end white participation. So we need our white partnership and our white community here to fight with us. When Martin Luther King fought, he had white people fighting with him. All right? We had them on the line down in Mississippi. We had him in Alabama, and we need you here now. We need you on the front line. We need judges to stand up. We need lawyers to stand up. It’s time to put in at Word. You ready to

Speaker 1:

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