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Following Renee Good’s death, Bruce Springsteen delivered a scathing speech to an audience attending a charity performance, once again criticizing President Donald Trump and ICE.
Springsteen made an unexpected appearance at the Light of Day Winterfest in his native New Jersey. Funds for Parkinson’s disease and other neurological illnesses are raised annually.
The 76-year-old rock star, who has long been a Trump critic and openly sparred with him last year, attacked the government as he introduced his 1978 song, “The Promised Land.”
According to Springsteen, “I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility.” We are now living in very important times. In the contemporary era, the United States, the principles and values it has upheld for the last 250 years, are being put to the ultimate test.
Never before have such principles and values been under such peril as they are today. According to a YouTube video from the event, Springsteen went on, “If you believe in the power of law and that no one stands above it, if you stand against heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city, using gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens, if you believe you don’t deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, then send a message to this president, as the mayor of the city said: ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis.”
“This song is dedicated to you and the memory of Renee Good, an American citizen and mother of three.” On January 7, Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Protests around the United States have erupted in the weeks after the shooting, demanding responsibility for both Good’s murder and a related incident in Portland that left two others injured by Border Patrol officers.
Conflicts with police enforcement have arisen at several rallies, particularly in Minneapolis, where ICE is conducting its biggest immigration enforcement operation to date. “Get the f*** out,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told the ICE officers Trump sent to the city after the massacre.
“This was an agent who used power carelessly, which led to someone being killed,” he said. Celebrity voices against Trump’s government are joined by Springsteen. Actor Mark Ruffalo called Trump the “worst human being” in a red carpet interview at the Golden Globes last week.
“We’re all in a lot of trouble if we’re depending on this guy’s morality for the most powerful country in the world.” This is for [Good], then. This is for the Americans who are afraid and frightened right now.
I am aware that I am one of them. I adore this nation. Furthermore, what I’m seeing here is not American. Several celebrities, including Ruffalo, wore buttons that said “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT” in remembrance of Good during the occasion.
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