Tag: minneapolis
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U2’s new music honors Renee Good in ‘American Obituary’
LOS ANGELES — U2 is returning with its first collection of new songs in nearly a decade, opening with a tribute to Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota mom and Colorado Springs native fatally shot by a federal agent during this winter’s massive immigration crackdown. The Irish rock band released the six-song EP “U2 – Days of Ash” on Wednesday. Its…
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Colorado delegation splits in House vote to end federal government shutdown
Colorado’s U.S. House members divided mostly along party lines Tuesday in separate votes on a funding deal to end the federal government’s partial shutdown, while giving Congress more time to negotiate long-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package that finishes funding the vast majority of federal…
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Protesters storming a church in Minnesota draw firm responses in Colorado Springs
A couple of weeks after a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in St. Paul, Minn., unexpectedly interrupted Sunday worship to the point that the Southern Baptist-affiliated Cities Church called off the remainder of its service, and with at least seven people facing federal charges as of Friday for “conspiracy to deprive rights”…
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LETTERS: Second Amendment support; integrate the good and bad
Second Amendment support I just got off the phone with Jeff Crank’s office. They assured me that Congressman Crank supports the Second Amendment but does not support impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem. I wrote a letter to the editor, published in the Gazette regarding Noem calling Renee Good a “domestic terrorist.” My argument was that if…
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Hundreds gather at Colorado Springs City Hall to protest second deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis
The second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minnesota brought hundreds of protesters to the steps of City Hall in Colorado Springs on Sunday despite below-freezing temperatures and steady snowfall. Coordinated by the Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 50501 and other activist groups, the protest was in response…
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Protesters rally against ICE after fatal shooting of Colorado Springs native in Minneapolis
Protesters gathered outside the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday evening, calling for justice for Renee Nicole Good, a Colorado native who was shot and killed earlier that day by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minnesota. The fatal shooting of Good, 37, in a residential area on Wednesday morning has left Minneapolis…
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Renee Good: What we know about the Colorado native killed in Minneapolis ICE shooting
The fatal shooting of Colorado Springs-native Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis has sparked public outcry across the country, with protests taking place nationwide and lawmakers speaking out against the incident. Good, 37, died in her vehicle after being shot several times in the head by a federal agent…
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Federal judge green-lights 2020 protesters’ lawsuit against Denver
A federal judge on Tuesday agreed another lawsuit about the Denver police’s forceful response to 2020 demonstrations should face a jury trial over whether the city’s own policies led to violations of protesters’ constitutional rights. In the years since a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in May 2020, sparking international demonstrations, plaintiffs injured in the Denver…
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Reactions on the guilty verdict of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
As the verdict came down in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, the news rippled in the Rockies on Tuesday afternoon. At the Colorado Capitol, state Rep. Tony Exum Sr., a Democrat from Colorado Springs, offered the first official post-conviction response: a prayer at a press conference. State Rep. Leslie Herod,…
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George Paton’s journey to Denver started in a Chicago basement: From a friend’s couch to Broncos GM
George Paton showed up at Thomas Bonds’ Chicago doorstep with only an hour’s notice. Paton, 28 at the time, had just accepted a low-level scouting job with the Bears and had flown in from Los Angeles looking for a couch to crash on. Bonds’ brother, Jimmy, was a friend of Paton’s going back to their…