Council member who lost eye in George Floyd protest sees echo in Ice killing
by Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis from US news | The Guardian on (#72R3S)
Soren Stevenson says Minneapolis shooting reminiscent in a scary way' - but he and his neighbors are feeling activated
It was Soren Stevenson's third day in office as a Minneapolis city council member on Wednesday when Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE on the edge of his district.
On Thursday, he sat in an eerily quiet food court at lunchtime in Plaza Mexico, a mall of mostly Latino businesses in south Minneapolis, eating carne asada and talking about how his neighborhood was once again the center of a national firestorm.
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