San Diego County lowers flags for 2 killed by immigration officers in Minnesota
San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer Sunday ordered all County and U.S. flags to be lowered to half-staff on County property in recognition of the lives lost in Minnesota at the hands of immigration enforcement officials.
Sunday’s order will remain in effect until the conclusion of this week’s Board of Supervisors meetings that are scheduled to be completed Wednesday.
The order was issued by Lawson-Remer after what she called “the tragic deaths of Renée Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, resulting from recent federal immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis.”
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“Lowering the flag today (Sunday) reflects mourning and real alarm,” Lawson-Remer said in a statement. “Deadly federal enforcement combined with impeded oversight is a constitutional breakdown that communities across the country cannot ignore.”
Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who had protested President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city, was shot Saturday by an eight-year Border Patrol veteran just over a mile from where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good on Jan. 7, sparking widespread protests.
