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A few hundred peaceful protestors gathered at the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka on Saturday afternoon to stand against the Trump administration’s escalating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics and condemn the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Good. 

The sign-wielding crowd filled the courthouse lawn and lined both sides of Highway 101 northbound, stretching about two city blocks. Demonstrators were largely cheerful, singing along to protest songs and chatting with their neighbors. The Outpost overhead one of the demonstrators say to a friend, “The thing I like about protests is they’re always fun. They aren’t nasty.”

Several officers from the Eureka Police Department hung out across the street from the courthouse to keep an eye on the crowd. Asked if there had been any issues with the demonstration thus far, EPD Commander Leonard LaFrance said he hadn’t seen anything other than a couple of people standing in traffic and passersby sticking their heads out of sunroofs to wave at protestors.

As usual, your LoCO took lots of pictures of today’s protest. Check ‘em out below.

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