Voters in Minneapolis and Houston left "I Voted" stickers this Election Day at memorials for people killed by federal immigration agents this year. Dozens of stickers were left at the Minneapolis memorials for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens fatally shot by federal agents in January. In Houston, more than 1,000 stickers had been placed by late October on a memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican construction contractor killed by a U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in July. Both Minneapolis memorials featured portraits of Good and Pretti, surrounded by flowers and messages criticizing ICE and President Donald Trump. The Houston memorial also drew handwritten notes, many in Spanish.
Some read "Por usted" ("For you"), while others said, "You didn't deserve this." Mexican and U.S. flags and portraits of Salgado Araujo were also displayed at the site. In Houston, it started with Salgado Araujo's oldest son, Ronaldo Salgado, who voted on October 19, the first day of early voting in Texas, then went to Canal Street and put his sticker on the plywood memorial marking where his father was killed. More voters came in the days that followed, some because they had seen video of it on social media.
Axios Houston reported that residents were dedicating their votes to Salgado Araujo and to immigrants who cannot vote themselves. Reports from Minneapolis on Tuesday did not identify an organized effort behind the stickers there, or say whether voters were following Houston's example. Good, 37, a writer and mother of three, was shot dead on January 7 on Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis as thousands of federal agents moved into the Twin Cities for Operation Metro Surge.
Video of the encounter shows officers telling her to get out of her SUV as one reached through the driver's window. She turned the wheel away from ICE officer Jonathan Ross and began to drive, and he fired. The SUV crashed into a parked car about 140 feet away.
An autopsy commissioned by her family found three gunshot wounds, including one to the head, and a graze. Then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem called Good a "domestic terrorist" without providing evidence and said Ross acted in self-defense. DHS later said he suffered internal bleeding.
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