With more than 1,000 protests planned nationwide for Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 amid heightened tensions over two recent shootings by federal immigration enforcement agents, this might seem like a good opportunity for the Justice Department to deploy its "peacemaking" unit that for decades de-escalated confrontations at demonstrations and helped prevent deadly police responses.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

The killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday has sparked the fiercest protests yet over President Trump’s

Activist organizations are planning at least 1,000 protests and vigils this weekend. Officials in major cities cast Saturday's demonstrations as largely peaceful.

Anti-ICE protests in some 60 cities of California were largely peaceful statewide, although marked by moments of tension, anger and sporadic vandalism.

From a downtown march to a last-minute town hall, throngs of people gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration.