County flags to be lowered in recognition of ICE-related deaths in Minnesota

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer on Sunday directed 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 federal agents during an immigration crackdown.

Sunday’s order will remain in effect until the conclusion of this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting 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.”

Pretti, 37, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday. He had been filming in a street with his cellphone when he was confronted by several federal agents and killed. In early January, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Good, also 37, an unarmed U.S. citizen, as she was driving.

“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.”