The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
“I think the good thing about Northsiders is they know we’re not protesters,” Brown said. “We’re here to ensure the safety of our community. We’re not the protesting type of people. We more or less are trying to make sure we get through life and take care of each other.”
blessings be to mr wooten. the person quoted later in this article though? i want him to take a good long look in the mirror and ask himself where he thinks the few rights he has remaining as a citizen came from.