Overview
- At Light of Day Winterfest in Red Bank, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen made an unannounced 75-minute appearance backed by Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers.
- He urged the crowd to “send a message to this president,” accused federal forces of “Gestapo tactics,” and said “ICE should get the f--- out of Minneapolis.”
- Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross during a Jan. 7 operation in Minneapolis.
- The Department of Homeland Security says the agent acted in self-defense, while Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have called for ICE to leave the city as protests continue.
- Fan-shot video of the comments spread online with NJArts.net first publishing the full remarks, and there has been no announced change to federal deployments.