A group of Broadway and former Kennedy Center dancers staged a Presidents Day protest in Washington, D.C., performing a choreographed piece that reenacted the fatal ICE shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last month.
Readers can judge for themselves. A portion of the demonstration can be viewed below, while the full version is available here.
At the risk of minimizing the deaths of Good and Pretti, both of whom were rabid anti-ICE activists whose reckless actions led to their untimely ends, the dancers presented their shootings as if they came out of nowhere. They would have the public believe that immoral federal agents randomly gunned down these innocent bystanders in cold blood.
Naturally, the reenactment omitted the part where federal agents asked Good to step out of her car and she opted instead to step on the gas while an ICE officer stood in her vehicle’s path. Likewise, they also skipped over the provocations that preceded Pretti’s death, including the loaded gun he had brought to the event.
Why didn’t the dancers reenact the brutal 2024 rape and murder of Laken Riley at the hands of a violent illegal alien who should never have been allowed into the U.S.? Or the torturous death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray who was sexually assaulted and killed in Texas by illegal aliens the same year?
Why didn’t they reenact any of the traffic fatalities directly caused by illegals who were foolishly issued commercial driver’s licenses in blue states, even though they couldn’t read the road signs?
The truth is that illegal aliens have committed thousands of atrocities against U.S. citizens over the years. According to the Department of Homeland Security, 70% of the noncitizens deported by the Trump administration have criminal records. Their removal from the U.S. makes us safer.
Storyful reported:
This footage [of the dancers] was shared to Instagram by @hungrymaninc and @FirstAmendmentTroop, with the caption: “Since Trump fancies himself the chairman of entertainment at the Kennedy Center, we thought we should show you the tragically un-American script he’s been writing.”
And according to The Washington Post:
The team of dancers shared on social media that they were able to complete the full performance near the Lincoln Memorial, but were shut down by authorities outside the Kennedy Center midway through the dance.
As distorted and agenda-driven as this protest was, I suppose the best that can be said is that it was peaceful. And, in today’s increasingly fractured political environment, that’s not nothing.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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