Kristi the protestor, who asked to be identified only by her first name\u2014spelled, to her displeasure, the same way as Noem\u2019s\u2014heeded a call from her church after the Minnesota shooting. On Thursday morning, she headed to Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, outside an ICE field office, where Noem\u2019s press conference was initially scheduled. When the location was moved, she joined the throng of a few hundred protestors marching the 15 minutes south to the World Trade Center, where Vanity Fair\u2019s<\/em> offices overlooked a crowd swelling in opposition to Noem and a heightened security presence accompanying it.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m actually here to pray for her horrible, rotten soul,\u201d Kristi said, \u201cand show my solidarity with Minneapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n Emily Dentinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n As the face of ICE\u2019s operations, Secretary Noem figured prominently into a vivid array of signs on display: along with a drawing of a red MAGA hat refashioned to read, \u201cYou\u2019re in a cult,\u201d and calls for \u201cjustice for Renee Nicole Good,\u201d a woman was demanding \u201cHAG 4 HAGUE.\u201d The sun was shining on this unseasonably warm winter day outside the building, and a protest monitor from the American Civil Liberties Union kept a steady eye on the large crowd of police officers on hand. As marchers circled the building, passing by the reflecting pools placed on the footprint of the Twin Towers, a masked Port Authority counterterrorism officer stood in the shadow of Santiago Calatrava<\/strong>\u2019s winged Oculus structure, holding a bundle of plastic zip ties hooked to a carabiner.<\/p>\n
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