Bruce Springsteen gave his anti-ICE protest song ‘Streets Of Minneapolis’ a live debut during a surprise appearance at a benefit show hosted by Tom Morello – check out footage below.

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On Friday (January 30), a benefit gig organised by Rage Against The Machine’s Morello promised Minnesota locals a show of “solidarity and resistance” in the wake of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were both shot and killed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on separate occasions in recent weeks.

Good, aged 37, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7, while Pretti, also aged 37, was killed on January 24 – with both incidents taking place less than a mile apart. Pretti was shot 10 times in five seconds by an ICE officer. Both Good and Pretti were US citizens, and the latter had been involved in the protests unfolding in the wake of Good’s death.

The show at the First Avenue club was conceived to raise money for the families of both, and, towards the end of the charity event, Springsteen was brought out as a surprise guest. He delivered the first live performance of the protest song, which decries “King Trump’s private army from the DHS” with “guns belted to their coats“.

Before playing the track, Springsteen told the crowd he’d written and recorded the song and sent it to Morello also immediately, worried it sounded “kinda soapboxy”.

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/y6PgLItFkb

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