{"id":2278356,"date":"2026-02-12T03:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2278356"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:02:03","slug":"billie-eilish-asks-fellow-celebrities-to-speak-up-about-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/billie-eilish-asks-fellow-celebrities-to-speak-up-about-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Asks &#8216;Fellow Celebrities&#8217; to &#8216;Speak Up&#8217; About ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a> is calling out other A-listers for staying silent about the chaos unfolding in Minneapolis amid ICE\u2019s ongoing presence in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a Monday morning (Jan. 26) post on her Instagram Story, the pop star shared a photo of herself looking quizzically at the camera. \u201chey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up?\u201d she wrote over the snap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShortly prior, Eilish had reshared a couple of posts about the death of Alex Pretti, whom an ICE agent shot and killed Saturday (Jan. 24) during an immigration enforcement operation. The Donald Trump administration <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/alex-pretti-fatally-shot-federal-officers-minneapolis-identified-paren-rcna255758\">has claimed<\/a> that the officer was acting in self-defense, alleging that Pretti was threatening violence with his handgun, but multiple videos taken by witnesses on the scene show that Pretti did not appear to be holding his gun during the confrontation, and that a federal agent had already seemingly removed it from Pretti\u2019s holster before the 37-year-old Minneapolis man was shot. Pretti\u2019s family said that the ICU nurse had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota, according to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-protester-alex-pretti-15ade7de6e19cb0291734e85dac763dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe nine-time Grammy winner\u2019s brother and frequent collaborator, Finneas, shared his take on the situation in a video, which Eilish reposted on her Story. \u201cThe conservative argument that allows school shootings to continue has always basically boiled down to, \u2018We have to protect the Second Amendment,&#8217;\u201d the visibly heated producer says in the clip. \u201cEvery argument I\u2019ve seen for why Alex Pretti\u2019s death was justified yesterday is like, \u2018Well he had a gun.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShut the f\u2013k up!\u201d Finneas continues in his video. \u201cThis guy was being beaten to a pulp on the ground. He didn\u2019t draw his weapon. He had a weapon on him legally. And they still shot the f\u2013k out of him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBoth Eilish and Finneas have been vocal in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-anti-ice-posts-fatal-minneapolis-shooting-1236152310\/\">their opposition<\/a> to ICE\u2019s continued occupation of Minneapolis, which has now resulted in two civilian deaths. A few weeks prior to Pretti\u2019s death, Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in the city; similarly, the Trump administration claimed that the officer in that incident, Jonathan Ross, had been acting in self-defense, while witness footage contradicted that he\u2019d been in danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-blasts-ice-minnesota-mlk-jr-justice-award-1236157623\/\">Eilish said <\/a>while accepting the 2026 MLK Jr. Beloved Community Award For Environmental Justice on Jan. 17, adding that many Americans \u201cno longer feel safe in our own homes or in our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOne star who has joined Eilish in speaking out is Olivia Rodrigo, who also posted about the violence unfolding in Minneapolis over the weekend. \u201cICEs actions are unconscionable but we are not powerless,\u201d she wrote. \u201cour actions matter. I stand with Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish is calling out other A-listers for staying silent about the chaos unfolding in Minneapolis amid ICE\u2019s ongoing presence in the city. In a Monday morning (Jan. 26) post on her Instagram Story, the pop star shared a photo of herself looking quizzically at the camera. \u201chey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up?\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[309165,21932,388775,22048],"class_list":["post-2278356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-genre-pop","tag-music-news","tag-nsfs","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Billie-Eilish-Asks-Fellow-Celebrities-to-Speak-Up-About-ICE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278358,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278356\/revisions\/2278358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}