Keith Porter Jr died on New Year's Eve after an off duty ICE agent shot him during a confrontation.
That agent walked away with no charges, and one Los Angeles professor decided the public should know exactly who he is.
What she told the room to do next crossed a line the university itself had to address.
The Shooting That Left One ICE Agent Unnamed and Uncharged
Keith Porter Jr. was shot and killed on New Year's Eve 2025 by an off duty ICE agent during an altercation.
The agent, Brian Palacios, has never been charged with a crime.
For eight months Palacios worked in silence while the man he killed stayed a name in a police report.
That changed Sunday.
Inside the Summit Where Abdullah Named Her Target
California State University, Los Angeles professor Melina Abdullah took the stage at an event billed as "a summit to end the terror against the people."
The gathering was tied to the Party for Socialism and Liberation's La Defensa del Pueblo conference, and it promised to teach attendees how to fight the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
Abdullah is a Pan-African Studies professor and a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
She used her time on stage to do something far more specific than protest talk.
She named Palacios directly.
She told the crowd "the killer ICE agent, who we got on good authority, is right down the road at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oxnard."
Then she gave the instruction.
"When I say f*** him up, and I say f*** Brian Palacios up, who may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn," she told the room.
She went further still.
"They don't get to do their s*** invisibly," Abdullah said. "Shine a light on they motherf***ing ass."
Abdullah framed it as using "every single tool in your toolbox," from prayer to "standing on front lines."
Nobody in that room needed a clarification to understand what they had just been handed.
Cal State's Response Shows Exactly Whose Side It Is On
Cal State LA called it "an off-campus event that was not sponsored by, affiliated with, or authorized by" the university.
The university said it respects free speech, "including speech with which the university strongly disagrees," but does not "agree with or condone hatred, threats, or violence of any kind."
That statement did not include the words fired, suspended, or investigated.
It did not name Palacios and it did not mention his safety.
Palacios is not an anonymous data point in a policy debate.
He is a man whose name, workplace, and possible hotel location were just broadcast to a room full of activists by a tenured public employee.
This is not the first time doxxing has followed ICE agents into their off hours.
The Department of Homeland Security condemned what it called "dangerous doxxing and escalating threats against federal law enforcement officers" in an October 2025 statement, after agents' addresses and photos started circulating online.
The Department of Justice has already charged an Antifa-linked activist with cyberstalking and threatening communications for allegedly calling for the murder and assault of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
Fox News has documented anti-ICE agitators mailing warning postcards to agents' neighbors, part of what the network has called a broader surge in doxxing and assaults on agents.
Abdullah did not invent this playbook.
She ran it in front of an academic audience, on a public university's payroll, with one man's real name and one real hotel.
The Playbook That Keeps Working Because No One Stops It
Every time an activist gets away with naming a federal agent and pointing a crowd at his hotel, the next activist learns the price is a statement about free speech.
Cal State LA moved quickly to release one.
That statement defended the university's reputation, not the man whose name and hotel had just been broadcast under its banner.
Abdullah's speech did not happen in a vacuum.
It happened inside a wave of targeted harassment against the people enforcing Trump's immigration policy, delivered by a woman whose paycheck comes from a California campus.
The next ICE agent whose hotel gets read aloud to a crowd will have Melina Abdullah's employer to thank for proving there is no real cost to doing it.
Sources:
- Daily Caller Staff, "Leftist Professor Doxxes ICE Agent, Urges Crowd To 'F**k Him Up,'" The Daily Caller, September 8, 2026.
- Staff, "Cal State Los Angeles Professor Doxes ICE Agent, Urges Students to 'F**K Him Up,'" Legal Insurrection, September 8, 2026.
- Staff, "Professor Asks Audience to 'F— Up' ICE Officer," The Daily Signal, September 9, 2026.
- Staff, "DHS Condemns Dangerous Doxxing and Escalating Threats Against Federal Law Enforcement Officers," Department of Homeland Security, October 9, 2025.
- Office of Public Affairs, "Anti-ICE Antifa Member Arrested on Federal Charges of Cyberstalking and Threatening Communications After Allegedly Calling for the Murder and Assault of Federal Immigration Officers in Minneapolis," U.S. Department of Justice.
- Staff, "PHOTOS: Anti-ICE Agitators Dox Agents by Sending Warning Postcards to Neighbors," Fox News.
- Staff, "ICE Mask Debate Heats Up as Doxxing and Agent Assaults Surge," Fox News.
