Park City • With filmmakers and other famous names gathered in Park City for Utah’s last Sundance Film Festival, hundreds of protesters took to Main Street, chanting “shoot movies, not people” during an “ICE OUT” protest Monday meant to “stand in solidarity with Minnesota.”
The Monday afternoon protest was organized just hours earlier on Sunday, a day after a U.S. Border Patrol officer on Saturday killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
About 500 protesters began at Miners Park before marching down Main Street, decrying the ongoing immigration crackdown and actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
“I’m not OK with what’s happening in this country,” said Jen Ford, who came to Park City from Austin, Texas, for skiing. One sign she held read, “Utah needs snow, not ICE.”
One organizer, Park City pro skier and activist Sierra Quitiquit, called the protest an “extremely grassroots” effort and event.
“I wanted to get people in the streets,” Quitiquit said, “rather than mourning alone at home.”
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Professional skier and activist Sierra Quitiquit, leads protesters in a chant as they march down Main Street in Park City for the ICE OUT protest, during the Sundance Film Festival, on Monday, Jan 26, 2026.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Caroline Gleich, professional ski mountaineer, environmental activist, and former U.S. Senate candidate, joins the ICE OUT protest in Park City, during the Sundance Film Festival, on Monday, Jan 26, 2026.
As people marched, law enforcement officers mostly monitored from the perimeter, including some Park City police and Utah Highway Patrol troopers, plus three mounted officers from the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office.
The only overt police action was one Park City police officer stepping in to tell the lead organizers to turn off their megaphone. Later, an officer confiscated the megaphone from Quitiquit.
The march stopped briefly at Heber Avenue, where a traffic barrier prevented vehicles from driving along Main Street during the film festival. There, marchers briefly separated and reformed on the lower portion of Main Street.
The march ended at a small park a couple blocks down.
“The work does not end here,” Quitiquit told the marchers, then asked them to hug the stranger next to them — which many did.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters march down Main Street during the ICE OUT protest in Park City, on Monday, Jan 26, 2026.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amy Redford, center, joins the ICE OUT protest on Main Street in Park City, during the Sundance Film Festival, on Monday, Jan 26, 2026.
After, athlete and former U.S. Senate candidate Caroline Gleich encouraged attendees to contact their senators and representatives to demand “a lot more accountability.”
Gleich estimated that the protesters were a mix of Utahns and people from out of state. She said after Sunday’s anti-ICE protest in downtown Salt Lake City, it was appropriate to protest in Park City while it’s filled with Sundance attendees.
“This is an international concern, and this is an international audience,” Gleich said.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Professional skier and activist Sierra Quitiquit, leads protesters as they march down Main Street in Park City for the ICE OUT protest, during the Sundance Film Festival, on Monday, Jan 26, 2026.