Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American citizen, was murdered last Wednesday (8) by an ICE agent during an operation in Minneapolis
The death of after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent this Wednesday (8), led thousands of people to gather on the street where she lost her life to pay tribute, while tension between Minnesota authorities and the president’s government increases
Good’s death impacted the city that, in 2020, suffered with the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer on a street located just over a kilometer away from where the 37-year-old woman now died in an incident that remains unresolved.
Indignation
With white roses, carnations, candles, handwritten letters and a wooden cross, thousands of citizens joined Renee Nicole Good’s neighbors and family to say goodbye to her at the place where she lost her life, after being shot by an ICE agent during an operation that remains under investigation.
Good’s family, along with some of her neighbors, described her as a “loving” and “kind” woman. The deceased lived in the city with her partner and left behind a 6-year-old son, according to several American media outlets.
One of Good’s neighbors, interviewed by the local newspaper “The Minnesota Star Tribune”, said that she was loved in the community and, amid the commotion over the tragic event, asked authorities to remove ICE agents from the city.
A series of videos of the moment Good, aboard his Honda Pilot truck, argues with ICE agents went viral on social media. The federal agents demand that she get out of the vehicle, she tries to start it and one of them forces the door; subsequently, an agent who was in front shoots repeatedly, and the car crashes a few meters away into a light pole with the dead woman inside.
President Trump blamed Good for the incident, saying she was a “rioter” and had disrupted the agents’ operation. Furthermore, she assured that she had run over the federal agent who shot her, which cannot be seen in any of the videos shared about the incident.
Trump’s stance, which was endorsed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristie Noem – who stated that the agent acted in “self-defense” and that he is stable and out of the hospital – was rejected by Minnesota authorities. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, classified the federal administration’s version as “garbage”.
Tension in Minnesota
Good’s death brought back to the debate the bitter relationship between the Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, a former vice-presidential candidate in 2024, and Trump, who are facing a confrontation over the presence of ICE in the state, which the governor classified as an “act of war” in previous months.
Tensions have deepened over Trump’s policy toward the Somali community, the largest in the state, with about 84,000 people, most of them citizens or legal residents.
The federal government has ended protections like Temporary Protected Status for Somalis and linked the community to fraud investigations, accusations that Walz dismissed as “vile” and discriminatory, arguing that these measures stigmatize entire populations.
Walz also publicly denounced federal operations as a “media spectacle” and called for respect for local jurisdictions, while Trump increased his rhetoric about the state and its leadership, holding them responsible for immigration problems and fraud.
Between the last half of 2025 and the current month of January, ICE has deployed more than 2,000 agents in Minnesota and reported more than 400 arrests, according to official data. EFE
*With EFE
