Renee Good shot and killed by ICE Agent in Minneapolis

Renee's killing comes as roughly 2,000 federal law enforcement officers have been deployed throughout the Twin Cities, known as Operation Metro Surge. Renee was a loving mother and poet. She had just moved to Minnesota from Colorado last year.

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, was killed when an ICE agent shot into her vehicle during an encounter on January 7. She had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school when she encountered multiple ICE agents, including Jonathan Ross who shot her in the head while she was trying to leave the scene at 34th ST and Portland AVE.

Good's killing was caught on video by multiple witnesses. All the video evidence contradicts Trump’s claim that Good “viciously ran over” Ross, showing that Good’s car didn’t knock him down and that his legs were to the side of the SUV as it moved by him while he fired.

The scene of the shooting is located only a few blocks from where George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, an incident that ignited widespread protests locally, nationally, and globally.

Eyewitnesses at the scene described a chaotic and traumatic aftermath. One witness said that the victim was shot at close range and that bystanders, including a physician, were initially prevented from reaching her.

“They wouldn’t let EMS through, they wouldn’t let anybody through,” the witness said. “I just watched a murder outside my house.”

When officers arrived, they found the Good inside her vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Content warning: this video contains gunshots and a car crash.

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Eyewitness video

Federal agents quickly posted their spin online. “Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking  ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” said Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a post on X.

Mayor Jacob Frey rejected the suggestion that the shooting was an act of self-defense and demanded that ICE leave Minneapolis.

“Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: that is bullshit,” Frey said during a press conference. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”

Cheif O’Hara said Minneapolis officers initially secured the scene and worked to preserve evidence before turning it over to the FBI and Minnesota BCA for investigation. But in the following days, the FBI assumed sole control of the investigation into Good’s killing, removing the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) from access to evidence, scene materials, and interviews.

The BCA said it “reluctantly withdrew” because it could not conduct an independent investigation under those conditions, and state officials decried the lack of joint oversight.