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That framing was echoed by Sanika Mahajan, director of community engagement and organizing at Mission Action, who described the shooting as a \u201clawless act of murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the result of a supercharged environment of extreme racism,\u201d Mahajan said. \u201cTrump wants to divide [us] along racial lines, along national lines, and stop us from coming together to form a united front.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good is the fifth person reported to have been killed during encounters involving ICE agents in the past six months, but not the first to be shot at. Data collected by the Gun Violence Archive and analyzed by The Trace shows increased use of firearms during immigration operations, with a notable uptick in reported shootings during the latter half of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem characterized Good as a \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d, accusing her of \u201cweaponiz[ing] her vehicle and attempt[ing] to run a law enforcement officer over,\u201d prompting the agent to fire \u201cdefensive shots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to give into terrorism,\u201d Vice-President J.D. Vance posted on his official X account. \u201cWe cannot say that when a far-left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials, that we\u2019re no longer going to enforce the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witness accounts and video footage of the shooting, however, contradict those characterizations. One witness recorded five ICE agents approaching Good\u2019s vehicle. The agent in question, later identified as 43-year-old deportation officer Jonathan Ross, can be seen standing to the left of the car, whose front wheels were turned to the right \u2014 before firing three shots at close range, striking Good in the chest and arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have to lie,\u201d said Atheirne in response to official statements. \u201cTheir only strength is their violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another video, recorded by Ross on his phone, shows him walking around the front of the vehicle and standing to the side as Good began to drive. While Ross was bumped by the vehicle and reportedly suffered internal injuries, few details about the extent of those injuries have been made public. After reviewing footage from multiple angles, several law enforcement experts told national outlets that Good did not appear to be attempting to hit the agent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Experts also raised questions about Ross\u2019s actions, including why he was filming with his phone during the encounter and why he crossed so closely in front of a moving vehicle, as well as the training ICE agents receive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Videos circulated in the days following Good\u2019s death show immigration agents tackling and chemically gassing students and staff at Minneapolis Roosevelt High School, as well as firing tear gas, pepper balls and stun grenades at protesters. The footage raised further questions about whether field agents are adhering to ICE policies that prioritize de-escalation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Those concerns were reinforced by a recent NBC News report that an error within ICE\u2019s recruiting process allowed an unknown number of untrained officers to be deployed to the field. According to the report, applicants\u2019 resum\u00e9s are scanned by an AI tool and sorted based on law enforcement experience. Applicants with prior careers in law enforcement undergo a four-week online training session, while those with no experience attend an eight-week training course at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The AI tool, however, was programmed to look for the word \u201cofficer\u201d without evaluating context, failing to distinguish between titles such as \u201chouse officer\u201d and \u201cpolice officer.\u201d As a result, a number of inexperienced recruits were placed on active duty with minimal training and no in-person instruction. Officials said those officers are now being identified and sent to the training center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite increasing tension between Minneapolis residents and immigration agents, DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin announced on Jan. 12 that the department would deploy an additional 1,000 Customs and Border Patrol agents to Minnesota, joining the 2,000 ICE agents already sent to the state as part of a December operation known as \u201cOperation Metro Surge\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At a press conference the same day, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the state, along with Illinois, had filed a lawsuit seeking to block the deployment of additional agents and remove the rest from the state. The lawsuit names Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, ICE, DHS and other agencies and officials as defendants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Filed on the grounds that the surge in federal agents \u2014 and their conduct with the public \u2014 violates the First and Tenth Amendments, the lawsuit describes \u201cOperation Metro Surge\u201d as \u201can unprecedented deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents\u2026 [that] has instilled fear among people living, working and visiting the Minneapolis\/Saint Paul metro area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The suit further accuses the administration of sending such a large federal force into the state in order \u201cto punish political opponents and score partisan points\u201d under the pretext of investigating fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Local and national organizers said the killing intensified their efforts.\u201cI can definitely say that the murder has awoken a sleeping giant in the American people,\u201d reflected Mahajan. \u201cIt\u2019s a critical movement to keep building, it\u2019s a critical moment to bring more people in and show what\u2019s possible when we have millions in the streets.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Organizations including Indivisible and 50501 continue to organize weekly demonstrations in San Francisco and the Bay Area alongside smaller local activist groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The next national action, the \u201cFree America Walkout,\u201d organized by Women\u2019s March, is scheduled for Jan. 20 and calls for a mass walkout of students and workers from schools and workplaces. Women\u2019s March described the action as a \u201cprotest and a promise,\u201d adding: \u201cIn the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anti-ICE protests marked the beginning of 2026, with hundreds of San Franciscans joining demonstrations after Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88922,"featured_media":70158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[25229],"class_list":["post-70202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/01072026-ICEKILLINGMARCH-ET-PU-18.jpg?resize=600%2C399&quality=89&ssl=1\")
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