An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a United States citizen, on Wednesday amid a large-scale federal immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The shooting has sparked protests, vigils, and outrage, with thousands gathering at the scene, marking an escalation in tensions over the Trump administration’s deployment of over 2,000 agents to the Twin Cities area.
The incident occurred in south Minneapolis when agents approached Good’s SUV during operations. Federal officials claim she attempted to run over officers with her vehicle, justifying the shooting as self-defence.
However, local leaders strongly dispute this account. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, citing video evidence, described the federal narrative as false and demanded ICE leave the city immediately.
“This is bullst,” Frey said at a press conference. “I have a message for our community, our city, and ICE — to ICE, get the fk out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, calling the deceased driver “very disorderly” and someone who “viciously ran over the ICE Officer.”
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defence,” Trump wrote.
The president blamed “radical left” rhetoric for the shooting.
“The reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” he added. “They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Good’s actions as “an act of domestic terrorism” and defended the officer’s actions.
“An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot to protect himself and the people around him,” she said, adding that ICE operations would continue in Minnesota despite the controversy.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed the woman “weaponised her vehicle,” saying the ICE agent escalated the situation because he was “fearing for his own life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement, and the safety of the public.”
Vice President JD Vance said agents were going to “work even harder” after the woman was shot.
“I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them,” he said. “To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we’re going to work even harder to enforce the law.”
Harrowing footage from the scene showed Good’s wife in tears over the shooting death, as she admitted encouraging Good to confront agents.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she could be heard saying through tears. “They just shot my wife.”
The distraught wife also mentioned their six-year-old child.
“That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do,” she wailed. “I have a six-year-old at school… we’re new here, we don’t have anyone.”
Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, denied reports that her daughter would have been “part of anything like” the protests against ICE that were taking place at the location where she was killed.
“That’s so stupid,” she told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
The distraught mother added that her daughter “was probably terrified.”
Video from the scene showed Good apparently ignoring ICE agents’ demands to get out of her car, and instead reversing her vehicle as she tried to drive off.
The video began with the victim blocking the road with her car until ICE agents told her to move away. She then reversed to head back down the road as an agent tried to open its driver-side door handle before she drove off.
Three shots then rang out.
At that point, Good lost control of the SUV and slammed it into parked cars and a light pole at high speed, prompting screams of shock from horrified onlookers. Her SUV was seen with a bullet hole through the driver’s side windshield.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said nothing indicated that “this woman was the target of a law enforcement investigation.”
Witnesses have claimed Good and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot three times in the face.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz asked his citizens to “remain calm” as he slammed DHS’s narrative as “propaganda.”
“The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice,” he wrote on Twitter. “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”
Walz has since warned that the Minnesota National Guard is preparing for deployment to Minneapolis.
“We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary,” he said. “Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait.”
He then addressed President Trump and DHS Secretary Noem directly.
“You’ve done enough. We do not need any further help from the federal government,” he said. “What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict.”
Good was a poet and a mother of three children who grew up in Colorado Springs. She was previously married to a comedian named Timothy Macklin who died in 2023.
She and Macklin had one child together, a six-year-old son, who is now orphaned. His paternal grandfather told the Star-Tribune “there’s nobody else in his life.”
“I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild,” he said.
Photos of the woman’s car in the aftermath showed children’s toys inside, including a plush animal and a child’s drawing.
Protesters gathered near the scene of the shooting, where some were seen throwing snowballs at ICE officers. Others took to the streets waving flags that read “FTP,” standing for “F**k The Police.” Some were also seen burning the American flag, as others held them upside down.
Videos shared online also showed ICE and other federal agents dousing protesters with tear gas and pepper spray.
The FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are now investigating the shooting.
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