Hundreds of protesters convened near the site of a fatal shooting of a driver by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday to commemorate the victim and decry the violence by federal agents.
“I’m sad, but I’m mostly furious,” Noah, an organizer at Twin Cities Coalition for Justice and speaker at the Minneapolis demonstration, said. “I want to extend my deepest condolences and my heart to the family of Renee Good, they lost someone who truly cared and somebody who deserved to live a long and full life and ICE took that today. Shame!”
Earlier that day, the Department of Homeland Security said that an ICE agent had fatally shot a woman, who has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, as the Trump administration has surged hundreds of federal officers into the state of Minnesota. DHS has claimed that the shots were fired in self-defense as Good allegedly tried to run an agent over during an ICE operation, a narrative that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed as “bullshit.”
As HuffPost’s Ryan Grenoble reported, video of the incident from bystanders appears to undercut DHS’s claim and shows the woman reversing, turning her vehicle to leave and pulling forward when an agent fires at her. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said that Good, a U.S. citizen, was a “legal observer” of ICE’s actions.
