Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7 in Minneapolis as she drove home after dropping her young son at school. Her death has sent shockwaves across the United States, igniting grief, anger, and protests, and has become a national flashpoint in the ongoing debate over law enforcement accountability.
Demonstrations erupted in multiple cities, as critics questioned both the actions of the immigration officer involved and the official narrative surrounding the incident.
From the start, public officials and political figures framed the shooting in contrasting ways. The Trump administration, including former President Donald Trump, defended the agent and placed blame on Good. In a post on Truth Social shortly after the incident, Trump described the situation as if Good had been the aggressor:
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing, and resisting, who then violently, wilfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
Federal officials echoed this framing, with the Secretary of Homeland Security calling Good a “domestic terrorist” and claiming she instigated the confrontation by attempting to strike the officer with her vehicle.
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