A disingenuous take at best, at worst a blatant lie manufactured to defend the shooting of Good (who can be seen in video footage steering away from the ICE agent in question), Trump’s inflammatory statement added fuel to what was already a hotly-burning fire.
Minneapolis city officials, politicians, and community members strongly disagreed with the federal account.
Members of the Minneapolis City Council issued a statement calling Good “a member of our community” and demanding accountability.
“This morning an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a member of our community,” the council said. “Anyone who kills someone in our city deserves to be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Speaking to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Good’s mother, Donna Granger, described her late daughter as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
“She was extremely compassionate,” Ganger told the Tribune. “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
A woman who claimed to have lived across the street from Good and her partner in Kansas City described the couple as quiet homebodies who lived with a young son and didn’t appear to be activists.
This runs contrary to other reports suggesting that Good was an activist who was intentionally attempting to obstruct ICE agents attempting to serve the interests of the federal government. The NY Post today described Good as ‘an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.’
“I can’t see this having been like a premeditated thing on their part, and I think it’s just senseless,” Jennifer Ferguson, who said she lived across the street from Good and her partner for a year and a half, told NBC News.
“I just pray that we don’t have more violence over it.”
A friend of Good’s partner, meanwhile, told NBC News that the couple moved to Minneapolis last summer, having lived in Canada for a time after leaving Kansas City in 2024.