Protests erupted in Minneapolis after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot and killed 37-year-old local resident Renee Nicole McLean Good during an operation aimed at conducting "address checks."
Meduza reports that according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the woman allegedly tried to use her car as a weapon, attempting to run over officers involved in the operation. The department stated that the shooting occurred in self-defense. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen claimed that ICE officers had become stuck in the snow when a group of people began obstructing their actions. She also stated that Good allegedly pursued the officers and refused to leave her vehicle. When she tried to run over one of the officers, he was injured and taken to the hospital. The incident has been described as an “act of domestic terrorism,” and the FBI has opened an investigation.
Videos from the scene, posted on social media, show that an ICE officer opened fire at close range when the car began to move.
According to CNN and the Associated Press, it is unclear whether Good posed an immediate threat at the time of the shooting.
Renee Good was a U.S. citizen and mother of three. Her relatives maintain that she was not an activist and had not participated in protests. On social media, she described herself as a poet and writer. Her death sparked protests across the country, with many participants holding signs reading “Justice for Renee.”
According to Good’s ex-husband, she had just dropped her six-year-old son off at school and was on her way home with her current partner before the confrontation with ICE officers. President Donald Trump, commenting on the incident, stated that the woman acted “extremely aggressively” and “deliberately attempted to run over an officer,” who, he claimed, shot in self-defense. Trump added that the situation was being “fully examined,” but attributed such incidents to ongoing threats from “radical left” groups.
Following Good’s death, protests broke out in Minneapolis calling for the removal of ICE officers from the city, according to the BBC’s Russian Service. Later that evening, hundreds gathered for a memorial rally in her honor. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sharply criticized ICE’s actions, publicly demanding the agency leave the city. “Your stated reason for being here is to ensure safety, but you’re doing the exact opposite—someone has died, and that’s on your conscience,” Frey said.
It is also worth noting that just two days before the incident, the Trump administration announced plans to send around 2,000 additional ICE officers to Minnesota to strengthen efforts against illegal immigration. The shooting took place just south of downtown Minneapolis, less than two kilometers from the site of George Floyd’s killing in 2020.
