New excuse to attack Trump – A woman is dead in Minneapolis after a shooting involving immigration officers

A bullet hole is seen in the windshield of a vehicle involved in a shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on Wednesday in Minneapolis.
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A woman is dead in Minneapolis after a shooting involving immigration officers, who were conducting targeted operations in Minneapolis on Wednesday. A statement from the Dept of Homeland Security said that “violent rioters weaponized” a vehicle and attempted to run over officers.

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” the statement said.

The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis is being remembered as a loving mother and partner whose family is shocked by the circumstances surrounding her death.

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, was killed when an ICE agent shot into her vehicle during an encounter Wednesday morning.

The shooting took place on a snow-lined street where an ICE vehicle had gotten stuck, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A “mob of agitators that were harassing them,” blocked them in and attempted to impede their efforts, Noem said.

One of those vehicles was being driven by the victim, who proceeded to “weaponize her vehicle” in an attempt to run over an officer before he opened fire, Noem said.

While Noem defended the agent’s actions, state and local officials strongly disputed claims that the shooting – which was caught on video – was done in self-defense.

The shooting has spiked already-heightened tensions in Minneapolis, where around 2,000 federal agents were deployed this week as part of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. The deployment came on the heels of accusations of welfare fraud in the Somali immigrant community raised by a conservative content creator on YouTube.

The ICE agent firing as the car pulls away
Photo: ‘The New York Post’

Who was Renee Nicole Good?

Renee Nicole Good lived in the Twin Cities with her partner, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported citing her mother, Donna Ganger.

Good was a mother to a 6-year-old child whose father died in 2023, according to the Star Tribune. “There’s nobody else in his life,” the child’s grandfather told the newspaper.

Renee Nicole Good
Photo: ‘The New York Post’

Good spent most of her life in Colorado and briefly moved to Kansas to live with her parents for a time after her husband – a military veteran – died, her father Tim Ganger told The Washington Post.

A former neighbor in Kansas told CNN affiliates KCTV and KMBC Good and her family “were lovely.”

She is “a neighbor who, you know, is not a terrorist. Not an extremist,” Joan Rose told KMBC. “That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse.”

Good attended Old Dominion University in Virginia, graduating in 2020 with an English degree, the school said in a statement.

Shooting scene becomes site of vigil

Hours after the shooting, throngs of neighbors gathered at a vigil near the scene to remember Good and express their outrage at what happened.

The group surrounded a makeshift shrine of flowers and candles and, at one point, chanted Good’s name.

“Say it once. Say it twice. We will not put up with ICE,” they also chanted. Some carried signs with messages such as “Killer ICE off our streets.”

…The death of George Floyd at the hands of police and the mass protests across America played a huge role in Trump's loss of the 2020 presidential election.

Today, the murder of Nicole Good could play the same role. A large number of Americans in the United States are opposed to Trump. Now they have a serious reason to attack him again.

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