A woman identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen with a six-year-old child, was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis yesterday. Here's what we know.
What happened in Minneapolis
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told the press that “a woman attacked” officers and “attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.” However, CNN notes that bystander video shows a less definitive picture, and exactly what happened is still unclear.
Video of the shooting shows officer shooting directly at the car window
According to video reviewed by CNN, officers can be seen approaching Good's car, repeatedly yelling: “Get out of the car,” as they approach her driver-side door. One officer starts pulling the door while another moves in front of the vehicle, and Good starts to reverse. She then moves the car forward, and the officer in front of the car fires once, then moves quickly to the side. Once out of the vehicle's path, he fires twice more. The vehicle can then be seen accelerating before crashing.
In an incredibly distressing video highlighted by HuffPost, a man can be heard begging to approach the car after the shooting, explaining: "I'm a physician." A man can be heard replying: "I don't care."
What we know about Renee Nicole Good
Good reportedly lived in the Twin Cities with her partner. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, she was mother to a six-year-old child whose father, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., died in 2023.
A report from the Associated Press later confirmed that Good also has two older children, aged 12 and 15, from her first marriage. She and her wife had recently moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City, Missouri. On social media, she described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.”
Macklin’s father, Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., told the Tribune that the youngest child has "nobody else in his life,” adding: “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”
Good's mother, Donna Granger, spoke to the Minnesota Star Tribune about her daughter.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate.”
“She’s taken care of people all her life,” Ganger added. “She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Good's father, Tim Granger, told the Washington Post: “She had a good life, but a hard life,” adding: “She was a wonderful person.”
Noem doubles down
Noem has reiterated her support of the agents involved in the shooting, claiming that Good tried to “weaponize her vehicle” in an attempt to run the agent down.
"This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism,” she said, adding the ICE officer fired “defensive shots.”
He “used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues,” she said.
“I do believe that this officer used his training in this situation and will let the FBI continue the investigation to get it resolved,” she added.
... And Trump backs her up
President Trump has backed up Noem's version of events and blamed the incident on the "Radical Left," preempting any investigation.
During a scheduled interview with the New York Times, Trump insisted: “I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either.”
When pressed by the NYT over the fact that the exact circumstances of the shooting were still unclear, and the footage is vague, he said of Good: “She behaved horribly... And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over —”
He later posted on Truth Social: “I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” he added.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has accused the Trump administration of "gaslighting" the public about the shooting. In a post to X, she wrote: “Many of us have seen the horrifying and painful video, which makes it clear that the Trump administration’s explanation of this shooting is pure gaslighting. A full and fair investigation at the state level is absolutely necessary.”
The response from Minneapolis officials
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected Noem's claim that the shooting was in self-defense as "bulls***," and told ICE agents to “get the f*** out of Minneapolis.” Gov. Tim Walz said he has been “warning for weeks” that ICE operations were a “threat to our public safety.”
He said we are seeing “the consequences of governance designed to generate fear."
Police Chief Brian O'Hara said: "It's obviously very concerning whenever there's a shooting into a vehicle of someone who is not armed."
The wider picture
Protests have erupted in multiple states, and people have gathered at the site of the shooting to honor Good's life in a vigil. They've chanted: “Say it once. Say it twice. We will not put up with ICE.”
