ICE officer shoots and kills Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis

Time reports that on Jan. 7, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed inside her vehicle by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.

Good, a white 37-year-old mother of three, was described by loved ones as "one of the kindest people," "compassionate," and a "devoted Christian." She was killed less than a mile from where George Floyd died in 2020. The piece says Good appears to have left that afternoon intending to serve as a legal observer and seems never to have been charged with anything more serious than a traffic violation. Vice President J.D. Vance publicly defended the ICE agent’s actions as self-defense, and, according to The New York Times, Good’s killing marks the ninth shooting by an ICE officer since September.

The article frames the incident as part of a clash between Americans who see protest as a democratic duty and those who treat dissent as a threat, and argues that a hardened, organized backlash has been empowered under President Donald Trump’s second term. Despite fears that force will quell dissent, thousands of protesters still took to public spaces across the country after Good’s death. The author warns the nation’s future is uncertain but says some Americans will continue to fight for one another.

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Politics, Renee Nicole Good, Ice, Minneapolis, George Floyd, Donald Trump