Justice for Renee Nicole Good

Renee Nicole Good should have made it home alive. Instead, she was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday during an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis. Our hearts ache for Renee’s family, friends, and loved ones.

What happened to Renee was not an accident. It was the foreseeable result of Donald Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown, where armed federal agents operate in our neighborhoods with sweeping authority and little accountability. When enforcement is driven by intimidation instead of humanity, the outcome is violence—and Renee paid the price.

By Wednesday evening, the shock turned into grief and fury as thousands of people gathered across Minneapolis in candlelight vigils, filling streets and public spaces to say her name, hold one another, and make clear that this violence will not be accepted in silence. The size of those vigils spoke volumes. An entire community rose up because they recognized that this was not just a tragedy for one family, but a warning for all of us.

Those vigils told the truth officials refuse to confront: Renee was more than a headline. She was a daughter, a friend, a loved one. Her family described her as an amazing human being—a person with a life, relationships, and a future that mattered deeply. Her death ripped a hole through the lives of the people who loved her, and through a city now forced to grieve while federal agencies hide behind statements and procedures.

No one should be killed during an immigration enforcement action. No one. Not in Minneapolis. Not anywhere. The normalization of armed agents taking a life and moving on as if it’s routine is a moral failure. It is what happens when cruelty is elevated to policy and accountability is treated as optional.

People are standing together because they understand something fundamental: if this can happen to Renee, it can happen to anyone caught in the path of unchecked power. The grief pouring into the streets is also a refusal—a refusal to accept that this is normal, and a refusal to let her name fade quietly away.

Justice for Renee Nicole Good means remembering who she was, honoring the pain of her family, friends, and loved ones, and standing together against the brutality that made her death possible. Add your name to stand with Renee’s community and to say, clearly and collectively: this should never have happened, and it must never happen again.