A federal immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in south Minneapolis on Wednesday, unleashing mass anger across the city and nationwide and exposing the violent and lawless character of the Trump administration’s deportation apparatus. The woman has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good.

Donna Ganger, Good’s mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.” She added, “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

The paper reported that Good was previously married to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr. who died in 2023 at the age of 36. Good and Macklin had a child together, a young son who is now parentless. Speaking of his grandson to the paper, Timmy Ray Macklin Sr. said, “There’s nobody else in his life. I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”

Video of the shooting, portions of which have circulated widely on social media, directly contradicts claims by Trump officials that Good attempted to “weaponize” her vehicle and commit “domestic terrorism.” In the opening seconds of the footage, Good, who was apparently acting as a legal observer according to Rep. Ilhan Omar, is seen with her driver’s window down, gesturing for federal vehicles to pass her. The video shows an ICE vehicle drive by, demonstrating that she is not blocking traffic and is not impeding any operation.

Even though Good continues to gesture for the vehicles to pass her, one truck stops and masked ICE agents approach her. Only after masked federal agents attempt to enter her vehicle does she attempt to first back up and then drive away. A single agent approaches her vehicle from the front, draws his weapon and fires one shot through her windshield. The vehicle’s front wheels are visibly turned to the right, away from the officer, indicating an effort to steer clear of him.

As the SUV continues to move right and away, the same agent fires again while standing at a right angle to the vehicle through the driver’s side window, not in the path and in no danger. He fires a third time from the side again.

After being shot, it appears that Good lost consciousness; the vehicle accelerated and crashed into a parked vehicle and a utility pole. Following the shooting, Good’s wife, who was a passenger in the vehicle, exited the car and suffered a panic attack. Miraculously, no bystanders appear to have been injured in the collision.

The shooting immediately provoked mass anger in the community. Community members quickly gathered and confronted the ICE agents, characterizing them as “murderers.”

Federal agents responded with violence. Eyewitness Emily Heller told the Minnesota Reformer that federal officers deployed chemical munitions against community members and reporters who gathered at the scene. Photos and videos show ICE agents directly shooting protesters in the face with “less lethal” rounds.

Heller said that after Good was shot, agents refused to allow a man who identified himself as a physician to reach her to provide medical aid. Emergency medical personnel did not arrive for approximately 15 minutes. Once they did, Heller said it took about five minutes to determine that Good was dead.

According to Heller, federal agents blocked the ambulance from accessing the street. Rather than bringing a stretcher, they placed Good’s body in a bag and removed her. “They took her like a sack of fucking potatoes,” she said.

Heller said the woman was part of a group protesting ICE operations in the city. Some 2,000 immigration Gestapo have been deployed to Minneapolis as part of Trump’s mass deportation operation and ongoing efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.

Ignoring video evidence, the Trump administration moved immediately to brand the killing as justified. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X that “one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle” and claimed the shooting was a defensive act that “saved” officers’ lives. Stephen Miller characterized the woman’s actions as “domestic terrorism,” as did DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference.

Trump personally intervened to justify the killing, issuing a statement that repeats and escalates the false federal narrative and openly endorses the actions of the shooter.

“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” Trump wrote. He claimed that “the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.” He asserted that the agent “seems to have shot her in self defense.”

These claims are directly contradicted by the video itself, which shows the woman gesturing for federal vehicles to pass, attempting to steer away from the officer and being shot from the side as she was driving away. No federal agents are shown injured in the video. No officer is visibly struck by the vehicle in any of the footage that has been made public.

Trump went further, attempting to criminalize all opposition to federal immigration raids, claiming that “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 concluded by demanding that the population “stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers.”

Trump’s statement is a direct political signal to federal agents, acting as Trump’s personal paramilitary force, that lethal violence will be defended and rewarded by the White House.

Minneapolis Police, who are nominally barred from participating in federal immigration operations, deployed in force to the area and facilitated the removal of the ICE agents from the scene. The murderer has not been publicly identified, arrested or charged.

The shooting occurred only a few blocks from where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police in May 2020. That killing, captured on video, triggered mass protests in the US and internationally against police violence. Those protests were diverted into the dead-end channels of the Democratic Party and identity politics, leaving intact the capitalist system and its repressive apparatus.

The Minneapolis killing follows other lethal shootings by federal immigration agents in the past year, none of which have resulted in criminal prosecutions.

In September 2025, ICE agents shot and killed Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old father of two, in the Chicago area during a traffic stop linked to a federal enforcement operation. Federal authorities claimed the killing was justified. No agent has been charged.

On New Year’s Eve 2025, an off-duty ICE officer shot and killed Keith Porter, a 43-year-old father of two, in Los Angeles. The family and community members disputed official claims that the shooting was justified. No charges have been filed.

Now, in Minneapolis, a masked federal agent has shot an unarmed woman in broad daylight, been allowed to leave the scene, and remains unidentified and uncharged.