An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed legal observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday January 7.
The Guardian reports: “A witness to the incident, Emily Heller, told local media that the victim was shot in the face multiple times. Heller said she saw a car blocking traffic that appeared to be part of a protest against the ICE operation, and heard an agent telling the driver, a woman, to ’get out of here’.”
The article continues: “‘She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in – like his midriff was on her bumper – and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,’ Heller told MPR News, a Minneapolis public radio station.”
NBC News adds: “A 37-year-old woman was fatally shot by an ICE agent today after a group of people began blocking officers during an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security said.”
BBC News video still of the shooting.
Representative Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota) says: “ICE’s actions today were unconscionable and reprehensible. I am beyond outraged that their reckless, callous actions led to the killing of a legal observer in Minneapolis. …This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.”
And Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says: “What [ICE is] doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people.” Frey said he had a message for ICE: “Get the f— out of Minneapolis.”
The Guardian article further notes: “The Immigration Defense Network, a coalition of groups serving immigrants in Minnesota, held a training session Tuesday night for about 100 people who are willing to hit the streets to monitor the federal enforcement.”
The Immigration Defense Network’s website has previously highlighted: “The IDN’s rapid response strategy includes maintaining helpline infrastructure, deploying observers, and organizing public demonstrations.”
This evening, the Associated Press reports: “As the sun set over Minneapolis, the crowd stood at the intersection where the motorist was killed just before a vigil was set to start. Most were quiet. Some held profanity-laced signs against ICE, waving Mexican flags or sporting keffiyeh scarves. A few blocks north, cars and improvised barricades blocked the main avenue.”
And USA Today now reports: “A vigil to recognize the woman shot by an immigration agent started at 5 p.m. at the site of the incident on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. Close to 1,000 people were in attendance as of 5:30 p.m. The crowd chanted the woman’s name, Renee Good, and called for immigration authorities to leave Minneapolis, saying ‘ICE out now.’”
The New York Times reports that the shooting of Renee Nicole Good “is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September.”
ICE and Canadian armoured vehicle company
Last month, CBC News reported: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb blasts.”
BNN Bloomberg further reported: “[Member of Parliament Jenny Kwan says] she’s ‘deeply’ and ‘profoundly’ troubled because the ICE agency has been credibly accused of human rights abuses. …Kelsey Gallagher from Project Ploughshares, a non-governmental organization that promotes peace, said if the vehicles were sold to any other security service in the world with the same documented pattern of abuse, Ottawa likely would step in to stop it.”
BNN Bloomberg reported that ICE awarded the contract to Roshel on November 28, 2025, with ICE declaring that Roshel would complete the order within 30 days. That would place the delivery of these armoured vehicles to ICE just prior to the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota.
Video still: Roshel at the CANSEC 2025 arms show in Ottawa.
