A US citizen and mother of three was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on a snowy Minneapolis street as she tried to drive away from agents during what Homeland Security called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever conducted in the Twin Cities. The killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good has sparked protests across American cities and marks at least the fifth death tied to immigration sweeps since President Donald Trump took office.
Video footage captured by bystanders shows an ICE officer approaching Ms Good's car, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle before another officer fired at least two shots into the vehicle at close range as she pulled forward. The shooting occurred on Wednesday, the second day of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and St Paul. Ms Good, a poet born in Colorado with no prior law enforcement charges beyond a traffic ticket, had just dropped her six-year-old son at school and was driving with her partner when they encountered the agents.
Northern Ireland connection
A Northern Ireland pastor who worked with Ms Good during her 2006 mission trip to the country expressed deep shock at her death. Reverend James Hyndman, a minister at First Presbyterian Church in Coleraine who previously served in Saintfield, told the Press Association: «She was a lovely, lovely girl.»
Ms Good spent the summer of 2006 in Northern Ireland as a religious missionary from Village Seven Presbyterian Church in Colorado. «She would have probably been about 17, 18, I think, whenever she came to us,» Reverend Hyndman said. «A quiet-natured girl, very creative, a very compassionate person and very quickly and easily built relationships with children and young people. She was a lovely girl.»
He described her mission work: «She loved to build relationships and I suppose she was here experiencing what life in Northern Ireland was like, and for young people in Northern Ireland giving them an idea of what life was like in other places, that kind of intercultural experience.»
«She still has friendships here right across Northern Ireland, people who remember and would still be in touch with her, and I think everybody's just deeply, deeply shocked and stunned at the tragedy of all of this,» Reverend Hyndman said.
Reactions and protests
Reflecting on the news and footage of Ms Good's shooting, Reverend Hyndman said: «It's a surreal experience to see someone that you knew and lived alongside for a few months whose life has ended so tragically, it really is.» He added: «Our hearts go out to her family at this time and our thoughts and prayers are with them.»
US Vice-President JD Vance blamed "a left-wing network," Democrats, the media and Ms Good herself for her death. Protests erupted Thursday night in Minneapolis and expanded to numerous large American cities. Demonstrators marched through Minneapolis chanting «Ice out now» and carrying signs reading «killer ice off our streets».
On social media, Ms Good described herself as a «poet and writer and wife and mom».
Note: This article was created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
