January 08, 2026 09:38 AM UTC

Nationwide Shock After Colorado Woman Killed By ICE In Minnesota

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• by: Colorado Pols

Yesterday’s news cycle was brought to a halt by the killing by federal immigration officers of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, who was shot under highly disputed circumstances while video of the incident strongly suggests she posed no threat to officers. 9NEWS reports that Good was a longtime resident of Colorado Springs before relocating to the Twin Cities:

The 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday morning as federal immigration officials conducted a sweeping operation in the city was from Colorado, a family member told 9NEWS.

Renee Nicole Good was killed in the shooting. A cousin told 9NEWS Good was from the Colorado Springs area, and several family members still live in Colorado. Good most recently lived in the Kansas City area, the relative said.

By now, you’ve probably seen the video of Good’s killing from the several available camera angles. We’re not going to post it again here. What we see, and we invite readers to tell us differently if they saw differently, is a driver attempting to leave the area, then being blocked by two agents who didn’t identify themselves, one of whom pulled his weapon and fired while the driver was turning right at slow speed away from the officers. Good appears to accelerate after being shot multiple times and then immediately crashes, suggesting she wasn’t in control of her vehicle after shots were fired.

Despite this clear video evidence that Good posed no threat and was shot in cold blood, the Trump administration rushed to defend their agents, with Donald Trump offering what we can only describe as a totally fictional account of what happened:

Anyone who watched the video knows that this description of the event is not just false but just plain nonsensical. No one was “run over,” and the ICE agent is seen calmly re-holstering his weapon and walking down the street uninjured after the shooting. We honestly don’t know how anyone could watch the video and come to these bizarre conclusions. But once Trump had set the tone, Vice President JD Vance, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and other top administration officials quickly followed:

Noem said at a press conference Wednesday that the victim “attacked” the ICE officers and attempted to run them over with her car, characterizing the officer that killed her as having acted in self-defense.

But [John] Sandweg, who ran ICE during the Obama administration, said the administration’s argument does a “disservice” to Good, her family and the credibility of Noem’s department.

“First of all, the information you get, even at the department, the initial information, is almost always wrong. … There is no way that you can make those conclusions, that this was an act of domestic terrorism, that this woman was targeting ICE agents,” he noted.

CNN reports that career law enforcement officials are shocked by both the administration’s sweeping statements before any facts were known and the actions of ICE agents leading up to the shooting:

Multiple Department of Homeland Security officials privately expressed shock Wednesday over the department’s immediate response to the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, seeing it as a break from precedent that generally points to an investigation before reaching a firm conclusion.

Multiple current and former Homeland Security officials initially privately questioned the officer’s conduct, though cautioned that the preceding events remained unclear and stressed that an investigation was necessary…

Generally, ICE policy says deadly use of force is only warranted if the subject poses an imminent threat of serious injury and or death. Flight of a vehicle doesn’t typically constitute deadly force. ICE officers are trained to approach a vehicle by forming what’s known as a “tactical L” to avoid being in front of the vehicle and prevent injury.

Needless to say, the gap between the Trump administration’s version of events and the reality millions of Americans saw on yesterday’s gruesome video is very wide here–perhaps wider than it has ever been, even for a President and a political movement that has shown little if any deference to commonly accepted reality when it is in conflict with their agenda. Attempting to recast this single mom from Colorado Springs as a violent domestic terrorist simply doesn’t make sense–and if it does, then truly anyone can be denied their most fundamental rights by being branded as such.

Unless the administration blinks under the growing pressure and admits the possibility that an ICE agent can make a mistake, another dangerous precedent is being set.